Dark Blue Falls Flat
Grappling with police corruption while trying to simplify it, Dark Blue ends up being nothing… but Kurt Russell is great.
Articles by Derek McCaw
An Overstuffed Daredevil
Writer/director Mark Steven Johnson has his fanboy heart in the right place, but his fandom sometimes blocks coherent storytelling.
Oh Those Shanghai Knights
Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson return as an unlikely — and inaccurate — action team that’s more Hope and Crosby than Schwarzenegger.
The Recruit Turns Routine
A lot of big Al scenery chewing, with Colin Farrell holding his own, but still The Recruit turns routine…
Darkness Falls Fails
Sure, Darkness Falls fails in what it claims to be, but as movies go, they sure made a heck of an action figure…
A Guy Thing
Chalk it up to a guy thing as Jason Lee struggles to choose between Selma Blair and Julia Stiles. Yeah, we’ve been there…
Different Justice in Narc
Both cops want justice. They just have different ideas of what that means. One thing’s for sure — their world is colorless.
Condensed But Effective Nicholas Nickleby
A former SNL writer tackles one of Charles Dickens’ longest works to make a breezy attack on modern capitalism…
At Long Last Snake
In perhaps the single-most embarassing (so far) lag time in Fanboy Planet deadline history, we ran the first two parts of this interview with Hurricane […]
Catch Me If You Can
Catch Me If You Can is almost as charming as Leonardo DiCaprio, but there’s not as much under its shine as it thinks.
The Two Towers
Peter Jackson makes sure The Two Towers stand tall; it’s just frustrating being the middle child of an epic film trilogy.
Tom DeSanto: In The Eye Of An X-Storm
Despite how cool all the official X-Men 2 propaganda has been, rumors have sprung up that all is not well in the world of Mutantkind. […]
Tom DeSanto: In The Eye Of An X-Storm
Despite how cool all the official X-Men 2 propaganda has been, rumors have sprung up that all is not well in the world of Mutantkind. […]
Die Another Day
Easily the best of the Pierce Brosnan Bonds, Die Another Day injects new life by looking back to everything that came before.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
The second year begins looking for the Chamber of Secrets… just make sure you look for the bathroom first.
Parker Smart: Babes, Guns, and Nanenes
I admit it. After Comic-Con, we got swamped by the pressures of real life. Five days of feeling like we belonged, and we’re still paying […]
Justice League: The Savage Time
The Savage Time means the mysterious Vandal Savage has won World War 2. Can the Justice League tip the balance back?
I Spy a Decent Remake
If you’re going to update a classic 1960s TV series, you have to update it with the right people — and I Spy does.
Dead in the Water
Ghost Ship may be dead in the water, but we’d never stoop so low to make that pun. Wait a minute, of course we would.
The Ring Will Haunt You
The Ring will haunt you longer than 7 days. Just try not to pop any strange tapes into your VCR — if you still have a VCR.
