The holiday gift-buying season is definitely upon us and if you are like many holiday shoppers, you are looking at the names your list and wondering what to get them this year. If you
Charlotte’s Web: Instant Classic – Just Add Heart And Stir!
Charlotte's Web is not an easy book to adapt to film – just look at the animated version [which the book's author, E.B. White, hated]. Could a live-action version of the book actually work – especially when there are so many ways it could get screwed up? In a word, yes! Charlotte's Web is a […]
Topicality Keeps NUMB3RS Kicking
NUMB3RS has quietly carved out a comfortable audience in the Friday Night Timeslot of Death [10/9C] by putting a clever spin on the standard procedural – emphasizing family, and not shying away from tough subjects. This week's episode, Killer Chat, is centered around a serial killer who is targeting pedophiles… When it comes to […]
Impossible Missions: Alias: The Complete Fifth Season; Mission: Impossible: The Complete First TV Season
One of the main influences for Alias creator J.J. Abrams was the original Mission: Impossible TV series. It seems somehow fitting, then, that the DVD release of the final season his series should come at virtually the same time as the release of the first season of that classic espionage series. Alias: The Complete Fifth […]
Apocalypto – a Pretty Good Movie – And Not Quite The Bloodbath They’d Have You Believe!
Despite headlines like "Mel Indulges His Bloodlust," there's less blood in Apocalypto tan in two reels of some low-budget, exploitation horror flick like, say, Hostel – and Apocalypto tells a far more interesting [if basic] story… Boiled down to its essence, Apocalypto is the story of one man's attempt to stay alive and save the […]
Celebration of Oneness
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Valentine’s Day Gets Scrooged
Emma Caulfield (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Beverly Hills 90210), Barbara Niven (Murder In My House, Cold Case) and John Reardon (The L Word, Tru Calling) are currently lensing the Insight Films/Ignite
Dead Man’s Chest: Bigger, Broader, Weirder – Even on DVD!
Despite a slow start, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" delivers a rousing – if imminently forgetful [which makes it just as much fun on re-viewings] – ride once it picks up steam… The second entry in the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy finds Captain Jack Sparrow [Johnny Depp] being pressured to live up […]
The Cartoon Network’s Re-Animated Blends Live Action and Animated Silliness To Good Effect!
Jimmy Roberts [Dominic Janes, pictured] lets the world walk all over him in The Cartoon Network's Re-Animated [Friday, 8 p.m./7C]. When an accident necessitates his having a brain transplant, even the cartoon characters created by the legendary Milt Appleday begin to take advantage of his good nature… Unlike Jimmy Roberts, Milt Appleday [Fred Willard] was […]
Anne Archer takes on Judicial Indiscretion
Anne Archer is currently in Vancouver, B. C. lensing the Insight Films legal drama, Judicial Indiscretion. When a candidate for the Supreme Court is raped, should she proceed with her nomination or withdraw? That
TNT Announces Adaptation of Stephen King & Peter Straub’s The Talisman
Following on the heels of their success with epic mini-series like Into The West and Stephen King's Nightmares and Dreamscapes, TNT is now working with Executive Producers Stephen Spielberg and Kathleen King to adapt the epic fantasy, The Talisman [co-written by King and fellow horror legend Peter Straub] as a mini-series for television. The Talisman […]