Why is it foreign movies are so much better at showing normal people?  The characters in American movies are always so... foreign.  This rental is a good alternative to anything resembling a script J.Lo's agent has recommended she audition for.

Incredibly cheezy, plotless flick that is only noteworthy as an example of every special effects technique available to filmmakers of the time.  MST3K commentary track not included, but you can't help but mke up your own.

He's obviously overcompensating for years of bottling up his Tourette's after being contractually gagged by Disney (in both senses of the word), but that's perhaps what's funniest about this performance.  Admittedly, I've seen him do better standup elsewhere (i.e., YouTube), but this isn't bad.

Ostensibly an evening in an auditorium with a director, it has about as much to do with film analysis as any of the entries in the "An Evening with Kevin Smith" series.  Really, it's more a stand-up performance from a guy with really great stories and incredibly funny observations.  I enjoyed it more than most of his movies, honestly, and I consider myself a fan.

Three discs in, it's finally getting to the meat of what the show would evolve toward, but it's still not as sophisticated as it would eventually become.  Some good set-ups for pranks though.

The first disc wasn't a fluke.  I really didn't expect to like this, but I do.  A lot.

I've never seen a more narcisitic filmmaker in my life.  Seriously.  Who sets up a camera to film himself for a(n incredibly pretentious and amateurish) documentary when he's making an emergency phone call about his mother's overdose?  What a fucking piece of shit.

Two short films.  The first is the basis of 12 Monkeys and is noteworthy for using nothing but still photography (i.e., it's like a photocomic with audio), but it isn't that good.  The second film is worse.  12 Monkeys is definitely worth seeing, however.

Ironically, Porky's was more honest about exploring teenage sexuality and satirizing the ignorance of those at that awkward age, probably because it isn't bogged down in the autobiographical nostalgia this film falls victim to.

More of the same.  No, I mean that in a good way.  Keep it up, guys!  This is possibly one of the three best shows on television at the moment.

Okay, some folks are never going to like concept rock anymore than they'd dig opera, but I grew up with Pink Floyd The Wall, so even making the effort these days gets you an A+ in my book.  That these guys are still doing it with conviction and good musicianship is bonus.

I still don't really know what this was about, but I liked it.

No big changes this season for once (unless you count with the cast).  Lots of hotties though.  They finally got a good one for a bad guy, er, girl.

Okay, every episode of this show is almost exactly the same, but if you saw it when you were 10 years old, it was awesome.  Funny how time-travel works.

Sure, it's basically just another Cannonball Run or It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, but you know what's been missing from the cineplex for the past generation?  Another Cannonball Run or Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

Ashley Judd has years taken away from her for a murder she didn't commit.  I know it's only two hours (less if you figure I'm FFwding), but I didn't do anything to be robbed of those precious moments I wish I had back instead of watching this.

Yes, I'm finally getting around to seeing it.  Stephen Baldwin likes to pretend he never made this movie since he went rightwing nut job.  True story.  Ironically, his distancing act comes at the point when this is honestly no more shocking than any other romantic comedy.  It's cute enough; I liked it even if I hadn't been imprinted in the '90s with a crush on Lara Flynn Boyle's Twin Peaks.

The spaceship made from junk soars, but the filmmakers crash when they run out of ideas in the third act.  It would have been better if they'd just left it open-ended about two-thirds of the way through so that they'd save the disappointment for the sequel the way so many other '80s movies did.

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