I’m looking for what you might call a “slow week” in my little corner of the world, so that means that there’ll be no provocative explorations of the Movies That Make You Mad; no I-dare-you-to-disagree rundowns of Tea Party Movies; no…
Read more →John Wayne playing a cowboy? Nobody bats an eye. Cast him as Mongol ruler Genghis Khan? Now you’ve got people talking. Viewers used to take Leslie Nielsen “seriously”…Airplane! and Police Squad! changed all that. If moviegoers were surprised to see comic…
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Have you seen the trailer for the fourth Mission: Impossible film? Many fans of both the original television series and film series star Tom Cruise might be forgiven for heaving a sigh as the chaotic action explodes across the screen—hammering…
Read more →Has anyone ever topped the performance Boris Karloff gave as the Frankenstein Monster? Does anybody out there think Steve Martin was as funny playing Inspector Clouseau as the late, great Peter Sellers? Maybe you thought that once the Shat created the…
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They all have big big-screen credits. But how will Ewan McGregor (he of the Star Wars prequels), Melanie Laurent (she of Inglourious Basterds), and Christopher Plummer (he of…well, just look at his filmography, for cryin’ out loud, it’s astounding) fare…
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There are few things that get me (as Irv’s video producer) jazzed up to see a movie more than a hotly split critical reaction. And, much like the works of Lars von Trier (Oh, I guess it won’t be as fashionable…
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If only. Don’t be fooled: The eighth and final season of Penn and Teller’s saucy and scintillating Showtime program may have made its appearance on home video just a short time ago, marking the end of the popular duo’s televised…
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Woody Allen, who must now be regarded as cinema’s most reliable auteur, is back. This time, Owen Wilson is playing him. Well, maybe let’s just say he’s playing the Woody Allen part. OK, that’s still maybe not quite so fair….
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Everybody out there loved Machete, right? Right??? (Sound of crickets) Well, I certainly loved it, and that makes me more than curious about Hobo with a Shotgun. Rutger Hauer stars as the trigger-happy vagrant in this feature-length expansion of the fake…
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You laughed out loud (or cringed, perhaps depending on your outlook) when he impersonated President George W. Bush; you couldn’t get enough of the dueling between Alex Trebek and Sean Connery every time Celebrity Jeopardy! aired a new episode; you loved…
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