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TV DVD Review

The Drew Carey Show - The Complete First Season

by Dan MacIntosh

[13.Jun.07] :. Just like its lead character, The Drew Carey Show took on an unassuming, gentle spirit. His is the kind of character most average Americans would gladly have a beer with.

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Comedy Central Roast of William Shatner (Uncensored)

by Jeremy Estes

[13.Apr.07] :. The show has comic moments (commenting on Shatner's weight gain, Ross says, "You have let yourself boldly go"), but the roast isn't so much funny as it is forced.

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Hostage (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Jun.05] :. More disturbingly, Hostage is about the failure of certainty.

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Film Review

Hostage (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Mar.05] :. The crisis begins with a clash between rich people and a trio of conventionally coded 'delinquents'.

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Juwanna Mann (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Jun.02] :. It's no longer critiquing mainstream expectations, but instead, absorbing and reflecting stereotypes, drained of context.

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Juwanna Mann (2002)

by Noreen Sait

[20.Jun.02] :. Like its men-in-drag predecessors, Juwanna Mann doesn't critique gender stereotypes, so much as it uses them to espouse a morality lesson.

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End of Days (1999)

by Tobias Peterson

Hollywood's most recent millennial offering is End of Days, the latest in a long line of apocalyptic visions that have seen the planet threatened by the likes of aliens, asteroids, tidal waves, even bats.

 

End of Days (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Do you ever wonder what Arnold thinks about himself? Is he proud of his lunkhead-robot self-image? Is he aware of how demented he looks when he smiles on a wide screen? Does he ever fret that people - even his fans - see him as a guy version of the dumb blond, rippled and well-posed?"

 

Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Early in Dr. Dolittle 2, the good doctor (Eddie Murphy) appears on TV. Apparently, after the first movie, where he was outed as a freak who can talk to animals, he’s now capitalizing on...

 

Deterrence (1998)

by Todd R. Ramlow

Deterrence, Rod Lurie's directorial debut, two years in the works, repeats the many overworked cliches of the nuclear paranoia pics of the early '80s, but comes nowhere near the achievement of kiddie classics like War Games, Fail Safe, The Longest Day, or even the melodramatic made-for-TV event, The Day After.

 

Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001)

by Ben Varkentine

The last 'Dolittle' film was a successful commercial film. The trouble is, the sequel is a far less noble beast. Many of the beats (and beasts) from the first film are here too, but despite being written by Larry Levinson, one of the co-authors of the first script, it just doesn't work as well.