Justice League: A Better World
The Justice League says enough is enough and become fascist overlords. Meaning this episode explains why that’s not heroic…
Reviews
Review: The Matrix Revolutions
If this film had been some sort of live-action manga adaptation, it would have been under a title like Cyber Fighter Black Super Buddha Neo […]
DVD Review: George Of The Jungle 2
Christopher Showerman. Despite a gag about replacing Brendan Fraser in the movie itself, the publicity materials from Disney act as if Mr. Showerman doesn’t really […]
Justice League: Tabula Rasa
The “tabula rasa” is the frightening adaptive android Amazo — he can mimic the Justice League’s powers, but not their wisdom…
Bubba Ho-Tep
A septugenarian Elvis (Bruce Campbell) lies in his bed in an East Texas rest home, his best days obviously behind him. The world thinks he’s […]
Review: ‘American Splendor’
It’s Halloween in Cleveland. Five children stand expectantly at a door, dressed as their respective heroes. Superman, Batman, Robin, and the Golden Age Green Lantern […]
‘Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl’
Sometimes you catch a film critic calling a summer movie “…a real ride!” Which sort of leaves us in an awkward position when Disney releases […]
Review: The Matrix Reloaded
When The Matrix hit theaters four years ago, nobody knew what hit them, least of all Warner Brothers. A fresh (to some) melding of science […]
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?
