The ideal comedy for any night is Uptown Saturday Night, a breezy joy pairing Sidney Poitier (who also directs) and Bill Cosby as pals out to recover a stolen wallet and the winning lottery ticket it holds. Henry Belafonte, Richard Pryor and Flip Wilson are also in this “fast, funny immensely likable film” (Chicago Daily News). It’s Poitier and Cosby again in A Piece of the Action, portraying wily crooks who rip off the rip-off artists exploiting the poor. James Earl Jones is th Read more…
Tyler Perry, impresario of the gospel theater circuit, brings his gun-toting granny-drag persona Madea back to the big screen in Madea’s Family Reunion, a sequel to the surprise hit Diary of a Mad Black Woman. In addition to being saddled with an unruly foster teen (Keke Palmer, The Wool Cap), Madea has two troubled nieces: Lisa (Rochelle Aytes, White Chicks), who’s engaged to an abusive and controlling investment banker (Blair Underwood, Something New); and Vanessa (Lisa Arrind Read more…
The Addams Family Director Barry Sonnenfeld (Men in Black) brings his distinctly cartoonish sensibility to this feature film version of the old Charles Addams comic strip. Anjelica Huston was born to play Morticia Addams, matriarch of the ghoulish Addams clan, while the late Raul Julia is a very agreeable, lusty Gomez. But it’s Christina Ricci who arguably steals the show as their stone-faced daughter, Wednesday. As is often the problem with adaptations of comics or television s Read more…
Having built a name for himself playing Apollo Creed in the Rocky movies, Carl Weathers hoped to launch his own action-hero franchise as the wishfully named Action Jackson. But this first film never took off and it turned into a one-movie series. Weathers plays Jackson, a police sergeant so nicknamed because he always seems to be where the action is. He runs afoul of an evil auto magnate (Craig T. Nelson), who promptly sets about putting Jackson in the middle of a jackpot for mu Read more…
Review
A forceful, often infuriating story about Big Oil and little people. –Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
Three years in the making, this cinéma-vérité feature from acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger (Brother’s Keeper, Paradise Lost, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster) is the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial legal cases on the planet. An inside look at the infamous $27 billion “Amazon Chernobyl” case, Crude is a real-life high s Read more…
A 26-episode World War II documentary, Victory at Sea is one of the most important series in the history of television. Made in 1952, the show was a huge success, winning many major awards and even spawning albums featuring the orchestral score by Richard Rodgers, best known for his musicals with Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II. Produced with the full cooperation of the U.S. Navy, each 26-minute program consists of black-and-white wartime film set to a narration by Leonard Read more…
Tags: 1952, Channel, Documentary, History, Legendary, Victory, World
Family Guy lives! That’s great news for the devoted fans who watched in record numbers the reruns on Cartoon Network and made the Family Guy DVDs bestsellers. It’s bad news for Mel Gibson, Christina Aguilera, Justin Timberlake, Jimmy Fallon, Rob Schneider, Skeet Ulrich, Corey Haim, My Two Dads, and other pop-culture detritus this show’s writers take infinite delight in kicking when they’re down (or up, for that matter). The long, long, awaited fourth season begins with a bravado Read more…
Jack Slater is an action-film hero played by Arnold Schwarzenegger. An old projectionist (Robert Prosky) hands a magic movie ticket to Jack’s biggest preteen fan (Austin O’Brien), and the kid steps right inside the latest Jack Slater film, becoming the actor star’s sidekick in gunfights and car chases. But when Jack’s nemesis (Charles Dance) gets his hands on the ticket, the fight busts out into the real world and Jack (à la Toy Story’s Buzz Lightyear) refuses to believe he’s a Read more…
Item Name: My Family; Studio: New Line Home Video
Three-generational epic saga of the Sanchez family as told by the eldest son.
About the Actor
These days Jerry and Esther Hicks are on a New York Times Best Seller joyride. Book after book: Ask and It Is Given, Money and The Law of Attraction, The Amazing Power of Deliberate Intent…it just goes on and on. People cannot seem to get enough of the wisdom and humor of Abraham, a joyful, loving and witty non-physical group consciousness whom Esther calls infinite intelligence and Jerry calls the purest form of love I have ever seen. Check out their website fo Read more…
Tags: 2009, Action, Attraction, Episode, Loose