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?
Photo: NBC 3rd Rock From the Sun was funnier. Mad About You sweeter. Will & Grace was smarter. Seinfeld was funnier, smarter and… well, not so much sweeter. But Friends…
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
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 real world” as a way of preparing himself…
The Nanny
It was pure coincidence that made Fran (Fran Drescher) from Flushing, Queens the well-to-do Sheffields’ nanny, but she proved to have good influence on the kids. The extremely long romantic…
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…
ALF
An easygoing family sitcom, in spite of a troubled production, in the Mork & Mindy vein, about the chaotic romps of a UFO. Gordon Shumway was his real name, the…
Legally Blonde
This was the movie that presented Reese Witherspoon as a bona fide movie star more than able to turn a project into a cash cow. She is outstanding as the…
Evening Shade
In the 1990s, Burt Reynolds enjoyed some success on television with this agreeable show about a small town in Arkansas called Evening Shade (which incidentally is a real place). The…