Steve Martin has been out of the public eye for several years now and his last high profile film was 1999's Bowfinger which he wrote and starred in. Joining him this time is Queeen Latifah who is gaining serious ground in hollywood with bigger roles and in particular her roll in the Oscar favorite "Chicago". Even with all the talented physical comedy by these two, it just wasn't enough to pull this film out of the muck of crude racial mud.

Peter Sanderson (Steve Martin) is the divorced, rigid, uptight attorney who still loves his ex-wife (Jean Smart) and feels responsible for his divorce. However, Peter's trying to move on, and he's taken with a witty, mystery lady he's been chatting with on-line. But when she comes to his house for their first face to face encounter, she turns out to be anything but refined, classy, or even a lawyer. Instead, shes a prison escapee, Charlene (Queeen Latifa...Read the entire review

There aren't a whole lot of films that deal with infidelity and adultery with such levity and light-hearted humor as "The Woman in Red". This is why this film is so delightful and watchable. It takes a man going through middle age to a place where obsession for a beautiful woman in red takes over his life. Gene Wilder is truly an enigma outside the circles of the hollywood scene, but when he gets in front of the camera he becomes magical and in this case he is the man directing the film from behind the camera as well.

Theodore Pierce (Gene Wilder) is a middle-aged married advertising executive who isn't quite sure what he wants in life other than the beautiful Woman in Red, Charlotte (Kelly LeBrock). He still trolls around with his rat-pack group of buddies oggling every woman in sight and seems very much in love with his wife, yet Teddy spends all his time and energy relentlessly pursues ...Read the entire review

We've all seen them before - "good cop, bad cop" or the cop who lost his way and fights a moral battle with himself to justify the corruption he now has allowed himself to become a part of. These situations in films and television are nothing new so when a film comes a long to explore this dilemma again, it better have the ability to stand up to experienced scrutiny. Dark Blue succeeds on just about every level.

Dark Blue is set in the hotbed of the L.A. Police Department in April 1992 a few days before the acquittal of four police officers in the beating of Rodney King. Kurt Russell plays Sgt. Eldon Perry Jr., an S.I.S. cop who works in the middle of a corrupt department of the Police and for the most part hesitantly goes along with what he is told to do by his corrupt superior, Jack Van Meter (Brenden Gleeson). S.I.S. Rookie Bobby Keough is the newcomer to the department and gets schoole...Read the entire review

This film may seem like an exercise in misdirection, but it still delivers nicely for the first 60 minutes. It does take on a forced "never-cry-wolf" sort of pattern and therefore leads to certain predictability. This film hinged itself too heavily on the rapid-fire deception in place of what could have been a more engaging story, but ultimately the film does carry a decent amount of entertainment. Pacino and Farrell are very charismatic and without them the film would be very thin.

A brilliant young computer genius, James Clayton (Collin Farrell) is approached for recruitment into the CIA by a slick fast-talking veteran Walter Burke (Al Pacino) who also claims he knows Claytons father and the true story of his death over 10 years earlier. After a bit of Pacino style slick manipulation, Clayton is finally convinced to go along to the CIA training camp for spy school. There he finds a roman...Read the entire review

Who would have guessed that Martin Lawrence could be involved in anything different than what he has delivered in the past. Well this time you don't have to because he's back in another one of the same brands of comical buddy movies we've been subjected to before. This time he is paired up with a new comedy sidekick partner Steve Zahn to retort all his usual comical material as if he hasn't attempted it so many times in the past.

Steve Zahn plays Hank, a cop whose partner is killed (how original) and so is personally motivated to track down those responsible. His gun and badge are taken away after he is accused of a racially motivated crime against Earl Montgomery (Martin Lawrence) who was kicked out of the police academy and is trying to break into a car. Eventually they both find themselves thrown together as security guards looking for the same thugs involved in both a smuggling operati...Read the entire review

I love animation. This is why I am an animator myself. I love all sorts of animated films and cartoons but especially love 3D animation. Much of the stuff I like most adults target at the kids. Well this DVD wins the prize for the strangest animated DVD I have ever seen. It's so bizaar that I had a hard time even classifying it. The makers call it a "Lens" or "Wonderlens" into an underwater alien zoo type of aquarium atmosphere where the viewer is taken on a tour of a large variety of strange imaginative alien creature and their cultures.

