Monthly Archives: November 2009
Retro Review: The Two Towers
It’s always hardest to do the middle film in a proposed trilogy of films. The second film is always the maker or breaker of a franchise. In some of the most successful franchises of all time, the second film has gone on to eclipse its predecessor. Examples of these stellar sequels are series like “Aliens”, [...]
Retro Review: The Fellowship of the Ring
New Zealand director and visionary Peter Jackson spent over two years of filming time to bring forth the vision created by fantasy guru J.R.R Tolkien. His epic masterpiece was deemed unfilmable in its whole but Jackson’s passion helped him begin an epic quest of his own. The first of three books of Tolkien’s masterpiece is [...]
Retro Review: Looney Tunes: Back in Action
Melding the world of human beings and cartoon characters on the silver screen has been a horrendous and often disastrous task for filmmakers. The biggest success and still the staple of this genre was the revolutionary 1988 film, “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” The film showed that humans and toons could interact given a good script [...]
Foreign Review: Howl’s Moving Castle
Master storyteller Hayao Miyazaki follows-up his Academy Award winning animated film “Spirited Away” with a tale of wizards, witches, spells and mysterious walking castle.
Turkey Review: Son of the Mask
This is probably the worst film I have ever seen!
Movie Review: Old Dogs
You can’t teach an old dog new tricks. The same thing can be said for this new comedy. In the new comedy from Wild Hogs director Walt Becker, John Travolta teams with Robin Williams as two advertising agents who find themselves on the fine line between being a grandparent and being middle aged. Robin’s life changes when [...]
Retro Review: The Guardian
There have been at least a thousand different films about arrogant rookies who endure basic training and make their new commanding officer proud. We have had army, air force and marines but has their ever been one about US Coast Guard? Furthermore, do we need one? The Guardian stars Kevin Costner as Ben Randall, a [...]
Retro Review: The Great Raid
Please let me go! I need to leave! I just can’t take it anymore. These are probably some of the things that prisoners of war said to themselves while they endured captivity during wartime. For me, these were the things I was muttering to myself as I endured the 133 minute war-melodrama “The Great Raid”. [...]
Retro Review: I, Robot
Director Alex Proyas, helmer of such cult favorites as “Dark City” and “The Crow”, steps into the Hollywood limelight with his first attempt at a mainstream Hollywood blockbuster. “I, Robot” chronicles the life of Detective Del Spooner (Will Smith) who has a techno-phobic view of the world’s newest appliance, a life-like robot created by the [...]
Retro Review: I Spy
Owen Wilson finds himself in yet another action-buddy comedy. This time he is teamed with Eddie Murphy in a remake of the 1960’s TV series “I-Spy”.
