Articles Written by Joseph Savitski
Highlander 2: Special Edition (1991) Movie Review
Despite being a mediocre sequel released over 13 years ago, “Highlander II” keeps rearing its head, this time with a new version that really isn’t much of an improvement on the original. After a theatrical version, a European cut, and a director’s cut, it’s dawned on Lions Gate Films to spiff up the movie and [...]
August 4th, 2004 | Joseph Savitski | 0 Comments | Read MoreGodzilla vs Biollante (1989) Movie Review
It makes sense that Godzilla’s foe in “Godzilla vs. Biollante” would be the product of genetic engineering, since that science was beginning to dawn when the film was made. It doesn’t, at first, make sense why the filmmakers would decide to have Godzilla fight a mutated rosebush; but they probably were running out of species [...]
August 2nd, 2004 | Joseph Savitski | 1 Comment | Read MoreThe Village (2004) Movie Review
If you’re having trouble sleeping, taking in a showing of “The Village” will definitely fix that. While the movie is beautifully photographed and well acted, the script is boring and a massive letdown. Essentially, the film is like a chocolate Easter Bunny; it looks great on the outside, but is hollow on the inside.
“The [...]
Catwoman (2004) Movie Review
The latest comic book adaptation come to life is a ridiculous and joyless effort, more likely to inspire incredulous laughter than audience enjoyment. Despite the presence of a good cast, “Catwoman” is a mess of action sequences, corporate conspiracies, and Egyptian mythology. And it’s about as enjoyable as being repeatedly pounded in the face with [...]
July 31st, 2004 | Joseph Savitski | 0 Comments | Read MoreGodzilla vs Megaguirus (2000) Movie Review
When “Godzilla 2000 Millennium” failed to set the box office on fire, Toho Ltd. fired the creative team and slashed the budget for the following film. The result should have been a disaster, a cut-rate film by a rookie director. Fortunately “Godzilla vs. Megaguirus” managed to transcend its handicap to become one of the strongest [...]
July 11th, 2004 | Joseph Savitski | 0 Comments | Read MoreDoctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death (1999) Movie Review
The Doctor Who series has been many things over the past few decades, but funny has never been one of them. And while director John Henderson and writer Steven Moffat may have only a tentative grasp on the Time Lord, they’ve nevertheless made a wickedly amusing parody sure to leave fans in stitches.
In “Doctor [...]
Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time (1993) Movie Review
After a few years of no new Doctor Who, fans of the show would have been tickled to watch Tom Baker read from the Gallifrey dictionary for 2 hours. Instead, they got a 15-minute crossover with the “Eastenders” as part of the Children in Need charity telethon. While quite flawed and illogical, the short is [...]
July 8th, 2004 | Joseph Savitski | 0 Comments | Read MoreSuicide Club (2002) Movie Review
One of the most recent entries in the renaissance of Japanese horror cinema is an impressive but gory meditation on the power of pop culture on the public psyche. A pitch-black satire as well as a shocking horror film, it raises several excellent points concerning the media’s manipulation of the general population’s value system. If [...]
July 3rd, 2004 | Joseph Savitski | 0 Comments | Read MoreDoctor Who: The Movie (1996) Movie Review
Ever since “Doctor Who” had its final sign-off in 1989, fans have been clamoring for its resurrection. They got their wish in May of 1996, when a joint BBC/Universal Films production was released on the FOX Television network. While obviously an Americanized version of the classic British series, the film still retained the spirit of [...]
June 14th, 2004 | Joseph Savitski | 0 Comments | Read MoreNatural Born Killers: The Director’s Cut (1994) Movie Review
In Oliver Stone’s “Natural Born Killers”, beauty is true ugliness and brutality is normal and accepted behavior. This is the world of Mickey and Mallory, two itinerate mass murderers with horrific pasts turned into superstars by the tabloid press. A funny satire on American culture that’s difficult to laugh at, “Killers” is a scathing indictment [...]
June 9th, 2004 | Joseph Savitski | 0 Comments | Read More
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