NEW YEAR’S EVE: Not At Any Price – Calling it a “Sit-Com” Insults TV NEW YEAR’S EVE is such a calculated piece of commercial manufacture that it deserves a Powerpoint presentation m...
THE MUPPETS: Watch It At Home – Nonstop Cuteness When it was announced that Disney’s new movie of THE MUPPETS (the Mouse House bought the entire franchise from Jim Henson’s company some year...
A DANGEROUS METHOD: Watch It At Home – A Visit to Dr. Cronenberg’s Clinic Throughout his career, David Cronenberg has been fascinated by twin compulsions: the aberrant and the repressive. The for...
HUGO: Worth A Ticket – If Only For the Visual Splendors Paramount doesn’t have much choice but to market Martin Scorsese’s HUGO as a family movie: it’s got a PG rating, a young boy and ...
HAPPY FEET TWO: Watch It At Home – Not So Happy This Time Most sequels, by and large, exist only because an earlier movie made lots of money–that’s just a fact. But sequels often at least try...
THE TWILIGHT SAGA – BREAKING DAWN PART 1: Watch It At Home – The Saga Sags In Slow Prelude To The End The worldwide phenomenon that is Twilight often finds itself compared to Harry Potter, and...
IMMORTALS: Watch It At Home – Brainless, Violent and Weirdly Spectacular There’s no question that the director Tarsem Singh has an eye. Singh started as a director of commercials and music videos...