Bringing Down the House
Steve Martin and Queen Latifah do their best to bring down the house in this social satire that’s funny but not piercing.
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Cinequest 2003: Vampires Anonymous
What do you do when you can’t resist feeding off your friends? Join Vampires Anonymous, of course, and hope for the best…
Dark Blue Falls Flat
Grappling with police corruption while trying to simplify it, Dark Blue ends up being nothing… but Kurt Russell is great.
Old School Back to School
If you like this kind of comedy, you’ll enjoy Old School… or Back to School… or P.C.U. or maybe Animal House…
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.
Lost in La Mancha
Terry Gilliam keeps tilting at windmills as his impossible dream of making a movie without a hitch fails to come true again…
The Recruit Turns Routine
A lot of big Al scenery chewing, with Colin Farrell holding his own, but still The Recruit turns routine…
Final Destination 2
Final Destination 2 proves that it’s a simple formula, but it works. And works. And works. For J. Dobbs, it’s hilarious.
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…
National Security wastes Zahn
Martin Lawrence gets kicked out of Police Academy; he couldn’t even get back into a Police Academy remake…
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…
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.
Adaptation Confuses and Pleases
Writing a review about a hall of mirrors movie in a hall of mirrors adaptation just leads to more mirrors… or does it?
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.
Star Trek Nemesis
Star Trek Nemesis could have used a few whales that needed rescuing. At this point, we’d even take dancing in the sand dunes…
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. […]
