Take The City And Run

The best thing going for North Country is not Charlize Theron or Frances McDormand — although they’re both receiving heavy awards buzz — or Woody Harrelson or Sissy Spacek. The best thing it’s got going for it is director Niki Caro. Her last film, 2003’s Whale Rider, was a quiet gem that proved her […]

The Colbert Réport (don’t pronounce the t’s — “It’s French, bitch!”) premiered Monday night after The Daily Show. And, after only two shows, the newly-enhanced — Colbert was formerly a “correspondent” on The Daily Show — tag-teaming of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert is already proving itself an inspired hourlong coupling.
Tuesday night’s […]

Directed by George Clooney, 2005
viewed October 15, 2005
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“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we […]

Unless you’ve lived under a rock for the last sixty-five years, you’ve heard of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman. They are, indisputably, cultural icons. But they are first and foremost comic book superheroes.
Chances are that most people know DC Comics‘ “Big Three” primarily from mediums other than comic books, but the comic book versions, […]

Directed by Stephen Hopkins, 2004viewed October 11, 2005 [DVD]IMDb listing
Peter Sellers, as portrayed in the HBO film The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers, was a man gifted with the ability to create new and extreme identities for himself, yet unable to maintain his own. Perhaps the conceit is nothing new, but the film is […]

Sadly, Aardman Animation, the studio responsible for the Wallace & Gromit films, burned down. The fire destroyed all the old sets, a tragic loss of history that not even the box-office-topping success of Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit can make up for.
The movie, by the way, is quite good.

My Name Is Earl, when you get right down to the bare bones of it, is a pretty sappy show. Or at least, each of the first three episodes has ended on that sort of note. But what else would you expect from a show for which the premise is that good deeds performed […]

After five years of what was surely tedious, yet fun, production, it’s finally here:Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit
Who can resist perhaps the best comedy duo of the last quarter century? Who knows, maybe the last half century? “Who?” I ask. Communists and evil-doers, that’s who. Oh, and probably people who just […]