Freaky Friday
Tess Coleman and her daughter Anna (Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan) find it impossible to communicate with each other; when a spell in a fortune cookie makes them switch bodies,…
Joey
Joey was the only character on Friends to get a spin-off... but it never matched the success of the original series. Better than its reputation, Joey always paled in comparison;…
The Pink Panther
The coach of the French national soccer team is murdered and his huge, famous Pink Panther diamond ring is stolen; it’s up to Inspector Clouseau (Steve Martin) to find the…
Scary Movie 4
Cindy (Anna Faris) moves into a haunted house and familiarizes herself with the neighbor (Craig Bierko)... but then aliens attack Earth. Director David Zucker’s second stab at this franchise mainly…
The Naked Gun: Nursing a Legacy
O.J. Simpson, Leslie Nielsen and George Kennedy. Photo: Paramount It opens with a meeting where the most anti-American leaders of the world have congregated to discuss a major plot to…
Everybody Loves Raymond
One of the best-loved sitcoms of its time, Everybody Loves Raymond successfully avoided the schmaltz that seems mandatory whenever a family with small children is depicted on a TV show.…
Fawlty Towers: Keeping Up Appearances
Photo: BBC The Monty Python’s Flying Circus gang are staying at a hotel in the British vacation resort of Torquay and are absolutely amazed at the incompetence of the hotel…
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…