Articles by Ian Mackenzie

Apocalypto

Mel Gibson

PUBLISHED Mar 13, 2007

The words "meat grinder” come to mind; Apocalypto is a kinetic splatter of ground human flesh with a great plot, strong acting and handful...

SCTV: Best of the Early Years

PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2007

"How are ya?” Funny man Bobby Bittman’s (Eugene Levy) limp catchphrase is an unlikely place to look for the comedic heart of the SCTV beast...

The Science of Sleep

Michel Gondry

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2006

Yet another film about a nearly insane Mexican lured to Paris by his distant mother on the promise of a job illustrating calendars. True to...

What's Eating Gilbert Grape: Special Collector's Edition

Lasse Hallström

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

For a screenplay with relatively little dialogue, there’s a lot going on in this portrait of small town America and its requisite angst. Ob...

Fun With Dick And Jane

Dean Parisot

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006

The self-important writer/director commentary is the worst thing about this DVD, which is itself an unnecessary (if competent) remake of th...

The Man

Les Mayfield

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

"It's like a dream come true," says The Man screenwriter Steve Carpenter during one of this DVD's "making of" featurettes, "Sam and Eugene;...

Two for the Money

D.J. Caruso

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

Al Pacino revisits familiar territory as an ailing gambling mogul guiding a rookie numbers picker up through the ranks of his sports bettin...

The Weather Man

Gore Verbinski

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

Despite director Gore Verbinski's insistence (on one the DVD's extra features) that The Weather Man is not a genre piece, the film's explor...