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Review: THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT

January 24, 2004 Rich Drees

According to the adherents to the mathematical discipline known as Chaos Theory, something as small as the flapping of a butterfly’s wings in one part of the world can set into motion an unpredictable chain [click for more]

2003 National Film Registry Picks

December 28, 2003 Rich Drees

The Library of Congress has announced its 25 picks for this year’s addition to its list of “Culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant films on the National Film Registry. This year’s titles span the length of [click for more]

Review: BIG FISH

December 26, 2003 Rich Drees

At the beginning of Big Fish, we are told by Will Bloom (Billy Crudup) that when it comes to “Telling the story of my father’s life, it is impossible to separate fact from fiction, the [click for more]

Review: CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN

December 26, 2003 Rich Drees

Tom (Steve Martin) and Kate Baker (Bonnie Hunt) always wanted a large family, but they weren’t quite prepared when they eventually had twelve children. Working together as a tag team, they manage to keep the [click for more]

Review: THE FOG OF WAR

December 21, 2003 Rich Drees

During the turbulent 1960s, no figure was perhaps more controversial than former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. A polarizing figure, hailed as a genius by some while regarded by others as a con man or [click for more]

Review: CALENDAR GIRLS

December 20, 2003 Rich Drees

Chris (Helen Mirren) and Annie (Julie Walters) are old friends who have become increasingly bored with the monthly meeting of their women’s group and its unending stream of stultifying speakers on such topics as the [click for more]

Review: THE HEBREW HAMMER

December 19, 2003 Rich Drees

Got a problem that needs solving before Friday sundown? Than you need Mordechai Jefferson Carver, the Hebrew Hammer. The Hebrew Hammer is a wickedly funny parody of 70s blaxploitation films, only substituting a Jewish hero [click for more]

Review: THE LAST SAMURAI

December 6, 2003 Rich Drees

The conflict between technological advancement and the retention of a more traditional way of doing something is as old as technological advancement itself and as new as the music industry’s conflict with internet file sharing [click for more]

Review: HAUNTED MANSION

November 27, 2003 Rich Drees

On one of comedian Eddie Murphy’s old albums he does a bit about how black people would never stick around a haunted house the way the white couple did in the horror classic The Amityville [click for more]

Review: BAD SANTA

November 26, 2003 Rich Drees

If the title and the film’s R rating aren’t enough to clue you in, let me drive it home for you. Bad Santa is not in any way, shape or form a movie for kids. [click for more]