Archive for the 'Movies' Category

1997 U Turn Movie Starring Everybody - Review

Saturday, March 4th, 2006

This movie sucks. I don’t know how Oliver Stone, director of Wall Street, could have directed such a boring, disjointed, wannabe-David-Lynch film. Like the movie Crash, the movie U-Turn took an impressive ensemble cast - Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Jennifer Lopez (well… she’s hot at least), Bill Bob Thornton, Claire Danes, Joaquin Phoenix, Jon Voight, […]

2004 Kinsey Movie Starring Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, and John Lithgow - Review

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

Between one thumbs down and two thumbs down, I’d have to give this movie two thumbs down.

The first is for its mediocrity. Although I like Liam Neeson, John Lithgow, and especially Peter Sarsgaard, the plot of the movie ambled this way and that, finally disintegrating into a series of disjointed vinettes. For example, there is […]

2005 Bewitched Starring Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

So, everybody said Bewitched was a crummy film, but I enjoyed it. My girlfriend ordered it up lone night on DirecTV.
My downstairs neighbor in Los Angeles worked as an editor on Bewitched until, I think, her boss’ entire team was canned. I thought it was funny they were turning an old TV show I […]

2005 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe - Move Review

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

When I was a child I read not only all the Narnia books, but many of the Wizard of Oz books. (Not all the Wizard of Oz books because in addition to Baum’s 14 books, there were dozens of other ‘official’ books and more ‘unofficial’ books.) The two series are similar to me in that […]

2004 Crash Movie by Paul Haggis

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Crash is the very worst kind of movie: technically superb, with fine actors, fine acting, and a shout-at-the-writer-across-the-street screenplay.

The Lost World

Tuesday, December 13th, 2005

I’d rather Spielberg vomit on my face than dunk me in that intellectual cesspool ever again. That was the first movie I ever saw where every single one of us literally became enraged at the stupidity and stood afterward in the parking lot cursing Spielberg and suggesting options for retribution. (And all of […]