Watching House of Sand and Fog, easily one of the year’s best films, is like watching an exercise in reality. The film is so emotionally charged that the viewer cannot help but be sucked in. There is not a clear-cut bad guy, which in turn will leave you thinking about… Continue reading
You will spend a lot of time shaking your head during The Order, the newest film from writer/director Brian Helgeland (who co-wrote and won an Oscar for L.A. Confidential). The film introduces a labyrinth of ideas, but rarely capitalizes on any of them. The film is a throwback to religious… Continue reading
A common misconception about Bad Santa from the beginning is that the film is portraying Santa Claus as an alcoholic thief. The truth of the matter is that the movie portrays an alcoholic safe cracker disguising as Santa Claus to pull off his next job. The film is by no… Continue reading
It is in writing a review for this film that one realizes just how silly the whole premise is. Freddy Krueger just is not scary anymore. At least that’s the word on Elm Street. If people are not afraid of him, how is he supposed to enter their dreams and… Continue reading
I would be willing to bet right now that no other reviewer in the country is as “in the dark” about this movie than me. Not having HBO has put me at a disadvantage in way, in that Project Greenlight (the show that discovered screenwriter Erica Beeney and Directors Efrom… Continue reading
Before you even start to read this review, take a gander at the talent that is listed to the left. Good director, good actors. So good, in fact, that I cannot recall a film with so much talent that falls apart as fast as Dreamcatcher does. The story starts out… Continue reading
It is now official: The James Bond films have been spoofed for all they are worth. Please…NO MORE! Funny how I can make that plea and still give Johnny English a fairly positive review. While it lives up to the very definition of hit and miss, the parts that hit… Continue reading
The Terminator said he’d be back! I do not know how many people thought it would take twelve years, however. Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines is a shockingly successful sequel to two films that set the standard for modern science-fiction, each in their own way. T3 is minus mastermind… Continue reading
“A carload of six teens find themselves trapped in the woods of West Virginia, hunted down by ‘cannibalistic mountain men grossly disfigured through generations of in-breeding.’” – IMDB plot synopsis I won’t lie to you; this plot synopsis definitely caught my eye. And strangely enough, that one sentence essentially sums… Continue reading
Bruce Almighty is the kind of movie that Jim Carrey should stick to. After a few atrocious bombs (The Majestic, Man on the Moon), Carrey has returned to his roots, which are rubber-faced expressions and weird voices. In the film, Carrey plays Bruce Nolan, a newscaster who is hoping to… Continue reading