Reviews
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
Lesbians, come on, bend yo' wrist like this. Gay folk, come on, bend yo' wrist like this. Bisexuals, come on, let me see you bend yo' wrist. Trisexuals, bend yo' wrist like this. These are lyrics from the closing song in "I Now [...]
Night Train
Set in an indistinct location in a vaguely contemporary time period, "Night Train" features a nightmare journey on what appears to be the Polar Express. On an ethereally snowy night, a mysterious man climbs aboard the titular train without a [...]
The Moody Blues: Threshold Of A Dream
Like Jethro Tull, The Moody Blues receive all the critical acclaim they deserve and they quietly maintain a legion of fans ranging from Baby Boomers on down the generation chain. The Moodies organized themselves in the mid-sixties on a common adhesive [...]
The Echelon Conspiracy
Borrowing ideas from other movies and mindlessly stringing them up in an attempt to create a new movie is typically a bad idea. Just watch any Quentin Tarantino movie and you can witness how ridiculously clueless such "inspired" filmmaking can [...]
Fast Company
When the name David Cronenberg is mentioned, it usually conjures up memories of Jeff Goldblum metamorphosing into a giant insect, James Woods making love to a breathing, pulsating television set, or a man's head exploding. These and countless other [...]
Inside Man
Spike Lee's "Inside Man" concerns a bank robbery. A most unusual bank robbery, in fact. The robbery is organized by Dalton Russell (Clive Owen), who addresses the camera directly at the film's opening to give us the Who, What, When, [...]
Dr. Strangelove
The 1960s was a good decade for director Stanley Kubrick. In fact, it marked the height of his financial and critical success. He opened the decade on a bittersweet note with the sword-and-sandal epic "Spartacus" (1960), the kind of adventurous [...]
The Best of Whose Line Is It Anyway?
The American incarnation of Britain's "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" proved to be a great success for eight seasons from 1998 to 2006. The show, which features four comics participating in games that call for improvisational comedy, offered [...]