Friday, January 18 2008
27 Dresses
Sweet and nurturing and passive-aggressive, Jane (Katherine Heigl) is yet another movie girl in need of rescue.
Monday, October 8 2007
The TV Set
The TV Set on DVD, with its various articulations of anger and frustration, makes for entertaining therapy; now it's time for Kasdan to let go and love again.
Friday, September 8 2006
The Great New Wonderful (2005)
This 9/11 film is subtle to a fault; this is a quality you may not expect in a film from Danny Leiner, master of the vehicular stoner comedy.
Thursday, August 17 2006
The Great New Wonderful (2005)
Lack of understanding will be a sort of theme for Danny Leiner's film, uneven but full of rewarding subtleties.
Tuesday, February 7 2006
Elizabethtown: Widescreen Special Collector’s Edition (2005)
The DVD of Elizabethtown is called the Widescreen Special Collector's Edition, though there's not one thing special about it.
Tuesday, January 24 2006
Love Monkey
A hip, sophisticated look at the music business and the love lives of four 30-something New York guys is not what you expect from CBS.
Friday, October 14 2005
Elizabethtown (2005)
Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown does not know how to end.
Wednesday, June 22 2005
Cursed: Unrated Version (2004)
'I guess there's no such thing as safe sex with a werewolf,' whines one victim.
Thursday, May 5 2005
The Specials: Specials Edition (2000)
Apparently, the production suffered from ego problems on set, similar to those bothering the characters.
Friday, March 4 2005
Cursed (2004)
Jimmy's golden retriever Zipper bites him and is turned into a spazzy, poorly CGI-ed wolf-dog, capable of ripping their house to pieces.
