AMATEUR PORN STAR KILLER 2 (2008) Starring Kai Lanette and Shane Ryan. Screenplay by Kai Lanette and Shane Ryan. Directed by Shane Ryan. Distributed by Alter Ego Cinema. 80 minutes. Not Rated. When I received the press release about this film – bragging about how the original Amateur Porn Star Killer movie had been made for a … Continue reading
INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL (2008) Starring Harrison Ford, Shia LaBeouf, Cate Blanchett, Karen Allen, Ray Winstone, John Hurt, Jim Broadbent, Igor Jijikine, Alan Dale, Joel Stoffer, Neil Flynn, V.J. Foster and Chet Hanks. Screenplay by David Koepp. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Distributed by Paramount Pictures. 126 minutes. Rated PG-13. Twenty-seven … Continue reading
SEX AND THE CITY: THE MOVIE (2008) Starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, Chris Noth, Jennifer Hudson, David Eigenberg, Evan Handler, Jason Lewis, Mario Cantone, Lynn Cohen, Willie Garson, Candace Bergen and Joanna Gleason. Screenplay by Michael Patrick King. Directed by Michael Patrick King. Distributed by New Line Cinema. 146 minutes. … Continue reading
ROMAN POLANSKI: WANTED AND DESIRED (2008) Featuring Roman Polanski (archival footage), Douglas Dalton, Roger Gunson, Samantha (Gailey) Geimer, Lawrence Silver, David Wells, Jim Grodin, Phillip Vannatter, Richard Brenneman, Daniel Melnick, Mia Farrow, Robert Towne, Lorenzo Semple Jr., Marilyn Beck, Elliot Rittenband, Judge Laurence L. Rittenband (archival footage), Dino DeLaurentiis (archival footage), Nastassja Kinski (archival footage) … Continue reading
DAYS AND CLOUDS (GIORNI E NUVOLE) (2007) Starring Margherita Buy, Antonio Albanese, Giuseppe Battiston, Alba Rohrwacher, Carla Signoris, Fabio Troiano, Paolo Sassanelli, Arnaldo Ninchi, Teco Celio, Antonio Francini, Carlo Scola, Alberto Giusta and Orietta Notari. Screenplay by Doriana Leondeff. Directed by Silvio Soldini. Distributed by Film Movement. 119 minutes. Not Rated. With global economies in … Continue reading
MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS (2008) Starring Norah Jones, Jude Law, David Strathairn, Natalie Portman, Rachel Weisz, Frankie Faison, Hector A. Leguillow, Chan Marshall, Chad Davis, Katya Blumenberg and Adriane Lenox. Screenplay by Wong Kar Wai and Lawrence Block. Directed by Wong Kar Wai. Distributed by The Weinstein Company. 113 minutes. Rated PG-13. It’s so rare that … Continue reading
STEP UP 2 – THE STREETS (2008) Starring Briana Evigan, Robert Hoffman, Adam G. Sevani, Cassie Ventura, Danielle Polanco, Christopher Scott, Mari Koda, Janelle Cambridge, Luis Rosado, Harry Shum Jr., Lajon Dantzler, Telisha Shaw, Sonja Sohn and Channing Tatum. Screenplay by Toni Ann Johnson and Karen Barna. Directed by Jon M. Chu. Distributed by Touchstone … Continue reading
GRACE IS GONE (2007) Starring John Cusack, Shélan O’Keefe, Gracie Bednarczyk, Alessandro Nivola, Dana Lynne Gilhooley, Emily Churchill, Rebecca Spence, Jennifer Tyler, Susan Messing, Doug Dearth, Doug James, Zachary Gray, Marisa Tomei and Mary Kay Place. Screenplay by James C. Strouse. Directed by James C. Strouse. Distributed by The Weinstein Company. 85 minutes. Rated PG-13. … Continue reading
MEET THE SPARTANS (2008) Starring Sean Maguire, Carmen Electra, Ken Davitian, Kevin Sorbo, Method Man, Diedrich Bader, Jareb Dauplaise and Travis Van Winkle. Screenplay by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. Directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. Distributed by 20th Century Fox. 86 minutes. Rated PG-13. There are two kinds of people in the world. … Continue reading
Father Knows Best Season One (1954) (Shout! Factory-2008) A fresh look at Father Knows Best does nothing to answer that chicken-or-the-egg dilemma which has haunted us for over a half century: was family life in the 1950s really this stable, or did television devise a set of standards for happy living so impossible to attain that it could … Continue reading
