Took me a while to get to go see this film. Not because I avoided it on purpose, not at all. Steve Carell has been a funny guy before that film, and even though everybody just discovered him this past summer as the lovable virgin, I knew him from The Daily Show appearances, the short-lived [...]
Stephen Colbert is coming to Canada next week! After only two weeks, the new Daily Show spin-off show called The Colbert Report is coming to CTV (and Comedy Network). Late night television is getting some tough competition as the midnight hour is being taken over by the little show (actually, two little shows) from Comedy [...]
Nick Park has done it again. First with the original three short films (each more amusing and precious than the other), then with Chicken Run in 2002. Now, finally the time has come for the famous duo to claim the big screen. For those who don’t like animation (or have something against claymation), Wallace and [...]
Ah, mid-to-late September is here. You know what this means. No, not the gorgeous fall season. No, not the cloudless sky and cool nights. No, not the horrendous traffic as all kids big and small get on the road and start crawling sideways… No, this means new TV shows. And unlike so many many other [...]
Not cool, but funny. Not original but sincerely trying to fill big shoes. And very entertaining if you loved the first movie (Get Shorty). I liked all the references, and in-jokes, all the while wondering what would newbies think of them. Without the first movie they lose all meaning, but if you happen to watch [...]
I admit I did not see the Grinch. There weren’t too many movies in 2000 I bothered to see. But I know it had mixed reviews and those that hated it really hated it. I was hoping to see The Cat In The Hat when it was out. I wanted to when I first saw [...]
The smaller, but not necessarily less important WB network has announced its fall schedules, and there are no surprises. The big hits stay, maybe on a different night, and new guys are brought in to keep the network somewhat competitive. WB has proved year after year that all you need is one good show, possibly [...]
Don’t panic. The movie adaptation of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” (which in a way is an adaptation of an old BBC radio show) is not as bad as some people on the internet will have you believe. Sure, the naysayers have a point – the source material (a trilogy in five parts) is [...]
Kung Fu Hustle was by far the silliest Kung Fu movie I have ever seen. It was very much the insanity and slapstick humor of the Three Stooges, Buster Keaton, and all the Warner Brothers cartoons mixed in with Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Couching Tiger Hidden Dragon, and every anime, superhero and kung fu movie [...]
Anyone who’s been a part of a corporate takeover or merger will know exactly what’s happening here – the office politics, the economics, and the games people play from inside their cubicles. Anyone familiar with a sales job, and the pressures of tight budgets will immediately sympathize with main characters who seem to have more [...]
