Jolie Jackunas Movies

After a particularly grueling day in the studio, Dan (Josh Charles) spearheads an effort to get everyone to go to the bar. Casey (Peter Krause) initially declines the invite, but swiftly changes his mind after learning that Dana (Felicity Huffman) is coming along. Everyone but Jeremy (Joshua Malina) decides to go, prompting Dana and Natalie (Sabrina Lloyd) to try to talk the new guy into joining the festivities. After convincing everyone that he needs to write a letter to his hearing-impaired sister Louise, Jeremy does indeed stay behind and proceeds to recount to his younger sister his first three months on the Sports Night crew. Responding to Louise's previous letter inquiring about his co-workers, Jeremy goes into some of the details he has learned about his fellow staffers -- ranging from Isaac's (Robert Guillaume) extensive experience as a newsman to Dana's upbringing to his new and awkward relationship with Natalie. As he begins to wrap up the letter, Jeremy hears loud music coming from the studio and learns that the gang has returned after getting kicked out of the bar for being unruly -- which leads to an unexpected but very welcome encounter between Natalie and Jeremy. ~ Ryan Shriver, Rovi

The feature debut of ultra-low-budget horror auteur J.R. Bookwalter, this fast-paced zombie mini-epic is very likely the most expensive movie ever shot on Super-8 film. Playing with the long-established mythos of George A. Romero's Living Dead trilogy, The Dead Next Door was produced with the help of many of the Evil Dead crew: financial backer Sam Raimi is credited as "Master Cylinder" and one of the characters is named after him; Evil Dead co-writer Scott Spiegel plays a role; and some character voices are dubbed by Bruce Campbell. The story centers on the members of the "Zombie Squad" -- an assault team trained in the hunting and extermination of the living dead -- and their mission to track down the scientists who developed a zombie-making virus and find the rumored antidote. Of the many lethal obstacles in their path, the deadliest comes in the form of a religious cult whose leader sees the zombie epidemic as a precursor of Armageddon -- and is hell-bent on expediting it. Very stylish for what is essentially an epic-scale home movie (and gushing with plentiful home-style gore effects), this remains Bookwalter's best effort and contains numerous witty homages to the Romero films which inspired it. ~ Cavett Binion, Rovi