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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.

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Review: The Chronicles of Riddick

Posted by: Dean Kish  •  June 11, 2004 @ 11:59am

Who is David Twohy? How did this small budget science-fiction director get saddled with the 100-million-dollar film like The Chronicles of Riddick? He created, wrote, and directed it, of course.

Twohy's 2000 cult favorite Pitch Black was the film that launched Vin Diesel into the minds of movie-goers.

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Review: Garfield

Posted by: Dean Kish  •  June 11, 2004 @ 11:59am

The lovable lazy feline who scarfs lasagna and is a staple in the funny pages of newspapers across the globe comes to the silver screen in a live-action take.

Garfield (voiced by Bill Murray) nearly has a heart attack when his love-struck master Jon Arbuckle (Breckin Meyer) brings home a wily pup named Odie.

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Review: Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban

Posted by: Dean Kish  •  June 4, 2004 @ 11:59am

In the now-classic third book in the "Harry Potter" series, author J.K. Rowling first began to carve her boy-wizard chronicles into a series that could reach beyond a child audience.

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Review: Twist

Posted by: Mark McLeod  •  June 4, 2004 @ 11:59am

There is no questioning the literary genius of Charles Dickens. From A Christmas Carol to Oliver Twist and everything in between, the man was responsible for a number of literary classics. His stories have been told time and time again on both the big and small screens and on stages throughout North America and all over the world.

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Review: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Posted by: Mark McLeod  •  June 4, 2004 @ 11:59am

What is there to be said about Harry Potter that hasn't been said before? The wizard and his universe, created by a then-out-of-work school teacher J.K. Rowling, has gone on to be one of the most successful book franchises in history with massive anticipation for each subsequent book and film release in the series.

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Review: The Day After Tomorrow

Posted by: Dean Kish  •  May 28, 2004 @ 11:59am

I have always been a huge fan of disaster movies, especially the giant all-star cast films of the late 1970s and early '80s. Who can forget the classic disaster moments like Gene Hackman in the conclusion of the Poseidon Adventure or Robert Wagner engulfed in flames in The Towering Inferno?

In the new epic disaster flick, The Day After Tomorrow, climatologist Prof.

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Review: Soul Plane

Posted by: Mark McLeod  •  May 28, 2004 @ 11:59am

Ever since he was a young boy, Nashawn (Kevin Hart) has loved airplanes. Living out by the airport in Inglewood, California, many of the defining moments of his life were accompanied by the sound of airplanes flying overhead.

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Review: Young Adam

Posted by: Mark McLeod  •  May 28, 2004 @ 11:59am

On the surface, Joe (Ewan McGregor) is a seemingly normal man who prefers sitting alone reading a novel to having a wild night out at a local pub. By day he works for Les (Peter Mullan) and Ella (Tilda Swinton) on a barge that travels throughout the many streams and canals in Scotland.

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Review: Saved!

Posted by: Mark McLeod  •  May 28, 2004 @ 11:59am

With Senior year fast approaching for the students at American Eagle Christian High, Mary (Jena Malone) is looking forward to yet another banner year. She's a member of the Christian Jewels, an organization which she describes as sort of a girl gang for Jesus. She's in the "in crowd" and sits next to and hangs out with the most popular girl in school, Hillary Faye (Mandy Moore).

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Review: The Rage in Placid Lake

Posted by: Mark McLeod  •  May 28, 2004 @ 11:59am

Placid Lake (Ben Lee) is certainly not your normal teenager. Slapped with the unusual first name of Placid and made to wear women's clothes at a young age to question the societal norms, his experience in school has been anything but positive. Bullied at a young age and throughout high school, Placid is about to finally enter the adult part of his life.

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