NATIONAL TREASURE (2004) Starring Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha, Jon Voight, Sean Bean, Harvey Keitel, David Dayan Fisher, Stewart Finley-McLennon, Oleg Taktarov, Stephen Pope, Annie Parisse, Mark Pellegrino, Armando Riesco, Erik King and Christopher Plummer. Screenplay by Jim Kouf, Cormac Wibberley and Mariane Wibberley. Directed by Jon Turteltaub. Distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. 131 … Continue reading
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A Very Long Engagement (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT (UN LONG DIMANCHE DE FIANÇAILLES) (2004) Starring Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Jerome Kircher, Dominique Bettenfeld, Marion Cotillard, Jean Pierre Darroussin, Denis Lavant, Clovis Comillac, Albert Dupontel, Chantal Neuwirth, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Julie Depardieu, Dominique Pinon, Tchéky Karyo and Jodie Foster. Screenplay by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant. Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Distributed … Continue reading
Out Front with Jay-Z
JAY-Z OUT FRONT WITH JAY-Z by Brad Balfour Thanks to his current conflicts with fellow tour-ist R. Kelly, Brooklyn born hip-hop chart topper Jay-Z (aka Shawn Carter) doesn’t come down from the headlines. But there’s another reason — the release of his live concert/semi-autobiographical feature, Fade to Black (producer Rick Rubin). Chronicling his Madison Square Garden performance … Continue reading
After School Specials 1974-1976 (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)
After School Specials 1974-1976 (BCI Eclipse-2004) In the early 1960s, FCC chairman Newton Minnow called television “a vast wasteland,” accusing the entertainment industry of producing mind-numbing and mediocre offerings, as gray and dull as dishwater. Even President Kennedy agreed that the medium was not reaching its full potential, and in effort to balance things out he … Continue reading
Christmas With the Kranks (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
CHRISTMAS WITH THE KRANKS (2004) Starring Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dan Aykroyd, M. Emmet Walsh, Cheech Marin, Austin Pendleton, Elizabeth Franz, Erik Per Sullivan, Jake Busey, Tom Poston, Julie Gonzalo, René Lavan, Caroline Rhea, Felicity Huffman, Patrick Breen and Vernee Watson-Johnson. Screenplay by Chris Columbus. Directed by Joe Roth. Distributed by Columbia Pictures. 98 … Continue reading
Everybody Loves Raymond – The Complete First Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)
Everybody Loves Raymond The Complete First Season (HBO-2004) The terrific Everybody Loves Raymond is the situation comedy structure stripped down to its barest elements. Because the sitcom genre peaked with Seinfeld and had nowhere else to go, the Raymond creators instead traveled back to the ‘50s, to the very inception of this odd but immortal art form, and hit the refresh button. Its … Continue reading
Noel (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
NOEL (2004) Starring Susan Sarandon, Penelope Cruz, Paul Walker, Alan Arkin, Marcus Thomas, Sonia Benezra, Marcia Bennett, Kim Bubbs, Ruth Chiang, Donna Hanover, David Julian Hirsch, Chantal Lonergan, Sonny Marinelli, Chazz Palminteri, Erika Rosenbaum, Victoria Sanchez, Daniel Sunjata, Maurizio Terrazzano and Robin Williams. Screenplay by David Hubbard. Directed by Chazz Palminteri. Distributed by The Convex … Continue reading
Punk’d – The Complete First Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)
Punk’d The Complete First Season (MTV/Paramount-2004) As the motor-mouthed host of the MTV hidden-camera show, Punk’d, America’s favorite spoiled brat, Ashton Kutcher, found himself the perfect vehicle. To drive this vehicle, a Von Dutch hat is required, as well as other items of self-conscious hipness, the most important being Kutcher himself. Think what you want about Kutcher, but it’s … Continue reading
Mad About You – The Complete First Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)
Mad About You The Complete First Season (Columbia Tri-Star-2002) The best way to describe Mad About You comes not from the show itself but from a better one: Seinfeld. In it, a newly engaged George Constanza (Jason Alexander) finds himself, so obviously against his will, watching an episode of Mad About You with his fiancée. The look on George’s face … Continue reading
Sideways (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
SIDEWAYS (2004) Starring Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen, Sandra Oh, Marylouise Burke, Jessica Hecht, Missy Doty, M.C. Gainey, Alysia Reiner, Shake Tukhmanyan, Duke Moosekian, Robert Covarrubias, Patrick Gallagher, Stephanie Faracy, Joe Marinelli, Chris Burroughs and Toni Howard. Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor. Directed by Alexander Payne. Distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures. … Continue reading