Archive for November, 2007
Stuck On You
Sucks to be Stuck
**1/2 out of *****
It must suck rocks to belong to a club whose members could include Sylvester Stallone, George Lucas, Meatloaf and the dudes who wrote the Bible. I’m talking of course, about the club whose sole membership requirement is that you create something that has such a powerful, […]
Something’s Gotta Give
Giving It Your All
**** out of *****
Imagine if you will, your job. Some of us love it, some of us hate it, but most of us just deal with it. Now imagine that you could show up to work and create a daily list of things to do that you absolutely didn’t […]
Open Range
Over Yonder
** out of *****
Waterworld was the beginning of the end. A big budget, high-stakes movie so hated by critics that it - rather unfairly, I think - robbed Kevin Costner of any Hollywood credibility (even though it ended up making quite a tidy profit worldwide). After that, his list of movies […]
Intolerable Cruelty
Torture Can Be Fun
**1/2 out of *****
The creators of Intolerably Cruelty, Joel and Ethan Coen, are two of those rare people whose movies nearly take a backseat to their own reputations. Their fan club might not be as populous as the ones for Star Wars or The Rocky Horror Picture Show, but […]
The Matrix Revolutions
“Whoa” - Part III
*** out of *****
Last year, the hype over The Matrix: Reloaded reached nearly Star Wars like proportions which was unfortunate; it’s a near impossibility for a movie - any movie - to live up to expectations that high. The first sequel to the genre-bending original made a bit of a […]
Freddy vs Jason
The Gorer… The Gorer
** out of *****
The first real horror movie I ever saw was A Nightmare on Elm Street in 1984. My friend had turned 12 and all of us were in his basement, pretending not to be scared while at the same time wondering how much ridicule we’d get if one of […]
Bad Boys II
Run With a Gun for Fun
*** out of *****
I once read an Entertainment Weekly article entitled “Michael Bay is Satan.” Now sure, the director of Bad Boys, Armageddon, The Rock and now Bad Boys II has brought down the ire of many film purists who scream that he throws well-written characters out the […]
The Matrix Reloaded
“Whoa” - Part II
**1/2 out of *****
Warning – if you haven’t seen The Matrix yet, don’t even consider going to see Reloaded unless you’ve spent a few mind-bending hours in front of the TV getting used to the universe that The Matrix has created. This is one of those movies that builds […]
Dumb and Dumberer
Pride in Stupidity
* out of *****
Movie reviewer Lisa Schwarzbaum once said that a sequel ‘ought to be intelligible to someone who didn’t see the original, but must reward anyone who did.’ Given the extremely immature but hilarious quality of the original Dumb and Dumber, I don’t think the intelligibility quotient was something the […]
Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle
The Devil’s In The Details
** out of *****
Oh, Hollywood, you crafty little movie mill. Even your fluffy popcorn flicks are able to ignite fierce debates between the right and left side of the human brain. For instance, the right side of my brain has been screaming at me since the lights came […]
