• June 3, 2003
• At Home, Drama

Now, one of the things I love about going to film festivals is seeing movies “cold”… i.e. glancing over the schedule, eyeing the cast of a film, for instance,...

• May 28, 2003
• At Home, Drama

Pre-Six Feet Under, I discovered Lauren Ambrose as a fabulous comic actress in Psycho Beach Party, and then she went and and blew me away with this subtle dramatic...

• May 21, 2003
• At Home, Comedy

A filmmaker named “Dude” Schmitz (Mark Borchardt, of American Movie) and his crew (yep, including Mark’s buddy Mike Schank) get thrown out of a Britney Spears concert for asking...

• May 20, 2003
• At Home, Comedy, Romance

Catcher Block (Ewan McGregor) is, as we’re reminded more than once during this delightfully winning comedy, a ladies’ man, man’s man, man about town. He’s a hotshot writer for...

• May 17, 2003
• At Home, Comedy

The team that brought us the dog-show farce Best in Show and the small-town-puts-on-a-musical spoof Waiting for Guffman now turn their mockumentary eye on folk music. Not just folk...

• May 3, 2003
• Action, At Home, Fantasy, Science Fiction

I’ll admit that I walked into the press screening—an experience that was complete with a bag search and metal detectors!—a little skeptical. I’d seen the original X-Men movie and...

• April 15, 2003
• At Home, Comedy

Normally, I fall into the former group but, sadly, my normally affectionate allegiance to the guy who introduced the world to Billy Madison wasn’t enough to make me enjoy...

• March 28, 2003
• Action, At Home, Drama, Thriller

Thank God for Viggo Mortensen. Without him I would never have watched Crimson Tide, and I would have missed out on a fantastic, edge-of-your-seat, nail-biter of a movie. Any...

• March 26, 2003
• At Home, Science Fiction

Well. I saw The Core. Why? I have no idea. So you don’t have to? Actually, I shouldn’t say that, because by the end of this review you’ll realize...

• February 23, 2003
• At Home, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

About 20 minutes into The Life of David Gale, I was so simultaneously bored and restless that my mind wandered. I found myself playing mental word games for fun,...

• February 20, 2003
• At Home, Comedy, Crime, Drama

I’m not really sure how to approach a review of Adaptation, only because even now—some five and a half days after seeing it—I’m still not sure what I thought....

• February 6, 2003
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Comedy

Owen Wilson and Jackie Chan reprise their roles from the hit Shanghai Noon, as ladies’ man cowboy Roy O’Bannon and former Chinese Imperial guard, now Old West sheriff, Chon...