This is definitely geared toward children even though they have a kids and an adult tours. I found myself losing interest very fast after I started to watch it. There is no story, it's just a parading of the 23 different alien life forms that Joe Clasen and Susan Ishida dreamed up and animated in somewhat unique albeit simplistic fashion. It's very color...Read the entire review

When I first saw this DVD I assumed it would have the old Walt Disney shows of Walt talking directly to the audience. I rarely watched these shows and figured this one would therefore be somewhat uninteresting - boy was I wrong! I have seen all the bonus features and cool behind the scenes for modern 3D animated features from Pixar and Pacific Data Images where they show the process of creating an animated film, but to see the earliest origins of this same process is truly a gift. We get to see the animators acting out their characters and sketching, background artists, gag men, sound wizards as well as storyboard meetings and the pretty colorist girls. If I seem a bit sentimental about this it's because I am an animator and have specific interest in the process of animated movie making. If you are the kind of person who owns every Disney animation art book then you will love this DVD. There is a total...Read the entire review

The earliest Mickey Mouse cartoons were groundbreaking cinema of the time because they used a very new piece of the film experience - sound. Sound brought Mickey Mouse fame and recognition where none had experienced it before. Walts creation was at the right place at the right time. While these early Mickey cartoons could certainly be considered simplistic by todays standards, they still manage to entertain as they did 75 years ago. Mickey Mouse is without a doubt the most widely recognized and famous cartoon character of all time. He went from being an animated creation to a corporate symbol for the Disney empire.

At an early age I was not very interested in Mickey Mouse. I was mach more interested in watching the Warner Brothers stuff with Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. The Mickey cartoons really don't make me laugh, but they are still fun to watch and almost always make me smile. While mos...Read the entire review

While the "Goof" was certainly never in the spotlight quite like Mickey was, he played an important role in Disney's development and endured to a long history of animated cartoons and films. The half-witted but ever positive floppy dog originally named "Dippy Dawg" got his debut chance in the early Mickey Mouse cartoon "Mickey's Revue". Later he went on to do a wonderful series called the "How-To" cartoons where Goofy is featured showing very comically how to ski, swim, play golf, and many other demonstrated activities while narrated by John Ployardt.

Sadly there is no "Play All" feature on either of the Discs so plopping your child down to watch all the Goofy cartoons will be a problem for parents (Come on Disney, this is a no-brainer). Some of these cartoons were rarely shown on television and many contain what could today be considered offensive to some people. Leonard Maltin makes a br...Read the entire review

Men in Black based on the comic book characters is another semi-fun adventure with our world being inhabited by aliens who live as citizens and disguise themselves as humans.

This films holds with the same tradition of distinct stylings of the first Men in Black film - musical talents of Danny Elfman, Barry Sonnenfeld directing and starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. This time around we have a very similar story unfortunately that doesn't engage as much as the first but still is full of interesting characters, comical situations, and the men in black attitude none-the-less. This time Agent J (Will Smith) is on the job for MIB and must recruit his old partner Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) after time has passed with Agent K working in a post due to him being Neuralized years earlier. By this time Agent J is sick of his job as it just seems all too routine to him. The evil bad-boy (or girl) ...Read the entire review

This is very much geared towards the younger child audiences with slight religious overtones. The specific religious references are sparse, but the over sanitized flavor of the story and the characters is very obviously painted with a religious brush. This animated film is heavy with dialog and a bit hard to follow as I was so inundated with characters talking that it almost could have been made as a radio show. I suppose this was intentional as the characters are vegetables and have no arms or legs or even hands to gesture at all which all tend to be very expensive in 3D animation. Not a lot of development went into these character and instead it seems as though more time was spent developing the story and the message. I found it hard to stay interested in most parts unless there was some action or comedy, but there wasn't much of this to be found.

I am extremely sensitive to religiously ...Read the entire review

Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg are back together again along with Leonardo DeCaprio in the film "Catch Me If You Can". Based on the true story of Frank Abagnale Jr., the Con man turned FBI expert who swindled millions of dollars by successfully posing as an airline pilot, a doctor, and a lawyer all before his 19th birthday. This guy sees the world around him in a very different way than most people do - and he uses it to his advantage in very creative and assertive ways. This is a very different film than Spielberg normally gives us, but I applaud his genius at delivering a rousing and adventurous ride along with our characters as they play hide and seek around the world.

