I wasn’t a big fan of Get Smart when Don Adams starred as Maxwell Smart in the television series. I enjoyed it a lot, but I was more into serious spying, as with James Bond and The Man From U.N.C.L.E.. Mel Brooks and Buck Henry enjoyed their take on spydom and the recent big-screen treatment [...]
WALL-E
Wall-E hit theaters today and packed the seats a noon at my local movie house. I’ve enjoyed every Pixar movie that’s come out, and this one is no exception. However, I have to admit that after the deluge of trailers that have haunted the television set later I was expecting to be blown away. I [...]
KUNG FU PANDA
My ten year old is currently working on his senior red belt in karate, so when we started seeing trailers for Kung Fu Panda I knew it wouldn’t be long before we’d have to see it. Sure enough, opening weekend arrived and we took our seats. I’m a big fan of kids’ cartoon movies, really [...]
YOU DON’T MESS WITH THE ZOHAN
Sometimes you just have to be a fan to appreciate something. I found that to be the case in Adam Sandler’s new movie, You Don’t Mess With The Zohan. I loved Happy Gilmore and have seen it several times, and there’s a soft spot in my heart for Big Daddy. I even got excited over [...]
TEETH
When Teeth first started getting shopped around as a possible film project, the premise raised immediate interest…and eyebrows. No one, after hearing the subject matter, could have been totally comfortable with the prospect of the film. I known when I read about it I had my doubts whether the movie could be successfully made in [...]
RADIOLAND MURDERS
Radioland Murders is one of my favorite movies to put in when I’ve had a hard week and want to go brain-dead with something familiar. My love of Old Time Radio probably spurs this on because the movie is set there with love by George Lucas and his people. I’m too young to have been [...]
NANCY DREW
Nancy Drew is one of those iconic heroes kids who read tend to grow up with. I know I shared several of her adventures (read on the sly because I’m a guy) when I was younger. I read the Hardy Boys out in the public eye, along with the adventures of Tom Swift, Jr., Ken [...]
BIKINI BLOODBATH
Let me say this for the record and be upfront about it: there are no – as in none – redeeming qualities about Bikini Bloodbath. Anyone looking for anything philosophically deeper than a tanline or a plot of any degree is going to be sorely disappointed. The movie is exactly as the title portrays it [...]
EVIL ROY SLADE
Most people are going to remember comic actor John Astin for his role as Gomez Addams on The Addams Family television series. As Gomez, Astin swaggered onto the stage and delivered one-liners and off-beat dialogue with impeccable timing. However, I remember him most vividly in the title role of Evil Roy Slade, a made-for-TV movie [...]
