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The Spiral Staircase (1975)

The Spiral Staircase (1975)

What a fabulously bad movie I just unearthed! The Spiral Staircase is dated, melodramatic, and full of cliches, but boy is it fun to make fun of. Throw in...

Jennifer
Dreamland (2006)

Dreamland (2006)

Dreamland is one of those sleepy indie movies that doesn’t necessarily knock your socks off, but sticks in your mind long after the credits have rolled. With its stunning...

Jennifer
Night at the Museum (2006)

Night at the Museum (2006)

Ben Stiller is Larry Daley, a divorced dad who’s suffered a string of bad ideas that led to crappy jobs, multiple relocations and assorted disappointments for his pre-teen son,...

Vickie
High School Musical (2006)

High School Musical

Until I watched the DVD, my familiarity with High School Musical was with basically one scene in the film. One scene that was on every time I turned on...

Linda
3 Needles (2005)

3 Needles (2005)

It is hard to disparage a “message movie”, especially one with a topic as important as the worldwide AIDS epidemic. 3 Needles presents three thought-provoking tales (that don’t overlap,...

Linda
Apocalypto (2006)

Apocalypto (2006)

As in, quasi-pornographic gore and whole-hog blood and guts. Full throttle. Up close. Thirty feet high and in stereo-surround sound. For almost two hours and twenty minutes. Needless to...

Linda
Babel (2006)

Babel (2006)

Director Alejandro González Iñárritu is obviously a man exploding with talent and passion. He works wonders with actors, and he tends to infuse his tales with a relentless intensity....

Linda
Somewhere in Time (1980)

Somewhere in Time (1980)

If you want to make your head explode, try answering the hard questions about Somewhere in Time. If an old Jane Seymour gives a young Christopher Reeve a watch...

Jennifer
Eyewitness (1981)

Eyewitness (1981)

I can’t believe it—I did it again! I found another so-bad-it’s-good Christopher Plummer movie! With The Spiral Staircase I’m two for two! And Eyewitness is full of before-they-were-megafamous faces!...

Jennifer
The Silent Partner (1981)

The Silent Partner (1978)

I watched The Silent Partner at the end of a day spent convalescing with a horrible headache and listening to Christopher Plummer read The Nutcracker on tape. By evening...

Jennifer
A Song for Martin

A Song for Martin (En Sång för Martin) (2001)

Maestro Martin (Sven Wollter) falls for his first violinist Barbara (Viveka Seldahl), they begin an affair, and dump their spouses and adult children and run off together to get...

Linda
Akeelah and the Bee (2006)

Akeelah and the Bee (2006)

The day I write this, Akeelah and the Bee has an 84% postive rating on Rotten Tomatoes, which basically makes me look like the biggest ass on the planet....

Linda