Prince of Persia
As sword-and-sandal fantasy movies based on videogames and starring a buffed-up Jake Gyllenhaal go, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time goes pretty well. Gyllenhaal plays the grown-up Prince Dastan, adopted as a resourceful street kid by a sixth-century Persian king. Stained a rich George Hamilton teak in adulthood and bravely committed to [...]
Batman Movie Retrospective
Batman (1966) – Adam West and Burt Ward star in this awesome comic book style, campy ‘60s movie. This film is much like the Batman TV series that was airing at the time and feels like a very long syndicated episode. This movie features all of the best Batman villains: Joker, Riddler, Catwomen [...]
Movie Review: Just Wright Equals Just Perfect
Just Wright was the the perfect romance comedy featuring Queen Latifah and rapper Common. This is Common’s first leading role in a film. Common plays a professional basketball player for the New Jersey Nets named Scott McKnight. Queen Latifah plays a physical therapist named Leslie Wright, who goes on [...]
A Nightmare on Elm Street
As someone who owns all eight Freddy Krueger movies, including the good, the bad and the ugly, I was looking forward to the rebooted version of A Nightmare on Elm Street with hesitant anticipation, well aware that while glossy and full of beautiful actors, it would have to get things just [...]
G.I. Joe: Two hours wasted
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
There are all kinds of wild and noisy machines in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, the war toy turned cartoon turned motion picture that is now rotting minds in multiplexes everywhere.
The one new gizmo we could sorely use, however, is sadly [...]