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Granny (1999) Movie Review
I like to think that when it comes to Teen Slasher movies I’m a little more lenient than your average movie critic. Given the right ingredients of sex, violence, and gore, I’m usually quite
Read More »No Retreat, No Surrender (1985) Movie Review
The ’80s was a magical period in American filmmaking. How else can you explain the daily visitations of awful tripe like “No Retreat, No Surrender” to your local Cineplex? Nowadays, a film as bad
Read More »Before Sunrise (1995) Movie Review
Richard Linklater’s “Before Sunrise” is an aimless 1995 movie about two strangers, American Ethan Hawke and French woman Julie Delpy (“Killing Zoe”), who meets by accident on a train and decides to spend one
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Double Vision (2003) Movie Review
Kuo-fu Chen’s “Double Vision” was written, executed, and intended for international audiences, so maybe this is why the film lacks a more “Asian” feel. Oh sure, the screenplay by Chen and Chao-Bin Su makes
Read More »City of Ghosts (2003) Movie Review
I didn’t know much about “City of Ghosts” going into the film except that it was the feature-length debut of first-time writer/director Matt Dillon (“Deuces Wild”). Dillon also stars in the movie as Jimmy,
Read More »Wendigo (2001) Movie Review
Horror movies that put young children in the middle of supernatural events to be terrorized as their parents sit idly by in the next room are nothing new. Although there does seem to be
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Dobermann (1997) Movie Review
It would be a mistake to consider Jan Kounen’s “Dobermann” an actual movie. It’s a 90-minute music video in the guise of a “clever” crime thriller with hidden desires to be cheap splatterpunk nonsense.
Read More »Hometown Legend (2003) Movie Review
“Hometown Legend” takes place in the small town of Athens, Alabama, where the only thing more important than mom, apple pie, and God is football. After a star football player, and the team’s coach’s
Read More »Agent Cody Banks (2003) Movie Review
In a strange way it’s a testament to the originality of the James Bond movies that most spy films since has either tried to emulate it or turn the whole secret agent formula on
Read More »Python 2 (2002) Movie Review
I think it goes without saying that a movie called “Python 2″ is bad. Even for a Straight-to-Video movie, a class of picture that is usually synonymous with the word “bad movie”, “Python 2″
Read More »The Dead Next Door (1988) Movie Review
If I had to guess, I would say that J.R. Bookwalter, the auteur behind the no-budget zombie opus “The Dead Next Door”, shot his movie with a 8MM film camera. It looks grainy enough,
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Asoka (2001) Movie Review
Despite having taken a course in Indian History in college, my biggest interest coming into the Indian epic “Asoka”, about the life of India’s greatest king/patron of Buddhism, wasn’t a matter of historical accuracy.
Read More »Blue Collar Comedy Tour (2003) Movie Review
The Stand-up Movie genre started, I believe, in the late ’70s and early ’80s with comedians like Eddie Murphy, Bill Cosby, and Richard Pryor. Or at least the genre didn’t become popular until those
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The Crow (1994) Movie Review
James O’Barr’s “The Crow” comic book, which originally ran in the late ’80s/early ’90s as a 4-issue mini-series, was a brilliant and nihilistic story of everlasting love, unrelenting pain, and human nature gone terribly,
Read More »Princess Bride (1987) Movie Review
The real star of 1987′s “The Princess Bride” is writer William Goldman (“Hearts in Atlantis”), whose screenplay is at once trite, romantic, effective, and minimalistic. “Bride” is the type of movie that would be
Read More »Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula (2000) Movie Review
Joe Chappelle’s “Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula” is not really, well, true. While the movie claims to present the “true” story of a Romanian prince name Vlad who had to fight off
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Hush! (2001) Movie Review
I hate to admit it, but sometimes watching an Asian drama, most notably those from China, Japan, and South Korea, is like watching paint dry, only less productive. Sometimes one can’t help but get
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Equilibrium (2003) Movie Review
Bursting at the seams with style, coolness, and balls out action, Kurt Wimmer’s 2002 film “Equilibrium” defies logic (but probably not Hollywood logic, if such a thing exists) by not getting a bigger theatrical
Read More »The Specials (2000) Movie Review
You don’t get anymore niche than 2000′s “The Specials”, about a group of loser superheroes who are “the 6th or 7th best superhero group” in the world. Like “Comic Book Villains”, another movie based
Read More »Old School (2003) Movie Review
“Old School” is probably not as raunchy or lowbrow as you may have heard. Well, yes, it’s quite lowbrow in some areas, but compared to comedies like “The Sweetest Thing” and anything involving Tom
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