Frank Abignale Sr. (played brilliantly by Christopher Walken) is a small business owner and shrewd business man who is having trouble with the IRS. His son Frank Jr. (Leonardo DeCaprio) is always watching closely to how h...Read the entire review

Recognize that warm feeling you get when you see good friends or family after a long absence? If you love Star Trek as much as I do then you will have this feeling once again when you see this film. The whole family is back, Jean-Luc Picard, Wil Riker, Deanna Troi, Data, Beverly Crusher, Worf, Geordi LaForge, and even cameos some of the others including Wesley Crusher played by Wil Wheaton, and Guinan played by Whoopi Goldberg. This film has a few interesting surprises that I will keep hidden from you during this review, but in general the crew has undergone many changes in the last 4 years making for a new film a welcome addition to the holiday season. This time around we have a new creative team to breath new life into the franchise. Stuart Baird Directs and writing credits go to John Logan, Rick Berman and Brent Spiner.

The Romulans play a heavy roll in this installment and we get to see s...Read the entire review

Pixar came at us first with the all computer animated feature, "Toy Story" - and it was brilliant. As an animator myself I was thrilled to see this finally happen and continue to happen with better and better films like "A Bugs Life", "Toy Story 2", "Monsters Inc.", and the 2 PDI productions, "Antz" and "Shrek", as well a more realistic and experimental CGI films like "Final Fantasy". There has also been a wonderful enhancement of many traditionally animated films with CGI like "Tarzan" and the "Treasure Planet". A new player to the big screen arena is Blue Sky Studios with their amazing film "Ice Age". Blue Sky has been around since 1987, and is responsible for many effects of high profile films such as "Alien Resur...Read the entire review

Extreme Ops equels extreme boredom. Cliffhanger meets Warren Miller? It seems as though someone wanted to make a typical snowboarding/skiing film while adorning it with hollywood action stunts, explosions, guns, bad guys, and really bad lines and then package it up and send it into theaters. I would love to have been a fly on the wall of the meeting where this idea was pitched and actually accepted and funded by Paramount.

Here is the plot (if you are bold enough to call it that). An ad agency is called upon to make an extreme action/sports commercial for a video company with skiers and snowboarders doing extreme stunts like jumping cliffs and outrunning avalanches. They team up with some young punk kids who are full of attitude and rebellious tendencies and travel to the remote mountain range with an unfinished resort as their base of operations. Also residing at this resort secretly is t...Read the entire review

Just how many times does it take a guy diving across the screen in slow motion while firing a gun in each hand and an explosion going off behind him with bullets flying everywhere before it just gets difficult to keep from laughing? It's a shame to watch Steven Seagal fade back into film oblivion with material like this. He is capable of delivering so much more when given the right circumstances. I have really enjoyed many of his films but lately it seems like he is only seen in small roles or given 2nd rate scripts to read. Even in the scenes with Seagal doing his thing with the Martial Arts it's so dark you can barely see the action! Could this be because it was actually a *gasp* body double?

In "Half Past Dead" Steven Seagal plays Sascha Petrosevitch who is apparently an FBI agent undercover although it's never clear as to what his real name is or if he has one. He befriends Nick Frazier ...Read the entire review

The folks at Aardman certainly have my undying respect as animators and talented storytellers. They gave us "Chicken Run", and "Wallace and Gromit" along with a slew of fantastic short films. With "Rex the Runt" we are taken on a ride of the absurd. British humor escapes me somewhat, but I guess this is what gets the Brits laughing. I myself don't find it as hilarious as some do, but I can intellectually see where the humor comes from, it just doesn't appeal to my own sensibilities as much.

With this collection we are treated to a much less technically animated series and much more of a fun wild and stupid ride through the tales of Dog Rex the Runt and his cohorts. Despite the fact they don't look like dogs, the gang includes; eye-patch wearing "Bad Bob", Wendy the snobbish, unstable bored girl, and Rex's pet dog Vince who has Pavorotti-syndrome which means he has unexpected spasms, frequ...Read the entire review

The 6 time Emmy Award winning television series, "Mad About You" was one of the first TV series I can remember that dealt with the intricacies of functioning in a romantic relationship. Instead of polluting the shows with lots of unlikely slapstick scenarios we get a much more fundamental truth as a springboard for which the comedy has much more punch and originality to it. There is also a deep sense of real love and unflinching commitment between Paul and Jamie Buchman that underlines all of the neurotic exchanges between them that gives the show so much life. The chemistry between Helen Hunt (who plays Jamie Stemple Buchman) and Paul Reiser (Paul Buchman) is another huge reason for the shows successful run. Helen Hunt has always mesmerized me with her work and I place her on the top shelf of modern day acting talent. Paul Reiser also flows brilliantly as the Documentary filmmaker Pa...Read the entire review

