After suffering the embarrassment of Herbie Goes Bananas, The Love Bug is fueled up and back on track in Herbie: Fully Loaded. In the driver’s seat is Lindsay Lohan, Disney’s go-to girl when it comes to remakes (The Parent Trap, Freaky Friday). Lohan has a license to drive this franchise back into the hearts of kids everywhere. Read the rest of this entry »

Anyone who pays to see United 93 hoping to be entertained will be sadly disappointed. Quite frankly, anyone looking for any entertainment value in United 93 is out of their mind. Like Shoah, and Born Into Brothels, United 93 isn’t so much a film as a filmed document, a harrowing but ultimately heroic tale of everyday people who committed the ultimate sacrifice. Read the rest of this entry »

In February, 1945, one of the fiercest battles of the Pacific theater of World War II occurs on the tiny island of Iwo Jima. Thousands of Marines attack the stronghold maintained by thousands of Japanese, and the slaughter on both sides is horrific. Early in the battle, an American flag is raised atop the high point, Mount Suribachi, and a photograph of the raising becomes an American cause celebre Read the rest of this entry »

Fever Pitch is as artificial as Astroturf, but that doesn’t stop the romantic sports comedy from wearing its heart on it’s jersey. Maybe because it’s that time of the year, or because I’m really a romantic underneath this Wooly Mammoth exterior, but I’m a sucker for romantic comedies that play by the rules. Read the rest of this entry »

Director Tobe Hooper wanted something big to follow up his success on “Poltergeist,” and turned to this lumbering science-fiction thriller that cost plenty and didn’t make a dime. Steve Railsback (”The Stuntman”) stars as a United States astronaut who is the only survivor of a mysterious shuttle disaster. Read the rest of this entry »

As “The Matrix: Revolutions” parades through theaters, it now becomes apparent that creators, Andy and Larry Wachowski, the Emperors of Gucci trench coats and bullet time, have no clothes. They’re working from the same blueprint, perhaps believing that with enough money and visual razzle dazzle they’ll be able to obscure the fact that they’re basically telling the same story. Read the rest of this entry »

The sequel picks up 10 years later. “It’s about what happens when that lazy, 20-something malaise lasts into your 30s. Those dudes are kind of still mired, not in that same exact situation, but in a place where it’s time to actually grow up and do something more than just sit around and dissect pop culture and talk about sex,” Smith said during an interview at his Hollywood office Read the rest of this entry »