Est. 1998
That lousy piece of hooey is sappy, phony, dumb and unoriginal, but it somehow became a huge hit. What are people thinking? I gotta admit that it’s kinda enjoyable, in a sugarcoated l’il story for a rainy afternoon way, but still… What really sucks is how superficial and predictable it is, so you know exactly what’s gonna happen before the end of the opening credits….
In Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man, when Peter Parker administers a solid and spectacular ass-whupping to Flash, the musclebound pretty-boy who humiliates him daily, in view of Mary Jane, the viewer enjoys an incredible catharsis by seeing a fantastic event (a young man suddenly invested with super-powers) correcting a real injustice (geeks worldwide getting beat up day after day by cool guys). Sky High happily offers this same catharsis through…
When I received this DVD, my first reaction was: “They’re still around?” You see, I was once a fan of Iron Maiden… Ten years ago! And even then, hair metal bands were past their prime. Still, me and especially the Beavis & Butthead types I hung out with dug Maiden a lot. Since then I moved on to other kinds of music, listening to bands…
THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS (2001, Rob Cohen)73 [ review ] 2 FAST 2 FURIOUS (2003, John Singleton)52 [ review ] THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS: TOKYO DRIFT (2006, Justin Lin)44 [ “The Fast and the Furious” was a starmaking vehicle (pun intended) for Vin Diesel… Then came “2 Fast 2 Furious”, sans Vin Diesel, but still with Paul Walker… And now in “Tokyo Drift”,…
Tracksuits are a dead giveaway. Even if you’re being told that you’re part of an elite, that you’ve been chosen for a special purpose and that wonderful things await you, be suspicious if you’re all wearing tracksuits. If you’re being referred to by numbers, forget about it, RUN!!! Lincoln Six Echo (Ewan McGregor) has been living for years in a mysterious facility where everyone wears…
Movie Infos Title: Ocean’s Eleven Year: 2001 Director: Steven Soderbergh Writer: Ted Griffin Starring: George Clooney Brad Pitt Matt Damon Don Cheadle Julia Roberts … How cool is George Clooney? From the first five minutes of “From Dusk Till Dawn”, I knew he would become a huge movie star eventually. Alright, “Batman & Robin” was lackluster, and he’s made a few other ho-hum movies, but…
You might have heard about the Frat Pack, an unofficial fraternity of current Hollywood comedy actors who seem to always be co-starring with one another. Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller have played opposite each other in half a dozen movies, while Stiller and Vince Vaughn have been in three flicks together. Vaughn and Wilson both appeared in Stiller’s Zoolander and Starsky & Hutch, but they had practically no…
Troma is a company in a class of its own, or more accurately, a lack of class of its own. They pride themselves as being the last genuine independent studio, and they might be right. Here’s a production team with absolutely no corporate endorsement which survives only through its dedicated fan base which eat up every new insane flick they produce. Troma movies are like…
1999 brought a full barge of teen movies, most of them corny, shallow duds (“She’s All That” anyone?). But amongst all that were a few gems like “Election”, “Rushmore”, and to a lesser extent, “Cruel Intentions”. The film boasts fresh young faces and a hip soundtrack, but it actually has something to say about life and human nature; it’s not just about who you’re gonna…
When the producer of Guy Ritchie’s movies makes his directorial debut, you have certain expect- ations. Is this gonna be another derivative, fast and furious, flashy but empty post-Tarantino gangster movie? Not quite. Michael Vaughn’s first film is indeed about criminals and it does occasionally go for style-for-style’s-sake, ain’t-it-cool badass attitude and violent gags. Yet there’s a more serious undercurrent, a sense that this is…