Take note silent film fans and devotees of comedy, silent or not. Milestone has released a sterling collection of short silent films featuring Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle in two of its three selections. Arbuckle had a brilliant and lucrative career as a top box office attraction that ended when he was tried for causing the death… Read More »
2003 GOLDEN RASPBERRY AWARDS
Celebrating 23 years of performing its valuable public service, the Razzie Awards once again helped to make up for the wasted time and insulted intelligence we as moviegoers were forced to endure in 2002. John Wilson, founder and Head Raspberry of the Golden Raspberry Awards Foundation, along with his merry band of muckracking mirthmakers, gave… Read More »
BRUCE ALMIGHTY
Jim Carrey wants it both ways. He wants to be the heir apparent to The Three Stooges, but he also wants to tug at our heartstrings. Until now, hes divided those aspirations between films, the silliness of ME, MYSELF, AND IRENE and the carefully calibrated corn of THE MAJESTIC. Perhaps sensing that his audience has… Read More »
SHAUN OF THE DEAD
SHAUN OF THE DEAD is a crisp and lethally funny blend of B-movie monsters and those “kitchen sink” dramas from Britain’s theatrical renaissance of the late 50s and early 60s. Our angry young man is the Shaun (Simon Pegg) of the title, a feckless drone with a dead-end job that is a daily, even hourly… Read More »
LEMONY SNICKET’S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS
When I heard that Jim Carrey would be starring in A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS, based on the first three installments of the deliciously arch and ironic series of the same name by Lemony Snicket, my heart sank. Obviously, I thought, it was doomed to be a vehicle for Carreys brand of broad physical humor… Read More »
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000, VOL 6
It is conventional wisdom that there are some films that are so bad that they?re good. And it?s a given that, with few exceptions, say GIGLI, which stunned the press audience with whom I endured it into a stunned silence, they are just that much more enjoyable when accompanied by a panoply of snide and… Read More »
2005 Razzies
It takes a lot to surprise me when it comes to show business. I am, as the publicists I work with and a fair number of my fellow members of the reviewing corps can tell you, what you’d call jaded. Not to mention bitter and cynical, and the first two months of any cinematic year… Read More »
THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
I am one of those slavish devotees of Douglas Adams’ Hitchhker Trilogy who can, as a result of manic bouts of reading (the books), watching (the BBC television series) and listening (to the original incarnation produced by BBC radio) recite vast swaths of text. It’s a skill that provokes delight in some, consternation in others,… Read More »
THE SIMPSONS MOVIE
THE SIMPSONS MOVIE starts with the Simpson family attending the ITCHY AND SCRATCHY MOVIE, with Homer loudly complaining that he feels like a sucker for paying money to see something that he can see on television for free. Maybe Itchy and Scratchy didn’t push any envelopes, but despite Homer’s literal finger-pointing, this is something you… Read More »
DEFINITELY, MAYBE
DEFINITELY, MAYBE is a romantic comedy with bite as it follows the adventures of Will Hayes, a guy who started out thinking that he had it all figured out, and who, of course, didn’t. Rising above the commonplace and the cliché, it’s wry, smart and just sentimental enough to warm the cockles of an audience’s… Read More »
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