Joey Ramone Movies

Filmmaker Michael Gramaglia's years-in-the-making biography of the legendary punk band the Ramones entitled End of the Century traces nearly all the various and sundry peaks and valleys which the seminal rockers experienced over the course of its 20-plus year career before disbanding in 1995. Beginning with the band's first concert performances in the mid-'70s, Gramaglia explores the eccentric and highly volatile band members -- in all the various line-ups that were presented over the years -- as the Ramones slowly gained fame for their high energy and high-tempo style of music that would later influence generations of punk rockers around the world. Mixing archival interviews with new interviews of the various surviving bandmembers, as well as interviews with a number of the Ramones' contemporaries, End of the Century encapsulates the East Coast underground music atmosphere of the 1970s and '80s that the band inadvertently shocked into existence. ~ Ryan Shriver, Rovi

While entertaining some out-of-town investors, Drew (Drew Carey) joins his buddies Oswald (Diedrich Bader) and Lewis (Ryan Stiles) for an improptu songfest at the airport Ramada Inn. When the hotel's manager offers to book the boys on a permanent basis, Drew is reluctant--until he discovers that his one-shot performance has earned him the undying devotion of a sexy groupie named Darcy (Pauly Perrette). Now Drew and his friends must find an appropriate guitarist for their combo, resulting in a Commitments-style series of auditions featuring a staggering array of celebrity guests. Joe Walsh, Jimmy Fox and Dale Peters of The James Gang make the first of a handful of appearances in this episode, which is rounded out by a secondary story arc wherein Kate (Christa Miller) begs Drew to fire her so she can shop around for a better job. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi