This rather strange television series, a mixture of Western, comedy, and science fiction, was steampunk before steampunk was cool. It ran only 28 episodes over a single season. Bruce Campbell plays the title character, a graduate of Harvard Law School … Continue reading
This is a fun space opera with a nice sense of humor and flashes of humanity, but it has so many characters and such a convoluted plot that it would have helped if the film had come with orientation briefings … Continue reading
A few decades in the future the Earth is suffering serious environmental problems and an associated economic depression. Diseases wipe out entire food crops while dust storms sweep across the landscape. Matthew McConaughey is a former astronaut now trying to … Continue reading
Jimmy Stewart is a successful Indianapolis surgeon happily married to Doris Day. They and their young son have been in Paris for a medical conference and are playing tourist in Morocco when a murdered man whispers an urgent message warning … Continue reading
It’s autumn in rural Vermont, the leaves are changing colors, and all’s not quite right with the world. Edmund Gwenn, best known as Kris Kringle in 1947’s Miracle on 34th Street, plays a retired sea captain who at the start of … Continue reading
In one of Hitchcock’s best films, Jimmy Stewart is a globe-trotting photojournalist temporarily confined to his Greenwich Village apartment by a broken leg. Grace Kelly is his devoted girlfriend, rich, classy, and heavily involved in the fashion industry. She wants … Continue reading
This is one of Alfred Hitchcock’s best films, based on a popular stage play by Frederick Knot, who also wrote the script for the film. Like its even better immediate successor, Rear Window, Dial M for Murder is set almost … Continue reading
The original film (reviewed here) was dumb but still occasionally clever and entertaining. This one is just dumb. In fact, the one clever idea they had was to call it Hot Tub Time Machine 3, but the studio wouldn’t let … Continue reading
Ricky Gervais (who also co-wrote and co-directed) plays a man living on a parallel Earth where everyone is incapable of being other than honest. No lying means no acting, so all movies are documentaries and a movie star is someone … Continue reading
Old friends John Cusack, Craig Robinson, and Rob Corddry, along with Cusack’s young nephew Clark Duke, go to a ski resort that was popular when the three friends were younger. Alas, it has now gone to seed, but when a … Continue reading