Release Date: August 25th, 2009 Running Time: 527 minutes The Show The midseason replacement: a show that attempts to pick up the slack after a pilot has failed to gain an audience. It’s a tough position for a show to be in as it puts tons of pressure on the series to perform with huge viewer numbers....

Release Date: July 21st, 2009 Running Time: 89 minutes The Show For a while Prison Break annoyed me on a weekly basis. The show was overexposed and no matter where I turned, I couldn’t get away from it. I watched parts of the first season but never got into the show, and yet through countless promos...

According to QuentinTarantino, without finding Christopher Waltz, there would have been no INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS. It was essential to Tarantino to cast actors with impeccable linguistic skills to match equally superlative acting talents. He found both in Christopher Waltz. Humble to a fault, Waltz’s...

Release Date: August 18th, 2009 Running Time: 473 minutes The Show When I saw the very first Simpsons episode I never guessed that it would still be on the air twenty years later, and still hilarious to boot! No other show in my life has consistently entertained me for so long to the point where I...

Funny People 2009, 145mins, R Director: Judd Apatow Writer: Judd Apatow Cast includes: Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, Leslie Mann, Eric Bana, Jonah Hill, Jason Schwartzman Release Date: 31st July 2009 “Funny People” is the most mature work yet to emerge from writer/director extraordinaire Judd Apatow....

Release Date: August 11th, 2009 Running Time: 336 minutes The Show Cable has really stepped up its television game in the past few years. HBO is currently rocking the ratings with True Blood, and Showtime has found critical success in Dexter and Weeds. But with every hit series the pressure is on...

From writer/director Guillermo Arriaga comes THE BURNING PLAIN, a romantic mystery about a woman on the edge who takes an emotional journey back to the defining moment of her life. Oscar-winner Charlize Theron plays Sylvia, a beautiful restaurant manager whose cool, professional demeanor masks the sexually...

Director Dave Boyle (“Big Dreams Little Tokyo”) returns with WHITE ON RICE, the comedic story of Jimmy (Hiroshi Watanabe, “Letters from Iwo Jima”), a misguided 40-year-old divorceé trying to navigate his way through a new life in America and out of his sister Aiko’s (Japanese Academy Award...

Let’s not beat around the bush. INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS is glorious!!!!! The film is so enjoyable, so entertaining, so smartly written, so well crafted, so beautifully lensed and so well acted that I didn’t want it to end. This is without a doubt the best film of Quentin Tarantino’s career and...

Release Date: August 18th, 2009 Running Time: 1063 minutes The Show With the fall television season about to begin expect even more outrage from “concerned” parents over various television shows. Forget the fact that you can literally turn off a television—these people won’t be satisfied until...