Twenty-ish years after the events of the original Matrix trilogy, shaggy, middle-aged Thomas Anderson (Keanu Reeves) seems to be sleepwalking through his daily reality. A big-time video game designer of a huge hit reality-melting game called, yes, The Matrix, Thomas seems in a daze, popping the blue pill prescribed by his Analyst (Neil Patrick Harris), …
Expensive, explosive and effects-driven, The Day the Earth Stood Still has all the trademarks of a high-concept summer release… which is to say it’s not particularly interested in telling a great story or featuring compelling performances, but it sure does want to go big or go home. Based on the 1951 sci-fi classic of the …
Street Kings is a bizarre and admittedly kind of fascinating cop movie. It suffers from what on the surface (and well, not so surface) is an “all cops are corrupt, even the good guy” plot that has been done before. It suffers from the limited range of Keanu Reeves in the lead role as the …
When The Devil’s Advocate first came to video in the late nineties, my co-workers at a tiny independent video store literally fought over who got to keep the screener. Yes, a VHS screener that periodically ran the words “property of Warner Home Video” right over pivotal scenes and threatened death and doom if one were …