Intimate Portrait: Margot Kidder (2000) Review

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(More customer reviews)Truly a one-of-a-kind actress. Margot's career (and life, for that matter) is one of the most interesting ever to emerge from Hollywood. Margot, along with costars, friends and family, discusses the incredible high and low points she's endured over the past few decades with humor, honesty and warmth. When I was five years old, I remember seeing Superman: The Movie in theaters for the first time and saying, "Mommie, WHO is THAT! " At that moment, I developed a permanent crush on Lois Lane which has since developed into great respect and admiration. It's very exciting to see her best movies being released on DVD this year (Superman, Sisters, Quackser Fortune has a Cousin in the Bronx) and it's even more exciting to see her working steadily again (Common Ground, Annihilation of Fish, Crime and Punishment). Not to mention the release of her long-in-progress book, "Calamities" (in October... finally! ) Brunette leading ladies may come and go, but there is only one Margot. I highly recommend adding Margot Kidder's "Intimate Portrait" to your collection.

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Meteor (2009) Review

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(More customer reviews)It's unfortunate that Amazon doesn't allow for negative ratings, as this made-for-TV miniseries doesn't even deserve one star.
It's hard to know where to start with this one. First of all, the writing for this movie is atrocious. There are factual errors, logical errors and plot holes so bad that you'd swear they had to have been put there on purpose, because no one would mistakenly write something so wrong.
Then there's the direction. There are some very talented actors in this movie, and yet they act as if they're making a silent movie-era melodrama -- overacting to the extreme, making bizarre facial expressions, etc. Without revealing any spoilers, let's just say that one of the characters dies in the second half of the miniseries, and as he dies his body is wracked with convulsions that look like a stagehand is poking him with an electric cattle prod. It's actually funny. And what's with those unlabeled maps that seem to show the location of one of the scenarios? It's like the CGI department ran out of money and they left in half-finished interstitials.
I guess the most egregious fault with this miniseries, though, is the fact that it is completely BORING. So much of the narrative has nothing to do with anything else that occurs that it feels as if they took a two-hour TV movie and tried to stretch it to four hours by padding it with random unrelated storylines.
Oh, yeah, and the basic premise of this, a giant piece of space rock hurtling toward the Earth, has been done to death already.
So PLEASE don't waste your money on this piece of garbage. Buy DVDs of quality television. Heck, buy DVDs of mediocre television. Just don't reward the producers of this movie by giving them your money.

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Get ready for heart-pounding action, incredible special effects and edge-of-your-seat suspense! When renowned scientist Dr. Lehman (Christopher Lloyd, Back to the Future) makes the terrifying discovery that a meteor three times the size of Mount Everest is plummeting towards Earth, he begins a desperate quest to save humanity. Battling government corruption and racing against the clock, Lehman and his assistant (Marla Sokoloff, "The Practice") strive to uncover the truth and avoid disaster of unparalleled proportions. Featuring a powerhouse cast, including Stacy Keach ("Prison Break"), Billy Campbell ("Once and Again"), Jason Alexander ("Seinfeld") and Michael Rooker (JFK), Meteor is the ultimate adrenaline-charged adventure. Stills from Meteor (Click for larger image)

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