by Cliff Vaughn | Aug 4, 2006 | Opinion
Even cows come of age, and in “Barnyard,” they do it like “Dogs Playing Poker” jacked up on bovine growth hormone. Writer-director Steve Oedekerk delivers plenty of hilarious moments for children and adults in this Paramount-Nickelodeon film,...
by Cliff Vaughn | Jul 26, 2006 | Opinion
Steve Oedekerk hopes his new movie, “Barnyard,” will succeed for audiences when it hits theaters Aug. 4. “Succeeding for an audience” or “landing for an audience” was a notion the 44-year-old writer-producer-director referenced...
by Cliff Vaughn | Jul 25, 2006 | Opinion
The PBS documentary series “P.O.V.” debuts its fifth film tonight with “The Tailenders,” by filmmaker Adele Horne. Horne meshes “essay filmmaking” with an observational approach in her analysis of how a group of Christian...
by Cliff Vaughn | Jul 21, 2006 | Opinion
The Learning Channel’s new eight-part reality series, “The Messengers,” begins this Sunday with a “simple yet lofty goal: to find America’s next great inspirational speaker.” Ten individuals from various backgrounds have been chosen...
by Cliff Vaughn | Jul 20, 2006 | Opinion
Al Gore nabbed this week’s cover of Entertainment Weekly. Surely, some will say, strange things are afoot on Planet Earth. “An Inconvenient Truth”—a documentary about global warming starring Al Gore presenting his topical slide show—won’t go...
