Righteous Kill
Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, two names that are synonymous with the silver screen, both starred in the "Godfather II" film, but never had any scenes together. In 1995, both appeared in Heat...
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Burn After Reading
The Coen brothers have a long history of doing comedic films with dark streaks (The Big Lebowski, Fargo). They have a re...
Babylon A.D.
I like Vin Diesel--he's got screen presence. He's got charisma. I liked him in Pitch Black and I enjoyed t...
Death Race
It's the end of summer, families are taking their last vacations, kids are getting ready for school, and the studios start to release the films that didn't make it into their summer schedule, such as...
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...
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...
The X-Files: I Want to Believe Lacks the Series’ Original...
The X-Files: I Want to Believe briefly recaptures Mulder and Scully’s chemistry but lacks the spirit that made the original series compelling.
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...