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Good Night, and Good Luck 2005 Five stars I waited a long time to watch this movie because I knew it would make me angry. I was a journalism major in college and thought I would work in newspapers all my life, but I got disenchanted pretty quickly (don’t we all?) because of the lack…
When my husband is out of town, I like to Tivo movies from the Independent Film Channel (I do it when he’s not home because he doesn’t like wasting hard drive space on anything that isn’t in high definition). When he was on a recent business trip, I checked out the 1991 movie proof, starring…
Sometimes the fan films and spoofs of Star Wars are more fun than the real thing, and that’s definately the way I feel about this one Grocery Store Wars produced by the Organic Trade Association. Here you will see Obi-Wan Cannoli and Cuke Skywalker defend the grocery store from the dark side of the farm,…
I happened to catch a 15-minute long documentary/trailer on the making of Reefer Madness before this made-for-TV movie was set to air on Showtime. Based on an off-Broadway play (that opened and closed soon after Sept. 11, 2001, when no one was going to the theater), this movie is a rousing parody/homage to the 1938…
In just a few short weeks The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy will finally hit the big screen. I loved this book so much the first time I read it, and I’m really kind of excited about the prospect of seeing these characters on the big screen, even though of course it won’t be as…
Lauren Bacall is at it again. She tells Radio Times magazine that today’s actresses have no talent, all look the same and are too skinny (see this BBC article for more details). She says they’ll sacrifice anything to be stars, and even work on television (the horror!) and that we live in an age of…
I watched what was probably the worst movie I’ve ever seen the other night. Or, I guess I should say, I watched part of the worst movie I’ve ever seen the other night. Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle came recommended by some folks my husband works with. I’m never trusting them again. The…
