Archive for June, 2003

Hostel

Ah, to be young, stupid, and horny. Never a good combination while looking for sex in all the wrong places. Just ask Americans Paxton (Jay Hernandez) and Josh (Derek Richardson), college buddies in Amsterdam looking for hot sex and legal drugs. Read the rest of this entry »

Hard Rain

1997 may have come and gone, but Hollywood is still putting out the trash from last year. Last year, the disaster genre was revived (and immediately killed) by such entries as “Volcano,” “Dante’s Peak,” “Turbulence,” and “Speed 2: Cruise Control.” Mountains gurgled, planes crashed, and ocean liners became floating death traps. Read the rest of this entry »

Dangerous Beauty

A lot of films come and go at the box office so quickly that they have little time to make an impact. Most of them deserve their quick and painless death. Others deserve a look see, while a handful just seem to get lost in the shuffle. “Dangerous Beauty” is one of those films that came and went so quickly most people don’t even know it exists, which is a sad thing because the film is one of the year’s best. Read the rest of this entry »