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Lucy and Ethel
Nia Vardalos made raucous, over-the-top ethnic family drama/comedy seem funny again in My Big Fat Greek Wedding so it comes as little surprise that she would try to make a raucous, over-the-top drag queen drama/comedy seem funny again too. The only problem is that it was never funny before and it's not funny now. More
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Baghdad café
When the United States started bombing Iraq in March 2003, Arab-American filmmaker Jehane Noujaim found herself, along with dozens of other journalists, in the US military's Central Command (Centcom) compound in Qatar. Instead of covering the military assaults occurring 700 miles away, as everyone else did, she trained her camera in the opposite direction- at the journalists reporting the news and the military spokespeople briefing the reporters. More
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What do Magnolia's Quiz Kid Donnie Smith, Fargo's Jerry Lundegaard, and Boogie Nights's Little Bill have in common, other than the obvious fact that they're all portrayed by William H. Macy? Answer: They're all losers. William H. Macy has made a career out of being the loser, but in his latest vehicle, The Cooler, things seem to be turning around for the poor, lovable guy. More
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Poetry in Motion
Before the screening of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, a game show host-voiced announcer told us that the film was like Vertical Limit meets Titanic. Who wants to hear that crap right before you're about to see a potentially kick-ass, beautiful, artistic film? There's enough buzz surrounding Ang Lee's martial arts/fantasy/romance to raise some speculation - gushing critics, behind-the-scenes brouhaha on Bravo - but in this case, believe the hype. The best way to see Crouching Tiger, to tell the truth, is to know as little about the film as possible, and just sit yourself down in a huge dark theater and see what unfolds before your widening e More
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Is ‘Speed’ Levitch, subject of the new documentary, The Cruise,
"14th Street is the widest part of Manhattan Island at 2.4 miles across" - "Manhattan Island is 13 miles long" - "H.G Wells once wrote that to tell the story of New York City is to tell the history of the world. Fasten your seat belts." 'Where did they find this guy?' was all I could think as I settled in to gain the wisdom of the whiny onscreen rantings of Timothy "Speed" Levitch. This wacky, Grey Gardens-esque documentary allows us a glimpse into the life of Levitch, New York City tour bus guide - cum - filmmaker - poet - historian turned out to, be quite a gem. Subject matter that at first seemed bizarre and obscure turned out to be just t More
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A faithful adaptation? - You decide
Books are always better than the movie. The same seems to apply to comic books. I have yet to meet a fan of the medium to say they enjoyed the big screen adaptation better than the real thing - even if the flick is fantastic. One of the biggest Marvel Comics' cult classics, Daredevil, has inevitably been made into a movie in spite of rumblings from its die-hard followers. More
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Skeptics: 1, Kurt Russell: 0
After work the other night, well, after he was done working, a friend and I were discussing Kurt Russell over several beers. Although there never needs to be a reason to discuss Mr. Russell, this time it happened to be the evening before I was to view the new film Dark Blue, in which he stars as a fiery, hard-drinking cop named Eldon Perry. More
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Don't avert your eyes
The Surrealists were a bunch of bored, wealthy, uppity, and very creative males (plus a dash of estrogen here and there) who bucked the system with their art. They tried. Their ideals rocked, they broke barriers, revolutionized static art forms, delved into the repressed parts of the human imagination… but a hint of pretentiousness, vicarious living, and flippancy leave a stale stench in their historic wake. More
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When Climatologists Become Cool
When would nerdy scientists become overnight heroes and The Weather Channel usurp CNN as the cable news channel of choice? When hell, or in this case Manhattan, freezes over. Which is exactly what happens in director Roland Emmerich's (Independence Day (yuck), Godzilla (don't fix what ain't broke), The Patriot) new movie The Day After Tomorrow. Like a Discovery Channel special on steroids, this summer flick looks at what the world, specifically America, would look like if we entered a new Ice Age; the results are horrific yet awe-inspiring. More
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Death to Smoochy looks at the man behind the mask
Welcome to the dark, sinister, deadly underworld of children's television. It's Jerry Falwell's wet dream-that the seemingly benevolent humans inside those fluffy, bouncy, brightly colored costumes are really degenerates, criminals, homosexuals! Danny DeVito's "Death to Smoochy" takes this premise to the edge, telling the story of a corrupt kiddie host, Rainbow Randolph (Robin Williams) who gets swiftly dropped from the network when he's busted for taking suitcases full of money from desperate parents who want their child on his hit show. Once Rainbow Randolph's booted, his reputation ruined (it's all over the New York papers -- imagine if Ba More
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