(1 Feb) Into the Sun (2005, mink)66 [ Um, ok. This is one of those DTV flicks Steven Seagal keeps making (and Vern keeps reviewing) but, surprisingly, it’s not all that cheap and generic. For…
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Schoolhouse Rock!
What a brilliant concept: to educate kids with the use of the two things they can’t get enough, cartoons and music. Now, 30 years after these dynamic shorts were introduced into ABC’s Saturday morning children’s…
The Last Airbender
One of the things I hate most about critics as a group is their bullying tendencies. You know, how they’ll regularly gang up on an actor (Tom Cruise, anyone?) or a filmmaker (like M. Night…
Manhattan Murder Mystery
Woody Allen and Diane Keaton have been married for many years, and their lives aren’t as exciting as they once were. They live in New York, they’re intellectuals, they make good money and they’ve spent…
THE PHANTOM
Movie Infos Title: The Phantom Rating: Year: 1996 Director: Simon Wincer Starring: Billy Zane Treat Williams Kristy Swanson Catherine Zeta-Jones James Remar … Super-heroes films usually suck because studio execs almost always try to cheapen…
Something’s Gotta Give
For some reason, Troma Studios president Lloyd Kaufman really really hates Nancy Meyers. When I attended his Make Your Own Damn Movie! master class last summer, he mentioned her previous film What Women Want at…
HONEYMOON IN VEGAS
Movie Infos Title: Honeymoon in Vegas Year: 1992 Director: Andrew Bergman Las Vegas at night. A plane flies over the city. Then drops a team of skydivers, all dressed as Elvis! Cool, right? Now, imagine…
A Dirty Shame
Here’s what I wrote after seeing “Pink Flamingos”, John Waters’ 1972 “classic”: How do you rate a movie that looks and sounds dirt-cheap, with the clumsiest direction and ghastliest acting? This barely qualifies as a…
MYSTERY MEN
Movie Infos Title: Mystery Men Year: 1999 Director: Kinka Usher Writer: Neil Cuthbert, Bob Burden, Brent Forrester Starring: Ben Stiller Janeane Garofalo William H. Macy Hank Azaria Paul Reubens … Oh, this is such a…
Citizen Kane
When I was going to film school, I sometimes found it hard to sit through some of the movies the teachers made us watch, especially when I felt that even them must find their own…