The Dust Factory
September 9, 2005
Intelligent movies for young teenagers are hard to come by. They are either hopelessly saccharine Disney-fied movies that no kid could ever relate to or 90-minute product placements. Both types tend to leave little to the imagination. Every so often a...
Charmed: Season 1
August 28, 2005
Charmed could have easily been a simple television retread of The Craft (1996). Instead, it has become, over the years and seven seasons later, a positive representation of smart, beautiful, empowered women. The show quickly dispels the traditional image...
Donnie Darko: The Director’s Cut
August 27, 2005
Donnie Darko (2001) had the misfortune of being released right around the time of 9/11. At the time no one was interested in seeing a strange time travel movie involving a teenage boy who talks to a large rabbit and is almost killed by a jet engine fallen...
Charmed
August 15, 2005
Charmed could have easily been a simple television retread of The Craft (1996). Instead, it has become, over the years and seven seasons later, a positive representation of smart, beautiful, empowered women. The show quickly dispels the traditional image...
Wonderfalls: The Complete Viewer Collection
August 15, 2005
They say that the good die young and this certainly is true of network television. It used to be that a show was given time to find its audience. Cheers had poor ratings its first season but gradually developed an audience and became the beloved classic...
Carnivale: Season 1
June 19, 2005
Carnivale is a TV show that seemingly came out of nowhere and debuted on HBO in 2003. It depicts the struggle between good and evil, light vs. darkness and how they are forever intertwined. This battle takes place during the Depression with its focus...
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
June 14, 2005
At first, it seems like rather an odd choice picking the director of the racy, coming-of-age road movie, Y tu mamá también (2001), to direct the latest Harry Potter movie, The Prisoner of Azkaban (2004). Studios are notoriously protective of their cash...
Pirates of the Caribbean: Special Edition
May 21, 2005
Arrr, mateys! There be something even more deadly than the Curse of the Black Pearl. It is the curse of the dreaded double-dipping! What with losing Pixar in 2006 and the imminent departure of Miramax seemingly any day now, Disney is scrambling to find...
Santa Claus: The Movie
May 1, 2005
Christmas is a time of year that seems to stimulate many a good scribe to churn out a script based around the holiday season. Television will be bombarded with crap Christmas Specials of successful sitcoms, somewhere ‘The Snowman’ will be...
Van Helsing: 2 Disc Special Edition
February 28, 2005
After his financial success with The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, director Stephen Sommers was given free reign by the studios to make anything he wanted. He went off to write a small scale film but came back with the script for Van Helsing which, with...
