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Knocked Up (2007)

Knocked Up (2007)

Knocked Up is a surprisingly crass, way over-marketed movie about an oafish loser with chauvinistic tendencies, who gets a pretty girl pregnant after a drunken one-night stand… … and...

Vickie
Black Book (Zwartboek) (2006)

Black Book (Zwartboek) (2006)

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...

Vickie
Sylvia Scarlett

Sylvia Scarlett (1935)

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...

Linda
Romance With a Double Bass (1974)

Romance With a Double Bass (1974)

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...

Linda
Arctic Tale (2007)

Arctic Tale (2007)

The last few years have produced some stellar nature documentaries that have, incredibly (and impressively), made a big splash in the mainstream. Anything from penguins (March of the Penguins)...

Linda
How to Irritate People (1968)

How to Irritate People (1968)

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,...

Linda
The Strange Case Of The End Of Civilization as We Know It (1975)

The Strange Case Of The End Of Civilization as We Know It (1975)

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,...

Linda
Planet Earth (2006)

Planet Earth (2006)

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,...

Eric
Rank (2006)

Rank (2006)

I became a fan of the PBR (Professional Bull Riders) on a rainy Sunday a few years ago when I happened to catch it on TV while parked on...

Linda
Cruising (1980)

Cruising (1980)

After working my way through all the Al Pacino movies I could get my hands on, I hit a wall. There were still a few titles left, but they...

Jennifer
After the Wedding (Efter brylluppet) (2006)

After the Wedding (Efter brylluppet) (2006)

Susanne Bier’s last film, the sublime Brothers, dealt with the repercussions when a woman is forced to choose between two vastly different men. This time, the central figure is...

Vickie
Are We Done Yet? (2007)

Are We Done Yet? (2007)

In what is an even finer example of lowest-common-denominator filmmaking than its insipid predecessor, Are We There Yet? (which, coincidentally, I also hated), this alleged “family film” dumbs itself...

Vickie