GET SMART

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 [...]

THE INCREDIBLE HULK

After seeing Ang Lee’s version of the Incredible Hulk a few years ago, I was dead-set against seeing the new release. Just didn’t need the aggravation. But two things changed my mind. Iron Man and Robert Downey Jr. just blew me away, and my ten year old developed a raging interest in the Hulk while [...]

SPEED RACER

The live-action version of Speed Racer screamed onto movie screens this past weekend. The snarling, high-velocity, throaty roar of big engines gunning for the checkered flag brought fans, young and old, to the theater. But whether or not the movie is a success depends in large part on why you went there to see it. [...]

INTELLIGENCE

With the writers’ strike going on in the United States, viewers started looking for other shows to replace the plethora of reruns that plagued the evening/weekend viewing landscape. BBC shows got picked up for early American runs as well as being brought over for the first time. I ended up watching a lot of new [...]