Owen Wilson and Eddie Murphy team up to look for an invisible top-secret airplane in the re-make of "I Spy". Owen plays secret agent Alexander Scott, who is always being handed the third rate spy jobs and passed over by Carlos (brilliantly played by Gary Cole) the elite spy who gets all the coolest gadgets and who is adored by all the women. Unfortunately Carlos is barely seen in the film, but when he does appear it brought out the largest laughs. Eddie Murphy plays Kelly Robinson, the professional boxer who the president needs to help bring the spys closer to the villains in order to retrieve the invisible airplane. Malcomb McDowell plays Gundars, the all-too obvious villain who also leaves the audience wondering if hollywood has just run out of ways to create original new personalities for the bad guys. McDowell is capable of so much more when given the material to work with, but here our villain is ...Read the entire review

Tim Allen is back for another round as Jolly old Saint Nick in the sequel to 1994 film, "the Santa Claus". After viewing the first film I remember feeling very curious at the end as to how his life would play out now that Scott Calvin was ripped from normal day to day life and thrust into the surreal world of the North Pole with elves and reindeer and Christmas time cheer. What happens the rest of the year? How does he keep in touch with his son? A few of these questions are answered here with a fresh new original story that is very well made to appeal to adults and kids alike.

Eight years have passed and Santa Claus (a.k.a. Scott Calvin, played by Tim Allen) is faced with a new contractual challenge - to find a Mrs. Claus. Santa has also found out that his son Charlie has been in trouble and put on the "naughty" list at the North Pole. The elves come up with a plan to duplicate Santa so ...Read the entire review

Good ol' Clint! The American icon of the squinty-eyed unknown outlaw from the old west brings his directing talents to the screen as medal of honor winner, Gunnery Seargent Thomas Highway, a tough, hardened, beat up veteran Marine with attitude spread thick, raspy voice and extra squint in his eyes.

Thomas Highway is finally returning home to his old unit and tasked with shaping up a group of lazy marines who drastically need motivation and discipline. He butts heads with the Major Malcomb Powers (played by Everett McGill), the commanding officer who lacks combat experience and has a serious problem with an enlisted man under him who has a lot more military experience. This conflict makes for some squinty-eyed staring contests between the confident Highway, and the hostile militant Major Powers who is anxious to prove himself. Thomas Highway is trying to win back the heart of his ex-wife, ...Read the entire review

I went into this film with the expectation that I would be sobbing by the end due to overwhelming emotional content. One of the things I do as an animator is study character design, acting, empathy, storytelling and delivery. I am certainly not a big fan of Anime in the character sense, but in the pure artistic sense I am often dazzled by the beauty of it. I come from the Warner Bros., Disney, Tex Avery school of animated character appreciation so my tendency is towards a much tighter style of movement and acting to deliver a story and characters that evoke empathy in an audience. Anime typically uses a lot of holds where there is no movement at all, or uses animation based on a change in picture every 3 or 4 frames. To contrast this, Disney animation normally changes the image every 1 or 2 frames. This gives a much more fluid and lively picture in every conceivable way.

This film is the s...Read the entire review

There is a strong desire in American for a change. But there may be an even bigger desire for more of the same violent tendencies or even something on the darker side. Why does America have a much higher statistic for gun violence than any other country on earth? This question is the focus for the documentary, "Bowling for Columbine"

I have to applaud anyone that can make a man like Charlton Heston look like a heartless, frightened coward right before your very eyes. This comes as a refreshing splash of truth in an age where celebrities are worshipped by the mindless masses who also devour without question, the heavy diet of gun violence and killing on TV. Old Charlie comes off like the poster boy for rednecks of America. In this interview Michael respectfully asks Mr. Heston about his immediate presence at 2 of the highest profile gun related incidents in America where he spoke as representa...Read the entire review

There is something much more interesting about being small, invisible, and navigating your way through familiar objects that are now HUGE than being an enlarging baby, but in this third installment of the trilogy it becomes somewhat tired, rehashed, and flat.

