• April 15, 2015
• Adventure, At Home, Family

As someone whose entire appreciation of Mark Twain’s work comes from movies, I wholeheartedly support adapting his classic novels for film. Without the 1973 version of Tom Sawyer or...

• February 8, 2014
• Action, At Home, Crime, Drama

Heat begins with a love scene between Al Pacino and Diane Venora so steamy that it makes me weak in the knees just to think about it. I can’t...

• April 22, 2013
• At Home, Western

When Tombstone came out, it was the battle of the Wyatt Earp movies, with Kevin Costner’s Wyatt Earp being released within a year of this one (as Hollywood is...

• February 9, 2009
• Action, At Home, Drama, Thriller

Felon is one of those movies I blindly put on hold at the library based on the fact that it was a new release and had a decent cast....

• February 3, 2009
• At Home, Comedy, Crime, Music

As a rule, I can count the things I hated about the 80s on one hand. In fact, it usually doesn’t even take a whole hand to do so....

• 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...

• December 6, 2005
• Action, At Home, Comedy, Crime

As I settle in to write this review, I can’t help wishing I had more than eight slices of pie to bestow upon Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. I’m not...

• February 23, 2005
• Action, Adventure, At Home

Wait a minute, nobody around here has reviewed Alexander yet?  Not one of us rushed right out to see Oliver Stone’s epic masterpiece?  No one even wanted to see...

• November 12, 2000
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction, Thriller

TIM: I should have known, going in, that any movie with Val Kilmer should be killed before release. There was soooo much hype about this movie that you had...