Claire and Phil Foster (Tina Fey and Steve Carell) are a typical suburban couple whose lives including their weekly date nights of dinner and a movie have become routine. To reignite the marital spark, they visit a trendy Manhattan bistro…
20th Century Fox | 2009 | 95 mins. | Rated PG-13 Rarely can it be said that a romantic comedy is one of the best films of the year. With (500) Days of Summer, director Marc Webb brought a new…
Disney / Buena Vista | 2009 | 92 mins. | Rated R As the creator of Beavis and Butt-head and King of the Hill, Mike Judge has proven himself to be a very funny guy. While his forays into television…
In anticipation of the December 22, 2009 DVD and Blu-ray release of Extract, recently, I was fortunate enough to participate in a virtual roundtable with writer/director Mike Judge. He answered questions on a wide range of topics, including the differences…
History Channel | 2007 | 94 mins. | not Rated The first half of the 1930’s was one of the bleakest times in American history. Beginning with the stock market crash on October 29, 1929, the nation was plunged into…
Warner Bros. | 2002 | 174 mins. | Rated PG Released just a year after Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, 2002’s The Chamber of Secrets finds the young wizard back at home with his Muggle family on summer vacation,…
Shout Factory | 1983-84 | 1050 mins. | Not Rated Adapted from John Jay Osborn, Jr.’s 1970 novel and the 1973 film it inspired, The Paper Chase follows the lives of law student James T. Hart (James Stephens) and his…
Warner Bros. | 2009 | 108 mins. | Unrated While I’ve always felt director/producer and screenwriter Todd Phillips was a talented guy—his documentaries Frat House and Bittersweet Motel are both high quality stuff—I never completely warmed to the fraternity style…
Disney / Buena Vista | 2009 | 88 mins. | Rated PG Back in the 1980’s and early 1990’s when the production team of Bruckheimer/Simpson were flying high with testosterone filled box office hits like Flashdance, Beverly Hills Cop and…
Warner Bros. | 1939 | 238 mins. | Rated G Adapted from Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 novel of the same name, the theatrical version of Gone With the Wind turns seventy this year. Still largely considered the prototype for the Hollywood…