Wayne Szalinkski is now joined by his brother Gordon Szalinkski (played by Stuart Pankin) in the family business of creating and marketing inventions. Amy and Nick are now gone from the family (and this movie) as they have matured enough to be on their own, so for the children in this film we have Adam Szalinkski (played by Bug Hall) who was the baby at the time of the second movie "Honey, I Blew Up the Kid" and is now 8 years old. The cousins, Jenny and Mick Szalinkski (Allison Mack and Jake Richardson) also join in the fun when the kids take over the house while the parents are miniaturized. To start our story the wives, Diane Szalinks...Read the entire review

We are back for another ride with the Szalinkski family in their wild adventures with Wayne's wild inventions. I hadn't seen this film in a long time so I was curious how it held up in terms of story and effects work to my original viewing back in 1992. I was surprised to find that the matte shots and miniature work fell into the catagories of "really bad" and "pretty good".

In this new installment the Szalinkski family now resides in the Nevada suburbs with an addition to the family, 2 year-old Adam Szalinkski (played by twins Daniel and Joshua Shalikar). Amy Szalinkski is now off to College while Nick is home helping with the daily care of young Adam. Wayne now consults for a large company that is developing an enlarging machine that doesn't seem to work. Wayne is constantly reassuring the family that he will fix the playpen that Adam continually escapes from but throughout the beginning of...Read the entire review

This film holds a lot of nostalgia for me. It came at a time when few people had ever seen the inside of a disco night club. I would be so bold to say that it was "Saturday Night Fever" that was responsible for much of the disco upsurge in the late 70's. While I was much more interested in Star Wars in 1977, "Saturday Night Fever" still made a lasting impression on me for many years to come. I don't imagine that there are very many people over 30 who haven't seen this film, but if you are one of the few who missed it then you owe it to yourself to give it a look.

Tony Manero (John Travolta) is a troubled, young, 22 year old who loves to dance and spend time with his friends at the local disco, "2001 Odyssey" in New Yorks Brooklyn suburbs. Tony is worshipped as a God in the nighttime dance world where he frequently dazzles the crowds with his talents. By day Tony works in a Hardware store wher...Read the entire review

If I find entertainment only in the last 20 minutes of a movie then I would call it a failure. In the movie "Abandon", the entire film seems to hinge on the ending which didn't matter anyway by the time we get there since the body of the film just wasn't interesting. I will admit that a few of the characters were mildly appealing, but it just wasn't enough to save the sinking plot.

Katie Holmes plays Catherine Burke, a senior at an elite college who is under tremendous pressure to finish her thesis, and land a high end job. She also faces a persistent, recovering detective, Wade Handler (Benjamin Bratt) who has been assigned to investigate the dissappearance of her rich ex-boyfriend, Embry Langan (Charlie Hunnam) who is suspected of either being dead, or hiding out somewhere. Despite the dissapearance 2 years earlier, Embry begins to appear in various places and harrass Catherine. An innocent...Read the entire review

"Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" had one goal - to deliver a thrilling adventure of fun and excitement...and it succeeds! That elated feeling I get when I visited Disneyland as a kid is what I look for in Disney films like this. Now available on DVD, this is the family film that will have kids and their parents entertained for years to come.

Meet the Szalinkskis, a typical family of 4 with a very atypical absent-minded inventor for a father, Wayne (played by Rick Moranis) who is hard at work on his new shrink ray invention to pitch to his colleagues at work. Young Nick Szalinski wants to be just like his enthusiastic inventor dad, and does a wonderful job at showing his own ingenuity with plenty of inventions of his own. Amy Szalinski is the teenage daughter who loves boys and going to the mall. Through an accident, Ronald Thompson from next door has hit a baseball into the attic of the Szalin...Read the entire review

If you liked "Boogie Nights" or "Requiem for a Dream" you will probably like "Rules of Attraction". There is a very similar feel to this dark comedic drama. This film shows us in graphic screaming detail just how warped and empty a young persons mind can get when they aren't sent out into the world with the faculties to deal with their own emotions or the tools for connecting with another human being. In a sea of constant chemical dependency we have a young cast of college students who are aching for some kind of connection to the world, but coming up empty.

