As a Texas native, I went into this Hollywood biopic (or is it historical drama?) with some trepidation. With a gal from Amarillo on my left and a gal from Orange County on my right, I found the experience extremely gratifying. As my wise Californian companion noted, a film about the Alamo has […]
Lo, how the mighty have fallen. The Tuxedo aside, I am a Jackie Chan fan. Between his genial aw-shucks personality, superhuman feats of agility & creativity, and his comedic timing, what’s not to love? Paired with Owen Wilson, Chan gets to marry culture clash with witty comedy. Shanghai Noon (this film’s […]
Jackie Chan. These are the operative words. If you like Jackie Chan, you already have a differing level of standards for evaluating his films. Is he better as a solo act, as in First Strike? Or is it more fun to see him distilled with an American partner, as in Rush […]
The expectations I had going into this movie were so low, so pessimistic, so permeated with dread and pre-show nausea, that really, they had nowhere to go but up. I was expecting the pandering, look at me showiness of Men in Black, coupled with the vapid excitement of Independence Day, layered with a cheesy […]
