‘Lemony Snicket’s A Series Of Unfortunate Events’
If you, gentle readers, want to read a review about an uplifting holiday movie sure to please audiences everywhere, this is not that review. You […]
Reviews
Review: Shaun Of The Dead
Many is the day we shuffle around, barely aware of our surroundings. Often we run on autopilot, with much of our activity divorced from its […]
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow has everything a fanboy should need… yet it left me just a little cold.
Review: Catwoman
You are a cat! A cat! Give me a meow! Oh, yes, bay-bee, zat is zee whay! Give me a little more, how you say, […]
El Cid On DVD
My fascination with El Cid goes back to high school, where the school library had a beat-up paperback novelization of Samuel Bronston’s epic movie – […]
Review: The Haunted Mansion
Eddie Murphy had a bit in his stand-up where he pointed out that you’d never find a black family in a haunted house movie. It […]
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…
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 […]
Don’t Hunt The Hunted
A mish-mash of so many better films — and some not so better — The Hunted should probably stay lost in the wilderness…
Cinequest 2003: The Legend of Dolemite
His influence is still felt today, so it’s high time you basked in the legend that is the Legend of Dolemite…
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.
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…