Sean Bateman (James Van Der Beek) is the local college drug dealer trying to get himself out of constant debt to his unstable, gun swinging supplier Rupert Guest (Clifton Collins Jr.). Sean looks forward to recieving regular anonymous notes of affection from someone nearby but doesn't seem particularly interested in discovering the ide...Read the entire review

I went into this film only knowing it was a Disney fantasy type of movie. "Fear not death, but fear the un-lived life" is the statement this movie attempts to make yet instead takes us on a teenage fantasy escape to never never land. `Tuck Everlasting', is the latest film adaptation from Natalie Babbitt's children's book of the same name. While failing to deliver this message with clever storytelling, it rather boorishly reverts to just coming right and and saying it several times. This kind of story has the potential for wonderful lively characters and rich emotional plotlines, but in order for this to be made into reality it would have to be taken out of the hands of Disney. Instead we get a movie that seems to target very young, naive, weapy eyed teenagers who probably don't have a true appreciation of their own mortality yet to really appreciate this films message.

Soothingly narrated...Read the entire review

Wires wires everywhere! Wow, there is an awful lot of flying around in this movie. All the characters know how to defy gravity in these supernatural martial arts films, but in this film no one is really special since everyone is doing it. There are even many scenes where the wires are clearly visible. I have seen only a handful of martial arts genre films so I am no expert on Hong Kong films, but I have seen several I really like with plans to see many more. It has been said that the real english translation of this film from "Xiao ao jiang hu zhi dong fang bu bai" is "Swordman 2", so I am unaware of why it is now called "the Legend of the Swordsman" on the DVD.

A young swordsman, Ling Wei (Jet Li) and the followers of the Sun Moon Sect are making a journey to the mountains to abandon the violent ways of the swordsmans life. They find that their clans leader, Master Wu, has been overtaken...Read the entire review

This film is a lot of fun. This film has character. I was thinking this might be another of the many dated films that loses its lustre after a few years, but I was surprisingly engaged in this story.

The infamous 60's radical Huey Walker (Dennis Hopper) was on the run for 20 years for illegedly attempting to kill the vice president. Now he's been caught and is heading for jail. FBI escort John Buckner (Kiefer Sutherland) is assigned to escort Huey to jail, but Huey manages to outsmart Walker and take over his identity as the FBI agent while Buchner ends up behind bars. These 2 characters have no idea how much they need each other. Buckner is extremely uptight and rigid in his ways as the eager, buttoned-up FBI agent who will not break a smile. Huey Walker is irresponsible, free-spirited, and full of life and energy. Their dissonant conversations here are really very entertaining and funny....Read the entire review

I have been a huge fan of many struggling filmmakers for several years as the process of making a film has been a huge curiosity since my youth. I loved seeing the documentary about Mark Borchardts adventures in amateur filmmaking titled "American Movie", and I own all of Kevin Smiths films on DVD since I became a fan after seeing "Chasing Amy". Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, who happen to be good friends of Kevin Smith appearing in most of his films, dove into filmmaking and caught the attention of many industry people with their production of "Good Will Hunting". The process of getting exposure to the right people and the right opportunities in Hollywood is a very very difficult one for anyone outside the "big boys club". Matt, Ben, and friend/producer on "Good Will Hunting" Chris Moore discovered this in the process of looking to sell/produce their movie so they decided to create a contest that would a...Read the entire review

There is a very obvious risk with a film like this in the inevitable comparison to Michael Manns adaptation of the book "Red Dragon" by Thomas Harris in his film, Manhunter. I am a huge fan of Michael Manns work and have seen Manhunter many times. Despite my efforts, its very difficult not to think of this when viewing "Red Dragon", directed by Brett Ratner (Rush Hour, The Family Man), and adapted for the screen by Ted Tally (Silence of the Lambs). "Red Dragon" is the prequel to "Silence of the Lambs" which is the prequel to "Hannibal" for those who aren't familiar with the Trilogy of Books of the same name all written by Thomas Harris. I have not read the Novels so I cannot speak to the accuracy of either film in their loyalty to the books. I don't consider this film a remake as much as a different...Read the entire review

Docudrama written and directed by Moisés Kaufman consisting of actual court & media transcripts and hundreds of interviews Kaufman and his Tectonic theatre group did with the townspeople of Laramie, Wyoming a year after the murder of Matthew Shepard, a 22 year old gay freshman at the University of Wyoming. The project plan was to weave these interviews into a stage play and present it to the public to bring more awareness to the subject of hate crimes and ignorance. After seeing this film I am anxious to see the stage play as I hear it is fantastic. I think this film should have been released theatrically, but I understand why it wasn't. In any case it really should have more widespread exposure.

I was deeply saddened seeing this film, but any film that can make me feel deeply is an award winner. This is the kind of film that should be required viewing for students and kids growing up. T...Read the entire review