Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
December 14, 2003
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004) is the latest salvo in the Lindsay Lohan-Hilary Duff war over the lucrative teenage girl market. Each girl has been cranking out films in response to the other but as we all know from the rules of Thunderdome,...
The Dame Edna Experience: Series 1
December 14, 2003
It’s widely known that most talk shows on television are basically promotional tools for studios, networks, movie stars and musicians to promote their latest movie, TV show or record. What separates The Dame Edna Experience from other talk shows is...
Bad Santa: The Unrated Version
December 13, 2003
Bad Santa (2003), like The Ref (1994) before it, is an anti-Christmas movie. They both gleefully thumb their cynical noses at the fake cheer and manufactured mirth of the holiday season. However, where The Ref betrayed its own misanthropic tendencies...
The Simpsons: Season 4
December 10, 2003
The Simpsons (1989) really hit its stride with the fourth season. Conan O’Brien was a producer and started writing episodes midway through the season. Brad Bird (of The Iron Giant fame) was a co-executive producer and several big time stars (Johnny...
Jackass: The Movie
December 7, 2003
The Jackass Boys are back! If you’re a fan of the MTV show, then you’ll know what this movie is all about; in fact you almost don’t need to read this review. Wait! I said almost! The stunts in this movie are weirder, wilder and more extreme than...
Rock ‘n’ Roll High School
December 2, 2003
Hey Ho! Let’s Go! Listen up, kids. Rock ‘n’ Roll High School may have been released way back in 1979 but it still kicks the ass of any of those square MTV movies. Forget about Britney Spears and Mandy Moore’s brand of bubblegum...
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
November 23, 2003
After more than twenty years of failed attempts and missed opportunities, Terry Gilliam has done what many thought impossible — he fully and faithfully realized Hunter S. Thompson’s classic novel, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, into a wonderfully...
Eight Legged Freaks
November 17, 2003
Small Arizona town invaded by monsters, with a bunch of unwitting heroes sent in to save the day. Cue outrageous deaths of cute animals and dimwitted humans. No, this isn’t Tremors, but a similarly themed tongue-in-cheek B movie this time concerning...
Sweet Home Alabama
November 16, 2003
Hold on to your hats, brush down your denims, and get those cowboy boots out of the closet, cos the South is back! Yes it’s time for another movie from our friends in the Deep South, with their delightful accents and standard Rom Com fare. Melanie...
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
November 14, 2003
What began as a small, autobiographical play about her rigorously traditional Greek family accepting her non-Greek boyfriend into the fold has now become the highest grossing independent film of all time. Initially driven by good ol’ word-of-mouth,...
