I like both Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson but Bride Wars is offensive, simplistic and mundane. Marketed as a romantic comedy, the film directed by Gary Winick (13 Going on 30, Tadpole) and written by Greg Depaul (Saving Silverman), Casey…
Though Peyton Place hit the air several years before I was born, it’s always been a great curiosity of mine. Through the years, I have read Grace Metalious’ 1956 novel and her 1959 follow-up, Return to Peyton Place and seen…
Though it was inspired by Star Trek, to call Galaxy Quest a simple spoof would mean belittling one of the greatest sci-fi comedies ever made. Written by David Howard and Robert Gordon and directed by Dean Parisot (Fun with Dick…
Rarely is the hero the reader, that user of mind not body. The routine of the reader is antithetical to that of the hero. The devourer of words is seen as passive, a spectator, an observer of others actions. All…
“I was born under unusual circumstances.” And so begins The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like all…
That Girl was the first sitcom to focus on a single woman who was not a domestic or living at home. Some consider the show the forerunner of highly successful series such as The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Murphy…
Most moviegoers are likely aware of director Bryan Singer’s X-Men films that first hit theater screens in 2000. However, back in October of 1992, Fox Network launched X-Men, also known as X-Men: The Animated Series. The series was part of…
Directed by Rodrigo Garcia (Nine Lives) and written by Ronnie Christensen, Passengers is a mystery-cum-romance film. The plot is constructed in such a way that all the different plot points come together at the end, for a revelation that resets…
As any Star Trek fan is undoubtedly aware, the original series has been released in countless DVD formats. From its late 1990s single disc, two-episodes-per-disc DVD release, to its more recent HD presentation, the Enterprise and her crew have never…
If Dallas didn’t completely “jump the shark” after the tenth season, “it was all a dream” fiasco, the producers made sure they finished the job during the eleventh year. After ten years on the series, Victoria Principal, who played the…