Monthly Archives: January 2011
Retro Review: World is Not Enough
Pierce Brosnan’s third outing as James Bond and one of his best. Feeling responsible for the death of a British oil tycoon and a friend, who died in an explosion in MI6 HQ, James Bond takes position as bodyguard to the tycoon’s daughter, Elektra (Sophie Marceau), who has a mysterious past and hidden agenda. In [...]
Retro Review: Impostor
Sci-fi guru and visionary Phillip K. Dick dreamed of far off worlds and intricate plots that still fascinate us today. His sci-fi masterpieces have spawned such classic sci-fi films as “Blade Runner” and “Total Recall”. What seems to be a common thread through his stories, which have been brought to the screen, are the ideas [...]
Retro Review: Up at the Villa
A smaller film with that old style charm. “Up at the Villa” chronicles the story of beautiful British aristocrat, Mary (Kristin Scott Thomas) who is living in Italy during World War II. Mary is debating if she should marry a much older British lord (James Fox). During her debate, she is faced with the brutish [...]
Movie Review: Atlantis: Milo’s Return
Disney is a mass marketing, all consuming, tug at our heart-strings and take our cash kind of conglomerate. Put movies back in the vault, so make sure you buy them up until they disappear and come back with a new media format. (Paging Netflix) Atlantis: Milo’s Return is everything that is wrong with Disney. I [...]
Retro Review: Atlantis: Lost Empire
One of the most ambitious Disney animated projects in years. “Atlantis” centers around a shy, educated dreamer named Milo Thatch (Michael J. Fox). Milo is carrying on his grandfather’s quest which is to find the lost and forgotten city of Atlantis. Milo’s fascinations with the myths surrounding Atlantis turn him into an outsider in the [...]
Retro Review: Troy
One of the greatest wars of the Ancient World was forged between rivals Greece and Troy. The war itself and its immortal heroes were chronicled by legendary scribe Homer in his immortal epic, “The Iliad”. The many players who inhabited that legendary tale are brought to life in a new film. The film’s chronicling of [...]
Retro Review: The Terminal
Can you possibly imagine what it is like to be a person who doesn’t exist? A freak of nature that has slipped through the cracks of our society. How can this happen? What is he or she to do? How can we fix the problem? In the new film from director Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks [...]
Retro Review: Stuart Little 2
It has been three years since we visited with Stuart Little (Michael J Fox), a little white mouse and his human family, the Littles. It is hard to imagine we ever left with the delightful sequel to the 1999 film. In the 1999 film, a human family adopts a white mouse and we watch the [...]
