Marty McKee

Hidalgo offers quite a ride even if it travels off course Hidalgo is the sort of old-fashioned adventure they say Hollywood doesn’t make any more. It has cowboys and Indians, a beautiful princess, sword fights, killer leopards, a daring rescue, a villain sporting a black goatee, and much more. You would think that the central […]

Starsky & Hutch parody isn’t quite the joyride it could have been Zebra Three is back, burning rubber and breaking rules just like in the old days in Starsky & Hutch, an amusing parody of the ’70s cop show. Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul literally pass the car keys to Starsky’s souped-up red-and-white Gran […]

Give credit to star and co-producer Ice Cube for making Barbershop 2 the congenial comedy that it is. Not only is his quietly keen performance as shop owner Calvin the straw that stirs the personalities of the disparate types who inhabit his character’s shop, but his Cube Vision company also made a wise decision to […]

My Boss’s Daughter Tick . . . tick . . . tick . . . That’s the sound of Ashton Kutcher’s 15 minutes of fame quickly (and mercifully) reaching an end. With two hit television series (including the MTV reality show Punk’d), a high-profile romance with 40-something Demi Moore, and the threat of more important […]

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen “I’m waiting to be impressed,” says Allan Quatermain (Sean Connery) when confronted with the concept of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. And, frankly, so was I after the negative buzz about the project, including a notorious on-set physical confrontation between Connery and director Stephen Norrington. This cross between “Classics Illustrated” […]

2 Fast 2 Furious A more apt title for Universal’s sequel to its surprise 2001 hit The Fast and the Furious, would be 2 Stupid 2 Boring. Director John Singleton and his screenwriters jettisoned everything that was interesting and exciting about the original, replacing them with, well, nothing really. Perhaps Singleton believes in doing things […]

Down With Love Is it a romantic comedy or a Mad parody of one? Down With Love, directed with great panache by Peyton Reed (Bring It On), works as both, providing big laughs and an affectionate nod at a quaint sub-genre relegated to the realm of afternoon airings on the Turner Classic Movies network. Down […]

A Mighty Wind It’s always fun to see great actors firing on all cylinders. That’s really what’s at the root of A Mighty Wind, the latest “mock documentary” by Christopher Guest, a Saturday Night Live alum and co-creator of This Is Spinal Tap. Guest previously skewered small-town theater in the very funny Waiting for Guffman […]