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Articles tagged "tim allen" TV DVD ReviewHome Improvement: The Complete Third Seasonby Nikki Tranter[3.Jan.06] :. Home Improvement's third season is its best, as crack-up funny as it is heartfelt.  Film DVD ReviewToy Story: 10th Anniversary Edition (1995)by Jesse Hassenger[5.Oct.05] :. Ten years on, much of Pixar's Toy Story, the first computer-animated feature film, is as sweet and smart as ever.  TV DVD ReviewHome Improvement: The Complete Second Seasonby Nikki Tranter[21.Jul.05] :. Despite his muscle-headed tendencies, it's hard not to love Tim Taylor.  TV DVD ReviewHome Improvement: The Complete First Seasonby Nikki Tranter[10.Jan.05] :. Tim's determination to add 'more power' to every household appliance or gardening tool speaks to his skewed sense of what it means to be a man.  Film ReviewChristmas with the Kranks (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[19.Nov.04] :. Tim Allen needs to stop making Christmas movies.  Film ReviewThe Santa Clause 2 (2002)by Cynthia Fuchs[31.Oct.02] :. Given that it's a generically family/holiday film, The Santa Clause 2 has nothing new to say about anything. Galaxy Quest (1999)by Mike WardRobert Zemeckis's Contact (1997) is without a doubt the finest movie in recent memory to deal with the question of what might be happening to all those rays of media dreck - TV shows, radio programs, and the like - we've been beaming higgledy-piggledy through the cosmos for the last century. Galaxy Quest is almost as certainly the second-finest such recent film, but come to think of it, I can't really recall a third, offhand, so I suppose this might constitute a less-than-ringing endorsement. Galaxy Quest (1999)by Jonathan BellerIn the guise of a spoof of Star Trek, Dean Parisot's cheesy and pleasurable Galaxy Quest delves deeply into the social relation known as fandom. What, the film seems to ask, is a fan?" Joe Somebody (2001)by Cynthia FuchsIt gets points for knowing what it is, a formulaic PG picture without pretensions to grandeur (and for not being 'The Majestic'). Toy Story 2 (1999)by P. Nelson ReinschNear the end of the film The Matrix, Neo (Keanu Reeves) begins to understand his own power. When he realizes that everything he is seeing is a computer program, the payoff shot for this knowledge shows the screen filled with the 1s and 0s which make up the objects and people previously seen. The shot is stunning, and lays bare not only the program within the film's narrative universe, but also the computer work necessary to create the effects in The Matrix. Toy Story 2 (1999)by Jonathan BellerHey kids, if you haven’t seen Toy Story 2, better hurry so that you can find out what your toys are doing when you’re not watching. And maybe you’ll learn to show your toys a... |
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