Seinfeld: New York State of Mind
Photo: NBC The seminal TV show of the 1990s started out as nothing special at all. It was a show about nothing, but it quickly turned into something. Stand-up comedian…
Elf
A young man (Will Ferrell) who was raised as an elf at Santa’s workshop at the North Pole arrives in New York to find his real father. Director Jon Favreau’s…
Home Alone 4
This one makes the third film look pretty good. It’s a TV movie that takes us back to Kevin, with a new kid replacing Mac Culkin, who once again runs…
Naked Gun 33 ⅓: The Final Insult
Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen), the pride of the LAPD, has retired but is called back into action for an undercover assignment in a prison. This third chapter offers a few…
The Naked Gun 2 ½: The Smell of Fear
Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) stumbles over a conspiracy hatched by powerful representatives of the oil, nuclear and coal industries. This sequel is quite similar to the 1988 original; Priscilla Presley’s…
Love Actually
Writer Richard Curtis’s directing debut is one big, loveable mess, a romantic comedy with a huge cast of people who keep falling in love with each other. There are too…
3rd Rock From the Sun
This sitcom became an opportunity for the versatile actor John Lithgow to tickle our funny bone – and he was good at it. The show featured four aliens that came…
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…
Frasier: The Finer Things in Life
Photo: NBC I have a special love for this show. There are certain traits in the character of Frasier Crane that reminds me of myself. The close but competitive relationship…
‘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…