(15) Dir Zack Snyder US 2006. As the leonine David St Hubbins of Spinal Tap once said, there’s a fine line between clever and stupid. In modern cinema, the line between films and computer games is also becoming almost indistinguishably fine and this film staggers between very clever and very stupid at regular turns. As…
Clueless Again, it’s something that’s not new but it’s still well worth a plug. First broadcast 11 years ago, it’s a spin-off from the film of the same name. And although Rachel Blanchard has replaced Alicia Silverstone in the lead role, it’s pretty much the same cast, including a young Donald ‘Turk from Scrubs’ Faison.…
(PG) Dir Mark Steven Johnson US 2006. The young stunt rider Johnny Blaze sells his soul to arch-demon Mephistopheles in exchange for his father being cured of cancer. Johnny goes on to become the best stunt rider of them all, walking away from crash after crash when he should have died, but tortured by the…
Beauty And The Geek, dubbed the ‘ultimate social experiment’, is the latest reality show to hit the small screen. Already in its third season in the US and a British version in the bag, the show thrusts together two of the most enduring stereotypes. Are pretty girls really that stupid? And why can’t nerdy boys…
Quality and popularity aren’t always synonymous. Or put simply, people love rubbish. When the British were asked in 1999 to vote on the most significant moments in television, they proved that the public aren’t to be trusted over matters like this. Del Boy from Only Fools And Horses falling over in a bar was ranked…
Like her former Seinfeld co-stars Jason Alexander and Michael Richards, Julia Louis-Dreyfus has found life after the hit series tough going. All that’s changed though, with her Emmy award-winning show The New Adventures Of Old Christine. As the series arrives in the UAE this week, Time Outlooks at how Julia beat the curse of Seinfeld.…
Emily’s Reasons Why Not And so the quest to make a replacement for Sex and the City goes on. Staring Heather Graham and based on the chick-lit book of the same name, its premise is sadly as unoriginal as 90 per cent of those predictable tomes. Emily is the editor of self-help books but has…
Family-oriented sitcoms generally suck. They’re heavy on the syrupy sentiments, full of impossibly good-looking people who begin to irritate you well before the first ad break and, worst of all for a comedy, they’re generally not funny. And no amount of canned laughter is going to convince us otherwise. So when something good does come…
Matt Pomroy 