• July 11, 2007
• Adventure, At Home, Family, Fantasy

Now that a solid handful of Harry Potter adaptations have made it to the big screen, I’m going to offer a theory. Any Trekkie knows that until, say movie...

• July 3, 2007
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Science Fiction

Sweet mother of all that is good and pure in this world, Transformers is by far the best summer movie of the year. Hands. Down. Ahem, in short: I...

• June 27, 2007
• Action, At Home, Fantasy

So I was surprised that I found Rise of the Silver Surfer to be entertaining, in an entirely popcorn-and-Red-Vines kind of way. The film reminded me of Saturday matinee...

• June 22, 2007
• At Home, Drama

Angelina Jolie is (or can be) a very good actress. Angelina Jolie does a lot of great things with her celebrity. Alas, Angelina Jolie is also extremely overexposed in...

• June 20, 2007
• At Home, Drama, Music, Romance

The two main characters of Once are never named. The “guy” (played by Glen Hansard) is a street busker in Dublin. He is kind of down on his luck,...

• June 12, 2007
• At Home, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

I saw Dolores Claiborne when it first came out on video, but I think I was too traumatized by the disturbing turn of events to fully appreciate it. For...

• May 31, 2007
• At Home, Drama, Thriller, War

Before watching Black Book, the Verhoeven film that I’d watched most recently was Showgirls—and I spent the two hours and eleven minutes that movie lasted wriggling around scandalized. Showgirls...

• May 12, 2007
• At Home, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Sylvia Scarlett is one of those bafflingly erratic movies that is as frustrating as it is fascinating. A good movie, it is not. It is not a good George...

• April 29, 2007
• At Home, Comedy, Romance

The three featured films of the John Cleese Comedy Collection (well, two films and one television special, rather) clock in at 65 minutes, 40 minutes, and 55 minutes, respectively, with...

• April 29, 2007
• At Home, Comedy

The three featured films of the John Cleese Comedy Collection (well, two films and one television special, rather) clock in at 65 minutes, 40 minutes, and 55 minutes, respectively,...

• April 29, 2007
• At Home, Comedy

The three featured films of the John Cleese Comedy Collection (well, two films and one television special, rather) clock in at 65 minutes, 40 minutes, and 55 minutes, respectively,...

• April 27, 2007
• At Home, Documentary

At last, I have watched every episode of Planet Earth, the BBC nature documentary that aired on the Discovery Channel. Except “nature documentary” doesn’t even begin to describe it,...