The true story of a young soldier beaten to death for falling in love with a transgendered nightclub performer. Read the rest of this entry »

Narcotics cops Mike Lowrey (Smith) and Marcus Bennett (Lawrence) head up a task force investigating the flow of ecstasy into Miami. Their search leads to a dangerous kingpin, whose plan to control the city’s drug traffic has touched off an underground war. Meanwhile, things get sexy between Mike and Syd (Union), Marcus’s sister Read the rest of this entry »

The Earth’s core has stopped spinning, and that’s bad. Real bad. Without the magnetic field that it generates, the Earth becomes vulnerable to all sorts of bad things like electrical pulses that stop people wearing pacemakers dead in their tracks, birds losing their sense of direction, fierce storms capable of destroying whole cities. Oh yeah, and bad movies about all of these events. Read the rest of this entry »

How ironic that a film dealing with a man who literally has nothing but time on his hand end up feeling abridged. That’s just one of the problems with the update of H.G. Wells “The Time Machine,” a grin and bear it remake of George Pal’s far superior 1960 film. Read the rest of this entry »

“Possession” isn’t the latest Calvin Klein perfume, but director Neil LaButes’ film of the same name still has the scent of an intelligent, romantic drama. I never had the courage to read A.S. Byatt’s mammoth tome “Possession,” but admire LaButes’ courage to bring the tale of star-crossed lovers to the screen. Read the rest of this entry »