Bewitched
February 10, 2006
The big screen version of Bewitched (2005) has had a checked past, mostly spent in development hell as many screenwriters and filmmakers took a stab at trying to get it made. Nora Ephron and her sister Delia finally got it off the ground with their self-reflexive...
The Apartment: Collector’s Edition
February 9, 2006
The Apartment (1960) features the misadventures of C.C. “Bud” Baxter (Lemmon), an anonymous office drone working at a large insurance company in New York City. He loans out his apartment several nights a week to his bosses and their dates in the hopes...
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
February 5, 2006
Ya-Ya! Oh, wait. Wrong movie. It’s true, the comparisons between The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005) and The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002) are unavoidable. Think of the former as a teen version of the latter. Both examine the...
Pretty Woman: 15th Anniversary Special Edition
February 2, 2006
Pretty Woman (1990) is the film that transformed Julia Roberts into a superstar and made her America’s sweetheart, a mantle she took away from Meg Ryan who had held it a year earlier and would lose to Sandra Bullock a few years later. Considering the...
Fever Pitch: Cursed Reversed Edition
February 2, 2006
Unlike fellow Saturday Night Live alumni Will Farrell, Jimmy Fallon has yet to make the successful jump from television to movies. He showed promise with his small (and almost unrecognizable) role in Almost Famous (2000) and then completely wasted it...
Annie Hall
January 31, 2006
Prior to Annie Hall (1977), Woody Allen was known as a comic, cutting his teeth in stand-up comedy and paying his dues as a comedy writer. When he started making films, his early efforts were flat-out comedies and farces like Bananas (1971). It wasn’t...
Le notti bianche
January 30, 2006
When Fyodor Dostoyevsky was 27 years old, he wrote a series of columns for the Saint Petersburg Gazette. They were short pieces about his observations on city life and were eventually published as the Petersburg Chronicle. Luchino Visconti’s Le notti...
The Wedding Date
January 28, 2006
The problem that faces a lot of TV actors is making the jump from the small screen to the big one. Quite often they are so closely identified with the show they’re on because you can see them on it all the time. In the case of Debra Messing, who is...
A Very Long Engagement
January 19, 2006
After the phenomenal success of Amélie (2001), Jean-Pierre Jeunet could have played it safe. Instead, he parlayed that success into an ambitious romantic tale set against the backdrop of World War I. A Very Long Engagement (2004) reunites Jeunet with...
Vital Signs
December 21, 2005
Made in 1990, Vital Signs still carries residual of the ‘80s with its cheesy soundtrack. The film follows the trials and tribulations of several third year medical students as they compete for limited internships and to do so they have to earn enough...
