Ella Enchanted

All-singing, all-dancing fairy tale is all-but-unbearable.

"...McArdle, Joanna Lumley, Lucy Punch, Jennifer Higham, Minnie Driver, Eric Idle, Steve Coogan and Vivica A. Fox. Despite being..."

April 9, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Quest for Camelot

"...Byrne, Gary Oldman, Bronson Pinchot, Pierce Brosnan, Steve Perry, Eric Idle, Don Rickles, John Gielgud, Jane Seymour, Celine Dion..."

May 15, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Monty Python's Spamalot

With Eric Idle's screen-to-stage musical spoof, Summer Stock Austin makes the Knights of the Round Table so very enjoy-able

"...commentary fall safely within the comedic range of author Eric Idle (book and lyrics)...."

Aug. 4, 2017 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Splitting Heirs

"...Directed by: Robert Young. Starring: Eric Idle, Rick Moranis, Barbara Hershey and John Cleese. Splitting..."

May 7, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Wind in the Willows

"...Directed by: Terry Jones. Starring: Terry Jones, Steve Coogan, Eric Idle, Anthony Sher, Nicol Williamson, John Cleese, Stephen Fry,..."

March 6, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mom and Dad Save the World

"...Greg Beeman. Starring: Teri Garr, Jeffrey Jones, Wallace Shawn, Eric Idle and Jon Lovitz. Oh, how the mighty have..."

July 31, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Rutle to the Core

Neil Innes Exposes His Nasty Side

"...Seventies U.K. television show in which Innes co-starred with Eric Idle of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Innes had been..."

Nov. 15, 1996 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

The Road to Mars: A Post-Modem Story

"...by Eric Idle..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Books Review by Matt Williams

Scanlines

An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn

"...Alan Smithee (1997) with Ryan O'Neal, Coolio, Chuck D, Eric Idle, Richard Jeni, Sandra Bernhard, Stephen Tobolowsky, Sylvester Stallone,..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Screens Feature

The AggreGAYtor: September 20

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...• Intel, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and Verizon are among the major donors of the..."

Sept. 20, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

TV Eye

A new six-part IFC documentary cracks the code on that wonderful crackpot Monty Python troupe

"...slightly absurd opening for his televised version of This American Life on Showtime (with Glass sitting at a desk..."

Oct. 16, 2009 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Shrek the Third

The big, green cash machine has finally run dry, perhaps not of box-office power but most assuredly of the caustic wit that made the first two films so winning.

"...Diaz, Eddie Murphy, Antonio Banderas, Julie Andrews, Rupert Everett, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Justin Timberlake, John Krasinski, Ian McShane,..."

May 18, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

"...Starring: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin and Carol Cleveland. One of the..."

Jan. 7, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Transformers: The Movie

Hitchcock's classic has acquired a certain campiness over the years, but it still has the power to disturb.

"...D: Nelson Shin (1986); with Eric Idle, Judd Nelson, Leonard Nimoy, Robert Stack, Casey Kasem,..."

May 11, 2001 Screens Review by Eli Kooris

Boris and Natasha, The Movie /
Dudley Do-Right

"...(1999); with Brendan Fraser, Sarah Jessica Parker, Alfred Molina, Eric Idle, Robert Prosky...."

July 28, 2000 Screens Review by Ken Lieck

Point Austin: Climate Change Awareness Month

From the Islands and the IPCC comes the latest urgent warning

"...Panel on Climate Change coincides with Monty Python veteran Eric Idle's book tour for his Always Look on the..."

Oct. 12, 2018 News Column by Michael King

Dudley Do-Right

"...Wilson. Starring: Brendan Fraser, Sarah Jessica Parker, Alfred Molina, Eric Idle, Robert Prosky, Alex Rocco, Jack Kehler and Jed..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Gotta Get Up

Harry Nilsson, the Pussy Cat who roared

"...but not conscious," offers Scheinfeld. "I think it was Eric Idle who said he thought Harry didn't feel he..."

Dec. 3, 2010 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Summer Sneaks

Apocalypse Whenever: Movies in the Season of Armageddon

"...This comedy of the American frontier by Christopher Guest (This Is Spinal Tap, Waiting..."

May 22, 1998 Screens Feature

Quills

Different Stages doesn't light up the dark corners of this gothic comedy about the Marquis de Sade

"...I suspect that the Marquis de Sade and Eric Idle would have gotten along nicely if they'd ever..."

Jan. 11, 2013 Arts Review by Jillian Owens

FF2012: 'The Final Member'

The long and short of the world's only penis museum at Fantastic Fest

"...a collection of 280 penises of various species. As Eric Idle would so tunefully put it, the collection spans..."

Sept. 23, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

A Case for Case

Two chances to help out this week

"...featured Richard Thompson, T-Bone Burnett, Joe Henry, Monty Python’s Eric Idle, and lots more...."

Oct. 28, 2009 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Reissues

"...tapped five well-educated Brits (Cambridge, Oxford) and one gifted American animator for a new sketch program that was almost..."

June 15, 2007 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

DVDs: Part 3

Gift guide

"...and John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, and the late Graham Chapman's finest hour(s) remain..."

Dec. 17, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Life of Brian

"...Starring: Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle and Michael Palin. Is it Christ or is..."

Dec. 18, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

102 Dalmatians

"...Tim Mcinnerny, Alice Evans, Ioan Gruffudd, Jim Carter and Eric Idle. God bless Glenn Close. She really gives this..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

TV Eye

Will a brown-out really change the way Latinos are portrayed on television? Also, only a few quibbles about the surprisingly promising premiere of Angel, starring Buffy's David Boreanaz.

"...landslide of pre- mieres glided into living rooms across America last week, that is, unless you were participating in..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

The Best of the Rest The Summer of '95, Part 2

"...gives him the courage to explore more deeply the American homosexual psyche, and his signature work, Howl, takes shape..."

June 9, 1995 Books Feature

Show and Tell

Spring Previews 2000

"...coast hatch a plan to lure a batch of American woman into their clutches for matrimony in this bittersweet..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Casper

"...Directed by: Carlo Carlei. Starring: Matthew Modine, Nancy Travis, Eric Stoltz, Max Pomeranc, Ron Perlman and Comet. At its..."

June 2, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

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