Articles by Peter Knegt

Around the World in 80 Days

Frank Coraci

PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

The folks over at Disney got some splainin' to do. Why would they feel that giving $110 million to the remake of Around The World In 80 Day...

Barbershop Collector's Set

PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

Every year around this time a large variety of DVD boxed sets hit stores. Sometimes, these boxed sets are extensive and innovative, worth y...

The Simple Life 2: Road Trip

PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

Of the million or so reality shows that the Fox network has cranked out, The Simple Life was one of its few true success stories. The origi...

Troy

Wolfgang Peterson

PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

Based on Homer's epic poem (Homer even receives screen credit!), Troy was part of a trend in 2004: big, expensive epics with big, expensive...

Closer

Mike Nichols

PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

A lot of people are not going to enjoy Closer. It is a dark, cold and generally distressing film about the state of romance in today's incr...

A Very Long Engagement

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

Adapted from the beloved novel, A Very Long Engagement tells the story of a war-torn romance in which it's presumed that the man has died i...

Ocean's Twelve

Steven Soderbergh

PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

Leave it to Steven Soderbergh and his neo-rat pack of actors to make a popcorn sequel so stylish and so fun that it doesn't even matter how...

Popular: The Complete First Season

PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2004

I remember vaguely watching Popular when it aired about four years ago and I was never particularly impressed. It seemed to me a generic hi...