I wasn’t thrilled the first time I saw “Rocky.” It wasn’t one of my favorite films at the time. Now “Rocky” is 25 years old, and it’s amazing how time can change your outlook. “Rocky” is the sort of film that has to work its magic on you. I wasn’t interested in a magic show 25 years ago. Now I embrace the film’s charm and ability to take common themes and make them special. Read the rest of this entry »
The Evil Dead meets Scream as an evil professor, through an ancient staff and a book of incantation, possesses the bodies of a group of fraterity and sorority pledges during a night of “hazing” activities in an abandoned mansion. When the students meet one grisly death after another, the survivors finally realize it’s the professor who is possessing their friends and killing them all off. Now none of them trust each other— is it their friends or puppets of the professor that they’re hanging with? Somone better figure it out quick Read the rest of this entry »
The first time I saw “One Magic Christmas,” I was perplexed. I didn’t know what to make of the film. At the time it seemed dark and moody, not really the calling cards of a holiday family movie. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s not that flat - mates Shaun (Simon Pegg) and Ed (Nick Frost) are clueless. They are. You just can’t blame them for not noticing their neighborhood has been overrun with zombies. As Shaun of the Dead begins, it’s difficult to tell the living from the living dead. We watch as people trudge through their everyday lives, so systematically beaten down they look and walk like zombies. Read the rest of this entry »
The writing-directing brother team of Andy and Larry Wachowski must have felt like illusionist David Copperfield after their runaway hit “The Matrix” became a pop culture phenomenon. After you’ve made the Statue of Liberty disappear, how do you top it? Read the rest of this entry »
It’s Friday at Central Park Zoo in New York, and that means tour groups. Lots of them, mostly school kids, the perfect audience for the spoiled and pampered animals. Just ask Alex (Ben Stiller) the lion, the zoo’s star and chief proponent of fast food and easy living. Today is also Marty (Chris) the zebra’s tenth birthday, and even before he blows out the candles on his cake, Marty knows exactly what he wants: freedom! Read the rest of this entry »
After spending another summer watching and reviewing movies starring and aimed at teenagers, what a pleasure it is to spend quality time with some old friends. Read the rest of this entry »
Routinely exploited by her wicked stepmother, the downtrodden Sam Martin is excited about the prospect of meeting her Internet beau at the school’s Halloween dance. Read the rest of this entry »
Killer robots. Lascivious coeds. Lisping Kung-Fu heroes. Bad odors. Dead kids.
They’re all part of the landscape of “Kentucky Fried Movie,” the brainchild of the driving force behind “Airplane,” “The Naked Gun” and “Ruthless People.” Long before Peter Graves asked a young boy if he liked gladiator movies, “Airplane” creators Jerry Zucker, James Abrahams and David Zucker were known for their stage antics at the “Kentucky Fried Theater” in Los Angeles. Read the rest of this entry »
A love story about two imperfect teenagers who find perfect love. The film follows the story of two teenagers from different worlds—Mark Deloach and Dori Lawrence—as their lives quickly spiral out of control. The rebellious but privileged Mark delves into dangerous antics resulting in a nearly fatal drunk driving accident, and Dori Lawrence, a wild actress and singer slowly loses touch with reality as she suffers from schizophrenia Read the rest of this entry »
For a film that takes place 31 years in the future, “I, Robot” feels dated. Make that carbon dated. Filled with archaic ideas about robots on the rampage, “I, Robot,” based loosely (very loosely) on the Issac Asimov collection of science-fiction stories, is a big budget blender that can’t seem to separate the pulp from the fiction. Read the rest of this entry »
Four generations of men who haven’t seen each other in years are suddenly brought together by the chance to uncover the truth about their family’s past. It’s a journey that takes them out on the road to a world full of surprises - some comic, some dramatic, and all of them personal. Read the rest of this entry »
The nightmare isn’t over, General Cain ordered The Hive to be reopened, and in doing so contaminated all of Raccoon City, a city of the dead, with Alice stuck right in the middle. Now, along with other surviors, Jill Valentine, Carlos Oliviera and his Captain, Nicholai, they must fight to survive, to escape the nightmare that has plaqed Raccoon City. But now there is a new threat: Matt Addison has fully mutated into a seemingly unstoppable creature, code named Nemesis, who will stop at nothing until everything around it is dead, but it also has another agenda Read the rest of this entry »
The sea underworld is shaken up when the son of the shark mob boss is found dead and a young fish named Oscar is found at the scene. Being a bottom feeder, Oscar takes advantage of the situation and makes himself look like he killed the finned mobster. Oscar soon comes to realize that his claim may have serious consequences Read the rest of this entry »
It all begins in a small Oregon town, when shy Sam (RORY CULKIN) confesses to his protective older brother Rocky that he is getting pummeled daily by the towering school bully, George. Together, they plan the perfect payback, inviting George on a birthday river trip tailor-made to end in the bully’s humiliation. Rocky’s pals Clyde and Marty and Sam’s budding girlfriend Millie also join the journey, which starts almost immediately with misgivings Read the rest of this entry »