• October 21, 2004
• Action, At Home, Drama

Films about transgendered people aren’t exactly filling up the multi-plexes. For that reason alone, Beautiful Boxer is pretty special. But to its credit, it is actually a pretty charming...

• October 6, 2004
• Action, At Home, Comedy, Crime

With an arguably weak script on which to base its antics, Taxi is constantly struggling to create comic moments but the attempts repeatedly fizzle out. The story follows perpetual...

• October 1, 2004
• Action, At Home, Drama, Thriller

Why? Because about two minutes into Ladder 49, as a crew of firefighters are climbing stairs in a burning warehouse, Robert Patrick’s character says, “I’m gettin’ too old for...

• August 27, 2004
• Action, At Home, Drama

Lost in the shuffle between Steven Spielberg’s acclaimed first movie, the made-for-TV thriller Duel, and his blockbuster shark tale Jaws, was a chase movie called The Sugarland Express. I...

• August 27, 2004
• Action, At Home, Horror

Apparently someone somewhere thought maybe, just maybe, if they dumped this film into the cinematic wasteland that is late-August, it might ring up a little box office change. So...

• July 23, 2004
• Action, At Home

As for the movie itself… The plot is a fairly thin one, but one that provides a nice thread onto which the filmmakers pile heaps and heaps and HEAPS...

• July 7, 2004
• Action, Adventure, At Home

At no point do the Knights in King Arthur link arms and sing: “We’re Knights of the Round Table! We dance when e’er we’re able!” Perhaps saddest of all,...

• June 20, 2004
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Comedy

Admittedly, I wasn’t expecting much from this adaptation of the Jules Verne classic, especially since it stars Jackie Chan – whose last two big-screen forays (The Medallion and Shanghai...

• May 28, 2004
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction

Disaster film formula: Heal a broken family by putting them in the middle of a disaster. Estranged father makes up for past of broken promises by saving estranged teenage...

• February 12, 2004
• Action, At Home, Crime, Drama

I love guy movies. I love onscreen explosions. What’s not to love about Backdraft? I spent the entire movie working on that question, and finally realized that it has...

• October 23, 2003
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Comedy

After the huge popular and critical success of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas cruised on their egos and made the dark, unfunny, and overall...

• October 23, 2003
• Action, Adventure, At Home

Until I rewatched Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom recently, I had forever associated the film with getting my teeth drilled. Literally. You see, the last time I...