After a long, strange journey from stage to screen, Evita finally reached theaters in 1996, twenty years after the original concept album was released.
I think things really started going with the selection of director Alan Parker. With a strong background in musical films that are not really musicals (Pink Floyd: The Wall, Birdy, The […]
Given how much I love The Nightmare Before Christmas and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, I really expected to enjoy James and the Giant Peach a lot more than I did. The problem with Roald Dahl (author of the original book) is that he had a very dark view of life and it’s […]
In 1996, wroter/director/actor Christopher Guest revisited a film form that he had last visited in This is Spinal Tap as a writer/performer: the mockumentary. In Waiting for Guffman, he presents a very similarly styled tale, one of relative incompetance and failure to live up to even meager expectations.
Guffman, is much more of an […]
This one’s kind of for the fans out there. Most of my thoughts on Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie are inevitably tied to my feelings on the show, so those of you unfamiliar with the series might not get most of the references.
Okay. MST3K: The Movie is the project that made Joel […]
Viewed September 15, 2006
This will seem like heresy to some (perhaps many) of you. I was utterly bored by Fargo. Now, I always seem to blow hot and cold with the Coen brothers. I either love ‘em (Miller’s Crossing, The Hudsucker Proxy) or hate ‘em (Barton Fink). This time, however, I […]
Viewed August 28, 2006
High School High wants too much out of itself. On the one hand, it wants to be a wacky, Airplane-like comedy. (This is not surprising, given the screenplay is by David Zucker (Airplane!, The Naked Gun, Scary Movie 3 & 4), Pat Proft (The Naked Gun, Police Academy, Hot Shots) […]