• November 22, 2006
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction, Thriller

Got it? Good, because then maybe you can watch the movie without the knotted brain and perplexed expression that overcame me about 30 minutes in and lasted through the...

• November 18, 2006
• Action, At Home, Crime, Thriller

I’d like to take this opportunity to thank Daniel Craig for doing something that no other actor playing superspy 007 has ever been able to do before: get me...

• November 1, 2006
• Action, Adventure, At Home

There are scenes in Gladiator that were directly lifted out of this Stanley Kubrick classic. The story of a slave who becomes a gladiator who becomes a general, and...

• October 27, 2006
• Action, At Home, Crime, Drama

With the success of Martin Scorcese’s The Departed, a remake of the original Infernal Affairs, there has been a renewed interest in the Hong Kong trilogy of films that...

• September 11, 2006
• Action, At Home, Crime, Drama

OK, OK, let me say say it outright: I think Lucas Black is adorable. Call me surprised to be totally enamored of this actor’s thick-as-molasses Texas accent (especially since...

• June 30, 2006
• Action, At Home, Fantasy

This Superman, played by newcomer Brandon Routh, has really good skin and eerily dark blue eyes (in that weird colored-contact way that seems to be all the rage these...

• May 28, 2006
• Action, At Home, Crime, Thriller

In historic Japan, “ronin” were samurai who had lost or been betrayed by their masters—warriors that were renegade swords-for-hire. With that in mind, we are introduced to a handful...

• May 26, 2006
• Action, At Home, Fantasy, Science Fiction

It is with much sadness and regret that I bestow a mere four slices on this latest installment of the X-Men franchise. After the stellar X2: X-Men United, I...

• May 5, 2006
• Action, At Home

So, now that you know the “plot”, here are my comments: I’d like to thank director J.J. Abrams. Not for this movie. Not for Lost or Alias. But for...

• February 10, 2006
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Science Fiction

Here’s a movie that I saw a long, looooong time ago that left two indelible images in my mind: 1) a grotesque fat man flying around a room in...

• February 8, 2006
• Action, At Home, Drama, Family

Bambi II (yikes, what a wretched title) is a harmless, straight-to-video story that  feeds off nostalgia for the classic original, while offering some new characters. Luckily, it is so...

• December 21, 2005
• Action, At Home, Comedy, Family

Okay, maybe not really nine thousand, but it sure felt like there were way more of them than there were the first time we encountered the Baker clan. Sadly,...