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Interview: David Zucker, legendary spoof comedy writer/director
Posted by: Matthew Ardill • November 10, 2025 @ 3:22pm
David Zucker has written and directed some of the biggest comedies of all time, including Airplane! and The Naked Gun.
Review: Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
Posted by: Dean Kish • August 27, 2004 @ 11:59am
Does anyone remember those old jungle serials? How about the Tarzan films of the 1930s and 1940s starring Johnny Weissmuller? What about the Tarzan TV series of the 1970s with Ron Ely?
Well all of these in some shape or another came to mind as I watched the low-budget horror sequel, Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid.
Ben Kingsley may not be God, but he is Ghandi. He won an Oscar for Ghandi, but that was more than twenty years ago, a time when we thought Duran-Duran was the future of music and the only "reality-show" on television was the news.
As it looks on paper, Without a Paddle is just another one of those gross-out comedies. You also may classify it as just another teen comedy. Well I beg to differ.
In Without a Paddle, Dan (Seth Green), Jerry (Matthew Lillard), and Tom (Dax Shepherd) reunite after the passing of their childhood friend, Billy.
In 1973, a little film directed by William Friedkin (The French Connection) was released that caused mass hysteria, fainting, and undying controversy. The film launched newcomer Linda Blair into the spotlight and set a benchmark for psychological horror films to come.
Susan (Blanchard Ryan) and Daniel (Daniel Travis) are a normal couple. Both overworked to the point of near exhaustion, they cherish the time they get to spend together when they can both come together in the same room.
Jack Linden (Mark Ruffalo) is not your run-of-the-mill husband and college professor. Married to his wife Terry (Laura Dern), he is the father of one little girl and one little boy, but it's been a long time since he's truly been happy.
Just five short years ago, Amelia (Mia) Thermopolis (Anne Hathaway) was your regular run-of-the-mill teenager. Gawky and awkward with nerdy glasses and hideous braces, she was hardly the most popular girl at her San Francisco high school.
Sometimes as a film critic you have to see movies you don't know anything about or particularly care to know anything about. It's pretty much par for the course in this line of work. Most days I don't mind it and I tend to only really see what I want to see and let the other ones pass me by without a second thought.
Returning to the silver screen for the first time in 3 years, Michael Mann returns to what made him famous: the gritty crime drama.
Mann's best films were always housed in gritty underground themes that produced some of the most unique scenes and memories of dialogue.
"You can never go home again."
Firstâ€"time filmmaker and screenwriter Zach Braff (TV's Scrubs) zeroes in on what it takes to feel again and what it takes to come home once more in Garden State.
Braff stars as Andrew Largeman, a struggling L.A. actor who returns home to New Jersey after the sudden passing of his mother.
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