Why was everyone around this time so interested in Nazi secrets from 30+ years ago?  Go rent The Boys from Brazil instead.

Remember when Eric Clapton did Unplugged and blew everyone away by playing a different style and bringing in songs no one knew he knew?  This is Tommy Lee Jones' Unplugged.  It's worth it.

I felt as lost as the protagonists did in the beginning of this movie, what without a plot or any semblance of a story.  The cop was a hot live version of a butch Lara Croft, but looked about as realistic as the insanely irrelevant monsters.  The only thing scary about this movie is the prospect of a sequel.

On the commentary, Jack Nicholson narrates the opening scene, "A man in search of something.  Enough of a story for (director) Antonioni."  Actually, no real story ever emerges, no plot developments, nothing.  It's just a lot of footage shot around a  premise too shallow to wade in.  The only thing that's notable is the lengthy closing shot... and it doesn't come soon enough.

Great cast and a decent enough premise, but this show moves so slowly that it never gains enough airspeed to get any lift.  The girls are cute though.

The show keeps growing on me.  I have no idea why, especially considering how much I hate the dvd's menu.

There's almost nothing new here, but you forgive them because it's told well.  But then you get a great ending and you like it a bit more than you thought you were going to.   Awwwww.  Isn't that a great story?  Still, it's hardly Best Picture material.

Not bad stuff.  Around this point in the series it was evolving into the great show it would become just as soon as they added Chiana and her cute ass to the cast.

Great acting and a terrific premise, but ultimately it's got more holes in the plot than [insert X-rated analogy here].

Okay, yes, I had it in for this one in the beginning, but it has quickly climbed out from beneath the shadow of the BBC program on which it was based.  Steve Carell is an amazing actor who doesn't seem remotely uncomfortable about making the audience uncomfortable.

Here again I thought this was a standard story told exceptionally well.  It had style.  It had better, all things considered.

You can smell desperation brewing in the writers' office when they start giving Lane her own storylines to the exclusion of the suddenly and unnecessarily boring title characters.

Quite possibly the most confused movie ever made, and I'm not talking about anything related to its subject matter.  It can't decide if it is a pseudo-documentary full of gravitas and psycho-babble or an experimental film merging early psychedelia with sexuality.

It's neither great nor wonderful, but Judy Greer is, and I will admit I rented just to see her even though I lucked out and got to see her in her underwear and then half a nipple later on.  I guess that's nothing "new" either, but I'm happy.

As far as Hellraiser movies go, this one wasn't too bad, but then again, they lowered the bar considerably after the first couple in the series.  Incidentally, Kari Wuhrer can actually act and looks good.  Hello?  Hollywood?  Call her and give her some decent work, especially in movies where she's indecent.

Ricky Gervais returns!  While it isn't nearly as good as the original BBC version of The Office, it's still a fun show.  Funnier still are the outtakes on the disc, primarily because the most hysterical thing in the universe is Ricky laughing during a take.  I'm not kidding you.

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