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2005 Stories by Robert Wilonsky

• The Reel Truth

  published December 28, 2005

  If you go to Rotten Tomatoes, the Web site that compiles more than 100 film critics' reviews each week, you will find at the top of the "Certified... More >>

• Cult Hit for Nobody

  published December 28, 2005

  Nowhere Man (Image Entertainment) There's good reason why you've never heard of this UPN show from the mid-'90s, which lasted... More >>

• The Impossible Bomb

  published December 21, 2005

  Serenity (Universal) Joss Whedon's film version of his TV series Firefly came and went like a lightning bug in October;... More >>

• Tragedy Re-Revisited

  published December 21, 2005

  Those who will sit around wondering whether Munich is the work of an anti-Israeli or just a self-hating Jew -- which is to... More >>

• The Flunk-Out

  published December 21, 2005

  Buck Henry walks into a studio boss' office and pitches him a movie. Says it's gonna be a sequel to a movie he wrote called The Graduate,... More >>

• Love the Sin

  published December 14, 2005

  Sin City: Recut, Extended, Unrated (Buena Vista) Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller's near frame-for-frame adaptation of... More >>

• Monkey Business

  published December 14, 2005

  For whatever reason, the modernized, comic redo of King Kong released exactly 29 years ago has become less the "pop classic" that Pauline... More >>

• Oh, Joy

  published December 14, 2005

  One cannot, in good conscience, describe the countless strands of plot and strains of characters skittering through The Family Stone... More >>

• Sweat Along With Russell

  published December 7, 2005

  Cinderella Man (Universal) Back in the Great Depression, boxing matches only cost a nickel, and the ring was uphill both ways.... More >>

• Blood for Oil

  published December 7, 2005

  Warner Bros. put $50 million into Syriana and allowed writer/director Stephen Gaghan as much time and travel as necessary to... More >>

• Homewreckers on DVD

  published November 30, 2005

  Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Fox) The pairing of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, both in real life and on celluloid, is so obvious as... More >>

• Your Government at Work

  published November 23, 2005

  Punishment Park (New Yorker Video) This 1971 movie from director Peter Watkins could have been made yesterday,... More >>

• Sweat Along With Russell

  published November 23, 2005

  Cinderella Man (Universal) Back in the Great Depression, boxing matches only cost a nickel, and the ring was uphill both ways.... More >>

• Common Cold

  published November 23, 2005

  A few weeks ago, Harold Ramis was sitting in a hotel conference room discussing the subtext of The Ice Harvest, his new film based on the... More >>

• Ragged Doll

  published November 23, 2005

  There are two audiences for the movie New York Doll: Those who know the lyrics to such songs as "Vietnamese Baby" and "Pills" (and probably... More >>

• A Very Long Run

  published November 16, 2005

  Born to Run: 30th Anniversary 3-Disc Set (Columbia Home Video) The centerpiece of this three-disc boxed set isn't the... More >>

• Jesus Saves

  published November 16, 2005

  Hands down (and hands down her pants, from the sound of it), the funniest bit from the summer's raunch smorgasbord The Aristocrats was... More >>

• Hello, He's Not Johnny Cash

  published November 16, 2005

  It seems like so much nitpicking, but why is the Johnny Cash biopic called Walk the Line when a far better name would have been Ring of... More >>

• Blessed Are the Buttmunches

  published November 9, 2005

  Beavis and Butt-head: The Mike Judge Collection, Volume One (Paramount) This three-disc, 40-episode volume chronicling... More >>

• Love at First Fight

  published November 9, 2005

  Keira Knightley, who is all of 20 but has the grace and gravitas of someone a good decade older, probably considers herself the luckiest lass in... More >>

• The Force Runs Its Course

  published November 2, 2005

  Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (Lucasfilm Ltd.) The final installment of the Star Wars saga... More >>

• Killing Time

  published November 2, 2005

  If Jarhead, director Sam Mendes and writer William Broyles Jr.'s adaptation of Bay Area writer Anthony Swofford's 2003 Gulf War memoir,... More >>

• Cameron Crowing

  published October 26, 2005

  Titanic: Special Collector's Edition (Paramount Home Video) Loved and loathed in equal measure, Titanic... More >>

• Past Prime

  published October 26, 2005

  With a name like Prime, a movie had better be about something more than an older woman digging on a younger man, much to the disapproval of... More >>

• Scattered Dour

  published October 26, 2005

  The Weather Man, starring Nicolas Cage as a disappointment of a son and a failure of a father, was screened for critics in the spring,... More >>