The Spy Next Door
Does anyone else miss the days of Rumble in the Bronx? Police Story? You know, when Jackie Chan could, or was, allowed to still do stunts? I thought so. Unfortunately, those days are long since passed, and now Jackie Chan movies are just lame hollow shells of something that can never be [...]
Shrek Forever After
Dreamworks seems bored with the ogre who laid the golden egg. “Shrek Forever After,” the fourth film in the lucrative franchise, barely tampers with the Shrek formula (one-liners, flatulence jokes, pop tunes) and not enough to breathe life into the exhausted series.
Shrek (voiced by Mike Myers) is feeling buried under the celebrity, [...]
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 [...]
Micmacs (2010) – Movie Review
Amazed by Amelie, yet underwhelmed by A Very Long Engagement, I really didn’t know quite what to expect with Micmacs, the third film I’ve seen from famed French director Jean Pierre Jeunet. Sadly, Micmacs falls a bit short of both other films. Micmacs follows the main character Bazil, who [...]
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 [...]