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Lord of the Rings 3: The Return of the King (2003) Movie Review
While Peter Jackson’s “The Return of the King” is certainly a marvel of moviemaking, it lacks the newness of “The Fellowship of the Rings” and the proper narrative structure (and flow) of “The Two
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Godzilla X MechaGodzilla aka Godzilla Against MechaGodzilla (2002) Movie Review
Godzilla may have turned 49, but he shows no sign of slowing down. In the initial part of a planned trilogy, he battles an enemy very familiar to fans of the kaiju genre. An
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Xanda (2003) Movie Review
“South Park” once did an episode where they made fun of Sports Movie cliché, including the biggest clich’ of the genre, the inevitable Big Game (or Big Fight or Big Race, etc.). The second
Read More »Cabin Fever (2003) Movie Review
As was the case with Rob Schmidt’s “Wrong Turn”, you must have an easy familiarity with Teen Slasher movies in order to fully appreciate what Eli Roth’s “Cabin Fever” does right, because the movie
Read More »Infernal Affairs 3 (2004) Movie Review
2002′s “Infernal Affairs” was, in many ways, a seminal work in Hong Kong cinema. Not only did the film come out during a period when the industry was mired in bubbly nonsensical comedies starring
Read More »Ghost Rock (2003) Movie Review
“Ghost Rock’s” biggest failing is that it never allows the audience to believe, for even a single second, that it’s an actual western. The music, the martial arts, the poor sound foley, and even
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Three Seasons (1999) Movie Review
It may shock most Americans to realize that, despite their insistence on holding onto the memories of the Vietnam War, that the Vietnamese people has since left that part of their past behind. Or
Read More »Star Runner (2003) Movie Review
The biggest problem I can foresee with Daniel Lee’s “Star Runner” is keeping the men in the audience from walking out before the film kicks in gear at about the 40-minute mark. Of course
Read More »Unbreakable (2000) Movie Review
M. Night’s Unbreakable is a disaster. It is not an unmitigated disaster in the vein of, say, Kevin Costner’s The Postman. Rather, the movie is a disaster in the sense that it could have
Read More »The Medallion (2003) Movie Review
Running at a scant 85 minutes, Jackie Chan’s latest effort “The Medallion” probably won’t please a lot of people. Generally speaking, it’s a slightly average movie, but considering the string of average films Chan
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Star Trek 8: First Contact (1996) Movie Review
“Star Trek” has never been like any of the other science fiction franchises out there. It’s always had a distinctive look, feel, and vibe to its aesthetics and storylines that I find attractive. Also,
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Deadline (2002) Movie Review
I guess it was only a matter of time before the rest of Europe gave in and offered up their own version of a zombie movie. The Italians nearly killed off the genre in
Read More »Coronado (2003) Movie Review
The only remarkable thing about “Coronado”, a film starring Americans but made by Germans, is that it manages some impressive special effects for what must have been a modest budget. While calling “Coronado” a
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Battlestar Galactica (2003) Mini-Series TV Review
Part One: I’ve seen some episodes of the old “Battlestar Galactica” TV show, which appeared about 25 years ago and went off the air after only a yearlong run, but I was never really
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The Nest (2002) Movie Review
2002′s “The Nest” probably surprised a lot of people, myself included, who didn’t think the general French movie industry was capable of producing anything other than films about how great it is to have
Read More »In Hell (2003) Movie Review
My expectations coming into Jean-Claude Van Damme’s latest straight-to-video opus, “In Hell” (aka “The Savage”), was not very high. They were, in fact, so low that anything other than crap would have satisfied me.
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Alive (2002) Movie Review
It’s no surprise at all that Ryuhei Kitamura chose “Alive” as his first film post-”Versus”. Whereas that low-budget zombie/yakuza film was a meshing of hyper kinetic chaos and stylized action, “Alive” is a slightly
Read More »Addiction (2003) Movie Review
In “Addiction”, Frank Franconeri plays Bobby, a mild-mannered fellow with an idyllic life in the suburbs, a loving wife who isn’t shy about giving oral sex, and a nice white-collar job in a nice
Read More »Unborn but Forgotten (2002) Movie Review
Oh “Ringu”, what hath thou wrought? Aside from the manic sounds of greedy movie producers all over Asia looking to cash in, that is. I suppose it wouldn’t be entirely fair to blame “Ringu”
Read More »Under Surveillance (2003) Movie Review
Dave Campfield’s independent film “Under Surveillance” is a murder-mystery, but its biggest problem is that the murder, as well as the mystery, is not entirely interesting. The film stars Eric Conley as Justin, a
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