Shakespeare in Love: Bringing the Bard to Life

Gwyneth Paltrow. Photo: Miramax Let’s say William Shakespeare knew how to time travel. Let’s say he came to 1998, went to the movies and saw John Madden’s film Shakespeare in…

‘Allo, ‘Allo: Getting Along in Nouvion

Carmen Silvera and Gorden Kaye. Photo: BBC Throughout the 1970s, David Croft and Jeremy Lloyd were reaping the rewards of having created one of the most successful British sitcoms of…

Scary Movie 3

So, this is when they got rid of the Wayans brothers and hired the people who virtually created this genre, including David Zucker. Primarily, The Ring and Signs are spoofed,…

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Bridget (Renée Zellweger) is very happy with Mark (Colin Firth), but trouble is brewing in the shape of jealousy – and the return of Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant). This sequel…

Friends: Could It Be More Beloved?

Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer, Matthew Perry, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow and Matt LeBlanc. Photo: NBC 3rd Rock From the Sun was funnier. Mad About You sweeter. Will & Grace was…

Bad Santa

It begins with a Santa throwing up in the alley behind a bar. He then goes on swearing, being mean to children and sodomizing fat women. The bad Santa is…

O Brother Where Art Thou: Men of Constant Sorrow

John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson and George Clooney. Photo: Universal In Preston Sturges’s classic film Sullivan’s Travels (1941), Joel McCrea’s character, a Hollywood movie director, sets out to experience “the…

Bridget Jones’s Diary

There was a lot of pressure on the filmmakers to turn Helen Fielding’s bestseller, about a 32-year-old Londoner who senses the time has come to choose between Mr. Right and…

Home Improvement 

In this likable family sitcom, stand-up comedian Tim Allen was the clumsy host of “Tool Time”, a do-it-yourself TV show. All too often “the Toolman” was injured in his work…