ELEKTRA’s mission as a film was to be better than DAREDEVIL, the benighted Ben Affleck vehicle in which the character of the knife-wielding super-heroine previously appeared. It succeeds, but then again, it’s not like it had a high bar to clear. Fans of Jennifer Garner will not be disappointed with ELEKTRA, which brings back that… Read More »
ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13
With ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 we learn two important lessons. One, that remakes, in this case of John Carpenter’s 1976 original of the same name, fail, and badly, much more often than they succeed. Two, that Laurence Fishburne has so much raw talent, smooth charisma, and irresistible personal magnetism that he can make even trash like this… Read More »
HIDE AND SEEK
When making a thriller, especially ones with supernatural and psychological overtones, it is vitally important to at the very least not make the audience laugh unintentionally. HIDE AND SEEK fails to make it over even that low bar. Instead, it quickly devolves into a camp parody of everything it purports to be about, including Robert… Read More »
THE WILD PARROTS OF TELEGRAPH HILL
After spending 83 minutes with Mark Bittner and the flock of WILD PARROTS OF TELEGRAPH HILL that have allowed him into their lives, it?s easy to come away with the sense that there was an element of fate in their meeting up. An 魩gr頦rom Washington state with plans to be a musician, he got sidetracked… Read More »
INSIDE DEEP THROAT
Filmmakers Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato have taken a hot button topic and turned it into a piquant and incisive sociological treatise on the societal attitudes towards sex and sexuality and how those attitudes, oddly, havent changed much even with the sexual revolution. That it’s also a look at the eternal struggle between art and… Read More »
CONSTANTINE
I can see where CONSTANTINE, based on the graphic novel Hellblazer, might have seemed like a good idea for a movie. Good versus evil on a cosmic scale, special effects whipping across the screen with a wild abandon not unlike the whirlwind to be found in the second circle of Hell, and a cynical anti-hero… Read More »
HITCH
HITCH is a pleasant enough meringue of a romantic comedy. Light, sweet, and essentially insubstantial. What it has going for it is its attitude, one that champions true love over a roll in the hay, some nice physical comedy by Kevin James, and Will Smith, a leading man in the old school mold. Hes Alex… Read More »
SON OF THE MASK
SON OF THE MASK is a slam-bang festival of live-action cartoon hi-jinks and screwball violence, yet it aims right for the heart and against all reason, succeeds. Jaime Kennedy turns in a nicely sensitive and sweet performance as Tim Avery, an animation star who hasnt been discovered yet. In the meantime, he toils at an… Read More »
DIARY OF A MAD BLACK WOMAN
With a title like DIARY OF A MAD BLACK WOMAN, one can be forgiven for expecting something edgy, raw, and raucous. Alas, this dismal little potboiler delivers only tedium. Kimberly Elise, who deserves better material, stars as Helen, a woman who in the course of the film will confuse learning how to lose her temper… Read More »
RAY — DVD
Taylor Hackford is not originally from the south, but he has the soul of a southerner when it comes to storytelling. In RAY, he uses it to blend past and present in ways that don’t just show how the former affects the latter, but how in the emotional landscape of the title character, the legendary… Read More »
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