Zathura: A Space Adventure
Jon Favreau’s film adaptation of Chris Van Allsburg’s children’s book, Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005) is the most visually arresting film of Favreau’s career. Zathura: A Space Adventure marked Favreau’s… Read more »
Tag: 2000s
Tart
Christina Wayne’s film Tart (2001) followed the trend of youth marketed films that looked to emulate Roger Kumble’s Cruel Intentions (1999). While none of these films matched the wit or… Read more »
Is It College Yet?
Created by Susie Lewis and Glenn Eichler as a spin-off of Beavis and Butt-Head, Daria (1997-2002) was one of the seminal television shows of the late nineties. Daria, with its… Read more »
D.E.B.S.
D.E.B.S. (2004) is indisputably a film by Angela Robinson. Not only did Robinson write and direct D.E.B.S., but she also edited the film. The basic idea for D.E.B.S. is to… Read more »
Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen
Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen (2004) was the crest of the wave of Lindsay Lohan’s popularity. For a minute there, one couldn’t go a day without seeing Lohan’s likeness… Read more »
Monkeybone
Henry Selick’s Monkeybone (2001) is a loose adaptation of Kaja Blackley and Vanessa Chong’s comic Dark Town with a heavy dose of Ralph Bakshi’s Cool World (1992) thrown in. When… Read more »
The Replacements
Hoosiers (1986), with its sentimentality and saccharine characterizations, wrote the book on the contemporary sports drama. Every subsequent “feel-good” sports flick, from Remember The Titans (2000) to Friday Night Lights… Read more »
Broadcast Girl
Broadcast Girl (2008) is a SOV pinku film directed by Takayuki Tamura. Tamura’s career as a filmmaker has focused exclusively on this erotic genre without any sense of strong stylization… Read more »
Black Christmas
Glen Morgan’s remake of Black Christmas (1974) approaches the earlier film by Bob Clark in much the same way as Rob Zombie approached his remake of John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978)…. Read more »
17 Again
It’s true that the most unbelievable thing in a film about a man who turns into his high school self is that when Matthew Perry was 17 he looked like… Read more »
