One mistake one should never make is seeing a movie like this right after seeing a movie like Munich. It will scramble your communication skills completely. Taking advantage of the Ricky Gervaise-inspired craze of comedy through self-immolation (metaphorical), Albert Brooks directs his self-penned trip to a land of self-immolation (literal) to see what […]

OK. There are movies about vampires, and there are movies about werewolves, and occasionally, both (even with Stooges) but what strikes me here is that the Underworld movies want desperately to be about both, but somehow end up being about familial squabbles and centuries-old politics. If you’re reading this review with any intent […]

It’s not really a comedy, and it’s not really a caper movie, it’s not even a midlife crisis movie, and sadly, it is the first Focus Feature I have seen that disappointed me.  It’s an odd little film, with a meandering story arc that doesn’t quite seem to resolve itself. Director Harold Ramis has given […]

The first Transporter movie was a fantastic combination of skillful, original driving/chase sequences (something that normally bores me) and heroically over-the-top hand to hand combat on the part of our mysterious driver. When you move from cool unique phenomenon into attempted franchise(and take 3 years to release a sequel, losing all possible momentum), you […]

It seemed like a perfect plan. What could be more fun than the extremely successful Meet The Parents (which I myself saw three times in the theatre and loved) than more of the same? The problem was, it was only more of the same, sprinkled with only a smidgeon of the new. […]

As fans of Helen Fielding’s books generally agree, the second Bridget Jones book (on which this film is based) is the inferior work of the two about our hapless heroine. That said, one would hope, with the magical chemistry of the cast and the success of the filmmakers with the previous adaptation, that this […]

Quote: Out of Seven, I give it a 4.
There’s a lot wrong with Saw. I can’t deny it. I have to say, however, that it achieved its stated goal, which was to creep the crap out of me and make me nervous to sleep alone in my apartment. Thankfully, the actual storyline […]

The unfair thing about this rating, well, the two unfair things are these: 1. I know this will not be shown on HBO. So while the rating is granted based on the dollar value I have assigned it, it is technically an impossibility. 2. I know it’s freaking hard and freaking expensive […]

This was a difficult review to write. The poster, Yahoo Movies, all imply that the star of the movie is Chris Cooper. That is both fact and exaggeration. Cooper is the character around whom all the events of the film orbit, but he is on screen a disappointingly small amount of time. […]

It’s movies like this that make us Generation X-ers continue to feel superior about the teen films made when we were teens. I am sure the Boomers and the Greatests and the Silents and whoever else can make the same claim. However, it does not change the fact that adding a simple level […]