• June 20, 2001
• At Home, Comedy, Music, Science Fiction

Mix a splash of cult-movie David Lynchian-absurdity with the lowest-budget sci-fi special effects this side of Plan 9 From Outer Space, and place a space cowboy in the asteroid...

• June 14, 2001
• Action, At Home, Crime, Thriller

After seeing a ridiculous amount of movies, it is always exciting when I by chance come across one that completely blows me away visually. It is astonishing that one...

• May 29, 2001
• At Home, Drama

I have a couple of friends who can attest to my complete and utter lack of flair for the Spanish language. While traveling with them in Spain, they would...

• May 27, 2001
• At Home, Drama

Nørby plays a single, older mother of Brian, an autistic 20-year-old. One night, Brian comes home late with mud on his shoes, and there is news the next morning...

• May 13, 2001
• At Home, Comedy, Drama

The Dish is based on the true story of an Australian antenna dish that broadcast the Apollo 11 landing.  The oddity of the dish is that it’s placed in...

• May 11, 2001
• At Home, Horror, Thriller

When VCRs first came out, An American Werewolf in London was one of the first videos where my brother and I discovered the joys of rewinding-your-favorite-scene abuse (“A naked...

• May 2, 2001
• At Home, Drama, Music

Call me a bitter person, but I really don’t like singing children. No, let me rephrase that… it’s a bit unfair. I don’t like singing children who have the...

• March 27, 2001
• At Home, Documentary

There was this episode of the very funny Fox TV cartoon “King of the Hill”, where middle-aged Hank Hill walks in on his elderly mother having sex with her...

• February 27, 2001
• At Home, Crime, Drama, Romance

The Legend of Rita is a fictionalized story of one such terrorist, a woman named Rita Vogt (Bibiana Beglau) who in the early 1970s robs banks with her boyfriend...

• February 8, 2001
• Action, At Home, Crime, Thriller

I knew about John Woo’s reputation… people have always said that his Hollywood flicks, like Face/Off and Mission: Impossible 2 just haven’t quite matched up with his earlier Hong...

• January 21, 2001
• At Home, Drama

First off, I declare a five-year moratorium on movie titles with active-verb-plus-noun titles. Chasing Amy was fine, clever, and original. But then came Saving Grace, Finding Forrester, the indie...

• January 12, 2001
• At Home, Drama, Thriller

Hollywood needs to be told that computer geeks very rarely look like Sandra Bullock (The Net), Ryan Phillippe (Antitrust), or Angelina Jolie (Hackers). If these people worked in marketing,...