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SCREWED

By | May 2000

“Screwed” is essentially a genial “Dumb and Dumber-Lite,” without the payroll, that’s been padded, stretched, and teased out to make it (barely) long enough for a theatrical release…

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SCREWED

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"You have to be dumb to kidnap yourself," whines Willard Fillmore (Norm Macdonald), a sad sack, second generation servant/slave (nice alliteration!) to his...

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DINOSAUR

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Every summer Walt Disney releases a big family movie, The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Pocahontas, Mulan, but this year is a little different. ...

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THE BIG KAHUNA

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Big Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey stars in "The Big Kahuna", a story about slick salesmen trying to land the big contract at a swanky reception. If...

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THE ANNIHILATION OF FISH

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"Loneliness ain't no laughing matter," intones retired Jamaican janitor and former mental patient Obidiah "Fish" Johnson (James Earl Jones) solemnly. Yet,...

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BEAT

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They sure didn't do much writing back in those early days; "they" being the now quasi-mythical American figures -- William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and...

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DANCING IN SEPTEMBER

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Thomasina a.k.a. "Tommy" (a painfully winsome Nicole Ari Parker) and George Washington (Isaiah Washington) both came of age as television really hit its...

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BEYOND THE OCEAN

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Director Tony Pemberton, who moved to Russia to make "Beyond the Ocean," didn't exactly win over his Dallas audience with a distasteful Kennedy comment in...

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THE DEVIL'S SWING

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A brief aside before I get to the review: Spanish songs are a lot prettier when you don't read their decidedly un-poetic subtitled translations. I bring...

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LUSH

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Foster Brooks was the last really funny drunk. Joining the late cult star of the old Dean Martin celebrity roasts for a good stiff drink would've been a...

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SWIMMING

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That one of Robert J. Siegal's early films -- "Parades," the first theatrical American film to challenge the U.S.' role in the Vietnam War -- premiered at...

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