• July 11, 2008
• Action, At Home, Comedy, Fantasy

Back in 2004, director Guillermo del Toro helmed the first Hellboy movie to a moderate level of acclaim and fanboy delight. But back then, he was just the sorta-known...

• June 27, 2008
• Action, At Home, Television

After watching Season 2 of CHiPs in its entirety, I think I’ve found my calling. Seeing all those chases and rescues inspired something in me, something that made me...

• May 30, 2008
• At Home, Drama, Romance

Spider Lilies is the story of Takeko (Isabella Leong), a lonely tattoo artist who keeps to herself, and only seems to have social contact with her withdrawn adult brother...

• April 29, 2008
• At Home, Drama

From the opening moments of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, you know you are in for something different. The camera is blurry and disoriented. It has a hard...

• March 28, 2008
• At Home, Drama, War

For such an immensely popular and acclaimed book, it was surprising that the film adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner crept into theaters with a whimper, then slunk...

• March 28, 2008
• At Home, Crime, Drama

Con men,  expert thieves, scientific geniuses, whatever. If they’re able to somehow outsmart a system, I’m in. So the prospect of watching a movie about a bunch of college...

• March 16, 2008
• At Home, Drama, Romance

Banned in China for its rampant sexuality, but probably more likely because its depiction of Tiananmen Square in 1989, “Sixth Generation” filmmaker Lou Ye has created a film that...

• March 6, 2008
• At Home, Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Hayden Christensen plays Clay, a super-rich young man with a domineering and over-protective mother (Lena Olin). Clay has inherited his father’s riches, his business, and one might guess, his...

• February 28, 2008
• At Home, Drama, Family

I have spent my entire life laboring under the impression that International Velvet is very old and stars Elizabeth Taylor in a sequel to her own National Velvet. Imagine...

• February 23, 2008
• Animation, At Home, Family

I like the Peanuts gang as much as the next person, but they have given me moments of pause in my life. Like when I was six and they...

• February 19, 2008
• At Home

No Reservations, despite its star wattage of Catherine Zeta-Jones and Aaron Eckhart kinda bombed in the theater. It probably didn’t help that it was a foodie-movie beaten to the...

• February 13, 2008
• Adventure, Animation, At Home, Comedy

A pretty white kitty named Duchess (seductively voiced by Eva Gabor) lives with her kittens in the mansion of her elderly Madame. I mean, I guess Madame is elderly,...