Tadpole (2002)

Made for less than $200,000 and shot on digital video, Tadpole doesn’t look like a Hollywood production. Featuring the unlikely cast of Bebe Neuwirth (TV’s Cheers), John Ritter (TV’s Three’s Company), Sigourney Weaver (Aliens) and newcomer Aaron Stanford, this little film takes on a somewhat controversial subject and handles itContinue Reading

The Tao of Steve (2000)

Have you ever seen an overweight, underachieving guy with a thin, beautiful woman on his arm and wondered, “What’s she doing with him?” The Tao of Steve might just answer that question for you. It also might make you question your first impressions of both the man and the womanContinue Reading

The Wood (1999)

Three hours before Roland (Taye Diggs) is scheduled to be married, he disappears. His best friends Mike (Omar Epps) and Slim (Richard T. Jones) find him drunk at his first girlfriend’s house. In their efforts to talk Roland into sobering up and going back to the wedding, the friends beginContinue Reading

A priest walks into a bar…and, wait, stop me if you’ve heard this one. Ok, that’s a pretty bad way to start this review, but it’s how Keeping the Faith starts. In the film, a young Irish priest, named Brian Finn (Edward Norton), walks into his local bar — drunk out ofContinue Reading

The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)

What does a man who has everything do for fun? He steals high-priced works of art for his own amusement. Pierce Brosnan plays Thomas Crown, a businessman that buys and sells companies with little regard for anything other than making money who also possesses a love of art that heContinue Reading

For those of you that immediately flinch when the name Shakespeare is mentioned, and who have all but put seeing this movie out of your mind as a result, let me assure you that this movie is not a drab, dull march down the musty halls of a literary tortureContinue Reading