Tropic Thunder
Apocalypse Now was so hard to make they made a movie about making it. They couldn't even figure out how to end it. Brando was so heavy he was problematic (and hard to understand). When it tur...
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The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
What's the opposite of 'Synergy' where things are more than the sum of their parts? The answer is "antagonism" where additive elements actually detract from the whole. This is the force at w...
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
It has been seven years since the O'Connell's were on the silver screen, and they are back this summer in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. However, unlike past mummy films, this is one tha...
X-Files: I Want to Believe
It has been six years since X-files has been off the air, but this summer, the series creator, Chris Carter, along with David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, bring back the critically acclaimed series...
The Dark Knight
What the #!@#@$, Chris Nolan. You introduce a main villain from the Batman mythos 3/4ths of the way through your movie, give him 3 or 4 "choices" to make (something tells me he's made up his mind already) then kill him off? Really?
Wall-E
I have been worried about his film for the last year or so, ever since I watched the teaser trailer where Andrew Stanton recaps the development of the ideas that the creative heads at Pixar tossed aro...
Wanted
Once in a while, there are movies that break the mold of your typical action genre and define the next few years of action films. In the 1980's, it was Die Hard; in the 1990's, it was the Matrix; in t...
The Happening
It's no surprise that M. Night makes challenging movies--exactly who they challenge, though, is a matter of some opinion. The consensus seems to be that they challenge audiences on a mass scale to thi...
The Incredible Hulk
Ever since The Crow was released in 1994 and refined the superhero genre, it seems Hollywood cannot get enough of...
Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Much delayed, Prince Caspian has been released almost two and half years after The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The original cast of the Pevensie children has retu...