Bridge to Terabithia is based on the book of the same name. I wasn’t going to watch this movie because it looked like they had totally destroyed the book in order to make a fantasy story OR they were totally … Continue reading
Apocalypto is the Mel Gibson-directed flick set in the time of the Mayan Empire – or rather the decline of the Empire. It’s really about a villager who doesn’t know about the Mayans or their crazy city. He and his … Continue reading
Casino Royale is not only a very good movie, but a very good James Bond movie. 007 is new on the job and gets his ass kicked a bunch – and then he drives a standard Ford sedan (gasp). No … Continue reading
A Sound of Thunder is based (loosely) on the short story by Ray Bradbury. It’s really quite dumb and some of the FX are just kind of quaint and silly and 5 years old… but they are ambitious, I’ll give … Continue reading
The Dukes of Hazzard movie was a pretty average-to-less-so movie. Some bad editing and pacing which made some things make very little sense. But I guess I’m not looking for massive logic in this movie so I guess I can … Continue reading
Fantastic 4 was pretty dumb and sometimes wildly illogical but I’ve seen much worse… in the end, the best compliment I can give it was, “Wow. That was fairly pointless”. I mean… the movie happened and then it was over. … Continue reading
Shock! BAM! WOW! I checked out Sky High and – SHOCK – it’s really very good. I was never bored and always entertained. There were only a few moments where I wished the movie had done something different – and … Continue reading
The Island is yet another winner from the suddenly pseudo-intellectual wiz-kid Michael “I’m not a hack and this proves it” Bay. According to EW at the time, there was a great script that Spielberg gave to Bay for some reason, … Continue reading
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a sublimely weird movie that is going to have some people just scratching their head in bewilderment. I certainly uttered a “What the hell?” a few times when things got particularly daffy. The flick … Continue reading
The Bad News Bears is a remake of the original 70s flick. Billy Bob Thornton was cast because of Bad Santa, surely, and the movie has – at least early on – a lot of the Bad Santa in it. … Continue reading