“Pearl Harbor” is a movie you just couldn’t avoid. I must have seen the trailer fifty times; fortunately, it’s one of the best crafted ones I’ve ever seen, so it never bored me. What came…
Date Archives May 2008
Terminator Salvation
About Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, which I was one of the few to love enough to put it on my year-end Top Ten in 2003, I wrote that “even though the stakes are…
Billy Madison
I think what critics hate about Adam Sandler is the reason why I myself like his work: he doesn’t give a damn about critics, all that matters to him is making you laugh. In this,…
Mean Girls
I love girls. Really, I love them, which is a good thing because this movie is all about them, what makes them so lovable but also all those little things they do that threaten to…
INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL
Over the last year, two of the most influential Hollywood franchises of the 1980s, “Die Hard” and “Rambo”, have already added fourth installments. But those comebacks were small potatoes compared to the one we are…
Stealing Harvard
John (Jason Lee) lives a relatively pleasant existence… Except that he hates his job, his girlfriend (Leslie Mann) can be pushy and bitchy and his father-in-law (Dennis Farina) is an overprotective madman! Oh, and he…