There were so many places where I kept thinking this movie would live up to its potential and go to one of the dark places on the interesting fringes of its otherwise predictable plot.  It always seemed to be flirting with something better than it was, but by the end I was watching the clock on the player and realizing it was just killing time until it was free to run the credits.

I still can't get over how relatively plotless this season is.  The trademark fast-paced and campy scripting, direction, and perfomances are still the best of their kind, but I have no reason to care.  I just watch it for the hot mommies.

Hackers plus Frantic plus Air Force One.  I am just not a big enough Harrison Ford fan to care about the sum of that formula.

This wasn't great, but it wasn't nearly as bad as it was made out to be by the critics who haunted it.

If you can sit through the pointless, meandering radio show it's based on, you might be able to make it through this pointless, meandering movie.  Usually his meandering has a point, but I think Robert Altman died of boredom directing this mess.

Okay, it's pretty hokey, but I enjoyed it even though the plot synopsis would be shorter than this review.  The end.

Although it gets predictable a short way in, this indie movie by actor and nearly-first-time director Adam Goldberg isn't too bad.  The fast-paced editing is an interesting collage approach to story-telling, even though the average viewer will probably find it too intense and hard to follow.  In other words, I loved his work.

She's like the previously unknown blonde Gilmore Girl who actually stands up for herself.  By constrast, those chicks on that other show have no self respect.

Depressing WWII story about German atrocities in Russia.  The movie-making isn't horrible, but the images are.  Be sure you have titrated up to a therapeutic dose of your anti-depressant of choice before viewing.

More of the same.  I'm getting desperate for reasons more compelling to watch than seeing anyone besides Terri Hatcher's character in jeans.

Finally, it's over.  Only at the last did they finally start developing any intrigue to keep me interested, but in the meantime their viewers invaded other shows and this series got cancelled.

I have no idea what went wrong here, but this was basically a poorly-made, over-long episode of the tv show.  I loved the show, but this project did nothing for me.

This.  This is what a Kevin Smith movie should be.  It's another picture from Daniel Clowes directed by Terry Zwigoff (Crumb and Ghost World).  Now those guys are real artists.

Dani found this little gem loosely based on a true story about an old shoe factory that turned its business around by catering to a seriously niche market: Drag queens.  It's basically that Full Monty formula you already know (and can't really hate), but it turned out to be well-made enough to kick ass in high heels.

There are some terrific satirical points in this Mike Judge picture, but there's so much slapstick comedy coupled with the unfunny Wilson brother (i.e., the one who isn't Owen).  It's interesting on so many levels, but it just doesn't work.

This is one of those "Behind the Music" sorts of shows, only it looks more at audio engineering than drugs and hookers used and abused on the other side of the mixing board.  It's definitely for musicians only, although they ran out of material five minutes from the end and subject you to a live concert performance on a show about a studio album.  Yeah.  Exactly.

It was funny when Lorelai kept hanging up on her mom until I realized that I was vicariously enjoying it as though it were my future mother-in-law, then I felt bad.

Okay, I admit it.  My name is Jim.  I like Pam.  That's why I watch this show.

Picture this: Bruce Willis in his peak in an action comedy (two things Bruce does best).  This had the potential to be a bit better than it was.  Honestly, without the slapstick bits pushing it over the top or the ballast of the incredibly unfunny Andie McDowell dragging it down (was she supposed to be a counterweight?!), it would have been a terrific movie.

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