Bruce McCulloch

One of Frank Zappa’s kids – Dweezil – writes some good songs. It was silly of me to think one of his kids – Ahmet – could write a screenplay. It was co-written with director Peter Hedges. He may have flopped with Dan in Real...

Dysfunctional paramedics, an amnesia-stricken woman and a smug family are among the folks who will potentially try to turn around ABC's sitcom fortunes next season. The network has ordered five comedy pilots, including one from the producers of "24"...

Friday October 8, 1999      The funniest moment on the recent "Saturday Night Live" anniversary show belonged to comedian Chris Rock. Wow, he said, 25 years. Four of 'em funny. He then made the nervy if not particularly novel observation that "SNL"...

Wednesday August 4, 1999      Blame it on Bobby Sherman. What are two 15-year-old girls to do? They've just got to make that midnight deadline for posting an entry into the "Win a Date With Bobby Sherman Contest"--he's their singing idol--so what to do...

If the film "Dog Park" were the only guide to Toronto, one might easily conclude that only 10 people live there and that most of them tend toward obtuse.      Written and directed by one-time Kid in the Hall Bruce McCulloch, "Dog Park" has the outward...

Between the end of summer and the edge of winter and the holiday season, the movies shrink. The budgets are lower; the weekend totals dip. As young acolytes await the second coming of Harry Potter on Nov. 15 and older fans count the days until Pierce...

"Stealing Harvard" is an act of grand theft--the way it wastes your time is a crime. It's so bad that you have to wonder whether Tom Green was looking for a project to match last year's "Freddy Got Fingered," which he directed and which ended up on many...

Friday April 12, 1996      Like Monty Python's Flying Circus, the Kids in the Hall have achieved their widest popularity posthumously. Having first hit the airwaves in 1989 over Canada's CBC, the troupe moved on to HBO, then to the more accessible Comedy...