Paul Thomas Anderson’s dark, majestic, Oscar winning epic, out now on DVD.
If you were trying to comprehend a monster, trying to boil it all down to its core, you could say that Paul Thomas Anderson’s fifth feature film is at heart about the struggle between capitalism and religion, wealth and faith. Yet here is a story of greed, of the corrupting influence of power; a film about the lengths that men will go to in…

Alley Oop-s…
Actor-comedian Will Ferrell has perfected a commercial concoction of successful artifice steeped in the Freudian subconscious of man-child arrested development that makes the truth of his flagrant box office success far stranger than fiction. Like a mad scientist working furiously into the night, the quack-y general practitioner, Ferrell, has found…

The Blue Men return for version 2.0 of their rock concert experience.
The Blue Man Group return to their rock concert experience in their latest DVD, captured during their "How To Be A Megastar 2.0" tour. If you already own The Complex, Blue Man Group's previous DVD release from 2004, much of this material will be familiar as it's nearly the same concert from that tour. That's not necessarily a…

The performances are great, the story interesting, and the messages behind it admirable.
It’s refreshing to see a film that has such weighted ideas being employed within it which are put across so honestly and with such conviction. It takes its time getting into its eventual pace but once it gets there it’s an interesting watch indeed.A high school teacher’s attempt to teach his students what it’s like to be…

A disappointing TV adaptation with too much stock summer action and too little humor.
Strange how Get Smart collects such an ideal cast and misuses it. Also peculiar how the film tries to be an action comedy but never really manages to get the action and the comedy right at the same time. On the surface, from the trailers and ads, the players all certainly seem primed and ready to attempt to capture the spirit of the original 60s…

105 minutes of campy Batman fun!
Though I wasn't born yet when the original Batman series first captivated audiences when it premiered in January of 1966 on ABC, I watched the series in the eighties whenever it showed up in syndication. Always a fan of superheroes, Batman and Superman have always topped my list of favorites. There is something about Batman, a simple human…

The episode when season three kicked into high gear and began to reach levels of season two.
I want to send my thanks to all who read and sent comments regarding my cop-out last week for “Red Sky At Morning”. The feedback was fantastic and many agreed with my choices for the five worst episodes. The best episodes list will be coming in a few weeks, and I’m sure I’ll get far more disagreement on that one. …

A movie that does not know what it wants to be.
Written by Hombre DivertidoThis is just a movie that does not know what it wants to be. It’s almost as if writers Tom J. Astle and Matt Ember wrote a movie about spies, and then tried to turn it into Get Smart by putting Steve Carell in the lead, adding some comedic gags, and references to the original series.It’s also questionable to…