The problem with feature films based on television series that left the airwaves long ago is that with a different cast and different writers and, heaven help us all, a “hip” new take on it all, what made the original popular, even classic, can easily get lost in the shuffle to make a quick buck.… Read More »
VENOM
Screaming, stalking, and exsanguinating is just about all there is to VENOM, a putrid bit of bad filmmaking whose only virtue, and that is an extremely relative term here, is that it doesn’t try to pretend to be anything but. Alas, in the process it manages to make mere schlock look good. We, like the… Read More »
CORPSE BRIDE
Tim Burton’s latest animated film, CORPSE BRIDE,is a whimsical bit of the macabre, gussied up with the rapture of first love in both its full flowering and something more sinister. It’s Petit Guignol as light and fluffy as a corner full of cobwebs and, once you get used to the talking maggots, the rotting flesh… Read More »
INTO THE BLUE
Hard bodies, blue water, and a passel of music video moments strung together into the running time of a motion picture is what INTO THE BLUE is all about. It may silly, but at least it’s not offensive. The bodies in the persons of Jessica Alba and Paul Walker are taut and toned to perfection.… Read More »
TWO FOR THE MONEY
The human mind is an amazing thing. Over the course of evolution, it has developed a host of fascinating mechanisms geared towards its survival in any number of harsh environments, be it the plains of Africa a million years ago, or the terrors of bad cinema at today’s local multiplex. It’s the latter that stirred… Read More »
GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK
In a lesser film about Edward R. Murrow and the way he used television to bring down Joseph McCarthy, there would have been the obligatory unburdening scene with his wife. He would articulate the risks involved in what he was undertaking personally, professionally, and financially, have an emotional breakdown of some sort, and Mrs. Murrow… Read More »
SCORPION KING, THE
To their credit, the people behind THE SCORPION KING knew exactly what they were dealing with producing a movie starring The Rock. No, its not one of the Pillars of Hercules, but rather a wrestling superstar who, now that I think of it, does rather have those monumental proportions. They tailored the script to take advantage… Read More »
WINDHORSE
Someone once said that one murder is a tragedy, a million murders is a statistic. Thats the reason Academy Award-winning documentarian Paul Wagners first feature film, WINDHORSE, about the plight of the Tibetan people under Chinese occupation is so moving. He looks at the effect of that occupation on one family, and, by extension, the entire culture.… Read More »
ELIZABETHTOWN
If you are lucky enough to somehow manage to see only the first ten minutes or so of Cameron Crowe’s ELIZABETHTOWN, you will come away thinking that this has the makings of something interesting, dark, and just a little iconoclastic. Alas, it is followed by almost two hours of meandering randomness that quickly dispenses with… Read More »
THE FOG
You have to admire the way director Rupert Wainwright never lets a little thing like the specifics of plot interfere with the plodding pace he has set for THE FOG. It is as though he is following the exacting beat of a metronome and be it a scene of a babysitter watching a game show… Read More »
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