

Columns By Leonard KladyKlady@moviecitynews.com
Jackass or No Jackass!
The American public has voted and in this cinematic deal or no deal the winner was clearly Jackass: Number Two with an estimated opening frame of $27.9 million. Debuting a distant second was the upscale Jet Li actioner Fearless at $9.8 million. The passed over included the First World War heroics of Flyboys with $5.2…
Read the full article »New documentaries focus on Franken's crusade, Jesus Youth and Tibetan skies
September 20, 2007 Digital Dretzka officially digs documentaries, and, each year, we like to welcome the start of Documentary Season. In fact, we much prefer watching documentaries at 10 in the morning on a Tuesday than attending prime-time screenings of 90 percent of all Hollywood movies on a Saturday night. We also enjoy watching non-fiction…
Read the full article »When Lennon sang, 'Give Peace a Chance,' Nixon and his cronies replied, 'Scram'
September 13, 2006 For the past dozen years, David Leaf and John Scheinfeld have made a pretty decent living churning out rockumentaries and video biographies of several generations worth of pop-culture icons, ranging from Frank Sinatra and Jimmy Durante to Brian Wilson and Jonathan Winters. Indeed, a scan of their resumes might suggest that cable…
Read the full article »Katie Couric era arrives at CBS and a grateful America rejoices … for about 20 minutes, anyway
September 05, 2006 Tonight, I did something I hadn’t done in years. Like millions of other obedient Americans, I tuned into “CBS Evening News With Katie Couric” to see the face that launch’d a thousand sappy magazine and newspaper articles in the months since her departure from NBC in May. Helen of Troy, Katie wasn’t….
Read the full article »Ssssssssummer
Invincible toughed it out to nose past a pair of new films and claim top holiday weekend attraction with an estimated $15.3 million. Debuts of the testosterone thriller Crank and the horror remake The Wicker Man were on its tail with respective grosses of $12.2 million and $11.6 million. The close of the summer season…
Read the full article »Stephen Frears’ ‘The Queen’ and Pedro Almodovar’s ‘Volver’

Stephen Frears and Pedro Almodovar. Two great filmmakers whose work goes great together at film festivals. But more importantly, these two non-US filmmakers have once again achieved what seems to endlessly elude Americans working in either the indie or studio systems. They deliver unique, beautifully made, clean, crisp, compelling films year after year. You can…
Read the full article »Little Children Movie Review

It is hard to figure out where to start discussing Little Children. It is easy enough to say that it is the best American film of 2006 to date, since it is. To say that this film is one of the great sophomore efforts of all time (by director/co-writer Todd Field) is no overstatement. And…
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