Thursday, January 15 2009
OMG - The 20 Worst Films of 2008
There's bad, and then there's 2008 level bad. You know this list is looking down into a deep dark bottomless pit of cinematic despair when Mike Myers' shameful Love Guru didn't even make the Top 20!
Friday, January 9 2009
Bride Wars
Bride Wars is part cautionary tale, part fairy tale, and part Jerry Springer episode, as Liv and Emma's so-called dreams are wholly conventional and their antics are increasingly outrageous.
Monday, October 20 2008
Boston Legal: Season Four
The wacky cases, the liberal bloviating, the plot contrivances would all make this unbearable…but for one of the finest male-to-male friendships ever presented on television.
Friday, September 12 2008
The Women
Despite its title, The Women is not an update of George Cukor's diva smackdown of the same name.
Wednesday, April 16 2008
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
A biography more interested with the whiff of scandal (or even creating it) than documenting the process, survival and impact of an artist dedicated to pursing his vision of the world.
Friday, April 6 2007
Gandhi (25th Anniversary Edition) (1982)
The filmmakers tend to aestheticize, rather than dramatize, Gandhi's politics, but despite its superficialities, Gandhi remains eminently watchable a quarter of a century after its original release.
Tuesday, January 9 2007
Boston Legal - Season 2
Boston Legal, fashioned out of the decaying corpse of The Practice, alternates its vaudevillian cases with ones involving pungent social issues.
Thursday, July 7 2005
Starting Over (1979)
Starting Over captures the sting of loving someone despite knowing he is going to break your heart.
Thursday, May 22 2003
The In-Laws (2003)
Robin Tunney's cool aversion to stereotype is easily The In-Laws' most valuable asset.
