Articles by James Keast

The Muppet Show: Season 2

PUBLISHED Aug 17, 2007

This variety show ran in prime time and invited the biggest stars of the day to participate in order to amuse nearby parents but as the sta...

Heroes: Season One

PUBLISHED Aug 17, 2007

The words comic book, fan boy and geek will be thrown about willy-nilly in reference to NBC’s breakout hit Heroes in the weeks following th...

Taxi Driver

Martin Scorsese

PUBLISHED Aug 15, 2007

Taxi Driver burst onto the film scene in 1976 and planted itself in the apex of cinema conscience, giving Martin Scorsese an undisputed sea...

Minnie Driver

The Exclaim! Questionnaire

PUBLISHED Aug 13, 2007

Minnie Driver - who created memorable characters in Grosse Point Blank and Good Will Hunting and is doing her career-best work in Showtime...

The Brown Bunny

Vincent Gallo

PUBLISHED Aug 2, 2007

Is The Brown Bunny the worst film ever? Nope — such a brag-worthy distinction gives this wafer-thin effort too much credit. Followi...

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Philip Kaufman

PUBLISHED Jul 30, 2007

Terror translates across several eras in The Body Snatchers, from Jack Finney’s 1955 novel through four remakes: Invasion of the Body Snatc...

300

Zack Snyder

PUBLISHED Jul 30, 2007

In adapting the story of 300 Spartan warriors who hold off the greatest Persian armies in a three-day clash that changes Greek history, dir...

The Simpsons Movie

David Silverman

PUBLISHED Jul 27, 2007

I saw Bart’s doodle. That’s about as far as The Simpsons Movie is willing to take its PG-13 rating in this long-awaited big screen adaptati...