BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (2005) Starring Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams, Anna Hathaway, Randy Quaid, Linda Cardellini, Anna Faris, Valerie Planche, Graham Beckel, David Harbour, Kate Mara, Roberta Maxwell, Peter McRobbie, Scott Michael Campbell, David Trimble and Larry Reese. Screenplay by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. Directed by Ang Lee. Distributed by Focus Features. 134 minutes. … Continue reading
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The Best of the Electric Company (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)
The Electric Company The Best of the Electric Company (Shout! Factory-2006) HEY, YOU GUYS! Just when you thought you couldn’t recapture any more of your TV-watching childhood, The Electric Company has surprisingly and blessedly come to DVD. Nowhere near as good as you remember it – with crude graphics, cheesy synthesizers and overlong segments (it’s stuffed to the … Continue reading
I Love Lucy – The Complete Fourth Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)
I Love Lucy The Complete Fourth Season (1954-1955) (Paramount-2005) Do we really love Lucy, or have we been brainwashed to think we do, like in The Manchurian Candidate? When the laughter subsides, is Lucy truly deserving of our love? Is she as overwhelmingly funny as we are led to believe? Does the Empress have no clown … Continue reading
National Lampoon’s Pucked (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
NATIONAL LAMPOON’S PUCKED (2006) Featuring Jon Bon Jovi, Estella Warren, David Faustino, Nora Dunn, Cary Elwes, Curtis Armstrong, Pat Kilbane, Jonathan Furr, Dot Marie Jones, Danielle James, J. David Shapiro, Dana Barron, Mark Povinelli, Al Wiggins, Sal Catalano, Angela Bennett and Gizza Elizondo. Screenplay by Matty Simmons and William Dozier & Sal Catalano & Shakes … Continue reading
Music Scene – The Best of 1969-1970 (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)
Music Scene The Best of 1969-1970 (Volumes 1 & 2) (MPI Home Video-2000) The train wreck that is Music Scene – an uncomfortable, pre-Saturday Night Live mix of youthful comedy and popular music – is worth watching if only for its noble attempt to do what it did before what it did was done right. This ABC variety … Continue reading
Curious George (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
CURIOUS GEORGE (2006) Featuring the voices of Drew Barrymore, Shane Baumel, David Cross, Will Ferrell, Hailey Noelle Johnson, Eugene Levy, Nadia Lewis, Ed O’Ross, Joan Plowright, Dick Van Dyke and Frank Welker. Screenplay by Ken Kaufman. Directed by Matthew O’Callaghan. Distributed by Universal Pictures. 77 minutes. Rated G. Between the sometimes overwhelmingly stuffed frames of … Continue reading
Doom (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
DOOM (2005) Starring Karl Urban, The Rock, Rosamund Pike, DeObia Oparei, Ben Daniels, Raz Adoti, Richard Brake, Al Weaver, Dexter Fletcher, Brian Steele, Yao Chin, Robert Russell, Daniel York, Ian Hughes, Sara Houghton, Blanka Jarasova and Doug Jones. Screenplay by David Calliham and Wesley Strick. Directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak. Distributed by Universal Pictures. 100 minutes. … Continue reading
Tamara (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
TAMARA (2006) Starring Jenna Dewan, Matthew Marsden, Chad Faust, Gil Hacohen, Claudette Mink, Melissa Elias, Katie Stuart and Chris Sigurdson. Screenplay by Jeffrey Reddick. Directed by Jeremy Haft. Distributed by City Lights Entertainment and Lionsgate Films. 91 minutes. Rated R. Tamara was supposed to be a straight-to-video release, however good word of mouth about the film … Continue reading
Unknown White Male (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
UNKNOWN WHITE MALE (2006) Featuring Doug Bruce, Dr. Daniel Schacter, Lily Frost and Rupert Murray. Directed by Rupert Murray. Distributed by Wellspring Films. 88 minutes. Rated PG-13. Amnesia seems like such a fictional disease. You see it in the movies, and you suspend disbelief, considering it a plot device, nothing more. It is rare that … Continue reading
The Velvet Underground – Velvet Redux Live MCMXCIII (A PopEntertainment.com Music Video Review)
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND – VELVET REDUX LIVE MCMXCIII (2006) Starring Lou Reed, John Cale, Moe Tucker and Sterling Morrison. Directed by Declan Lowney. Distributed by Sire/Rhino Home Video. 83 minutes. Not Rated. Everyone knows the legend of the Velvet Underground, a brainy group of beatnik New York musicians who were championed by pop artist Andy … Continue reading