Ten ’Til Noon (review)
A man awakens late one morning after sleeping in to discover two armed assassins in his bedroom. Who are they? Who hired them? Why is he a target?
Month: March 2007
Blades of Glory (review)
It’s funny only if you think there is something amusing about men who are anything other than the Hummer-driving, date-raping, ‘hot-blooded’ caricature of a manly man.
The Lookout (review)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is poised to blow away thinking moviegoers with his hugely appealing combination of Keanu Reeves’ quirky good looks, Tobey Maguire’s engaging mopiness, and a Johnny Depp-esque hunger for offbeat, demanding roles.
The Namesake (review)
If you’re not a basketcase of sobby, sloppy tears of sadness and joy by the end of *The Namesake,* then I don’t know what’s wrong with you.
feminist classics of 80s TV: ‘Anything But Love’ and ‘Beauty and the Beast’
Funny how jumbling old TV shows together accidentally, like happens sometimes when they coincidentally get released on DVD around the same time, makes you see connections between them you never expected. Like how a beloved sitcom and a beloved fantasy, both new on DVD but hailing from the late 1980s, could highlight how much ground … more…
Stargate Atlantis: The Complete Second Season (review)
This Sci Fi Channel series has always been a pale shadow of its progenitor, the long-running Stargate SG-1: heavy on action, short on thoughtfulness, it touches on wit, smarts, and true science fiction speculation only momentarily, and sometimes even seemingly accidentally. The adventures of a military, scientific, and exploratory team from modern Earth in a … more…
What’s New Scooby-Doo? Complete 1st Season (review)
As if the original Scooby-Doo show of the late 1960s and early 70s weren’t poor enough an example of pointless cartoonery — not to mention a blight on the collective childhood memory of Generation X — this 2002-3 revival demonstrates just how hollow pop-culture nostalgia can be. Shaggy and Scooby, along Velma, Daphne, and Fred, … more…
Strumpet City (review)
I thought I was up on everything Irish, but I’d never heard of this one, and maybe there’s a reason why. James Plunkett’s 1969 best-selling epic novel was turned into this made-for-Irish-TV miniseries in 1980, the first major production of Ireland’s RTE TV, but honestly, it’s really pretty dull, and dates itself with its slow-moving … more…
The Real Middle Earth (review)
Completeist fans of The Lord of the Rings are the only ones who’ll get much kick out of this dry documentary about author J.R.R. Tolkien and where he may have found inspiration for his fantasy epic. Tolkien scholars discuss the English place names and landmarks the author would have encountered during his childhood in the … more…
Hopeless Pictures (review)
No film is “too small or too depressing” for Hopeles(s) Pictures, the stuggling film studio headed up by Mel Wax (the voice of Michael McKean: For Your Consideration) — that he would bestow this moniker upon his company by conflating the names of his parent’s, Hope and Les, is emblematic of the dual driving force … more…
