Category: Reviews
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Les Triplettes de Belleville
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Read more: Les Triplettes de BellevilleOriginality can be shocking when it actually happens.
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Northfork (2003)
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Read more: Northfork (2003)For the first five minutes or so, when I was lost in a sea of color and windswept plains…
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A Beautiful Mind (2001)
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Read more: A Beautiful Mind (2001)In other words, Hollywood put its kid gloves on and told a more sanitized version of John Nash’s story.
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No Dead Heroes
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Read more: No Dead HeroesCrazed KGB agent brainwashes Green Beret; hundreds perish.
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Night of the Living Dead
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Read more: Night of the Living DeadThere’s nothing particularly frightening about George Romero’s 1968 classic about zombies run amok, but I liked it just the same.
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Next of Kin
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Read more: Next of KinSo just to be clear, this guy was killed when hounds chased him into a bus full of snakes.
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Never Die Aloone (2004)
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Read more: Never Die Aloone (2004)Any film that ends with Nashville’s Henry Gibson shoving rapper DMX into a cremation oven can’t be all bad…
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Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
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Read more: Bob & Carol & Ted & AliceFew things in life are as frustrating as films that aren’t willing to go all the way.
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Bandits (2001)
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Read more: Bandits (2001)This movie got lot of positive reviews. That is totally baffling to me.
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S.W.A.T (2003)
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Read more: S.W.A.T (2003)Not so long ago, we predicted a resurgence in 80s-style Action. Since S.W.A.T. almost perfectly fits the mold, I’m reviewing it using the 80s Action template, even though it falls far short of the 80s Action ideal. I think that action films are kind of on the fence right now, along with the rest of…