The Gate Release date: May 15th 1987 Rating: If there’s anything that one remembers about 1987’s The Gate, it’s that it beat mega-dud Ishtar at the box office twenty-four years ago. Well, that and it had one of the creepiest video covers ever to adorn a PG-13 flick. Any kid that ever walked into a [...]
I remember reading Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi several years ago in the summer of 2003, as part of a summer bookclub thing with a few fellow college friends. It seemed like a safe bet; popular, vague aspirations of being literary, and suitably weird. In reality, it’s something a fable, with a young boy—Piscine Molitor [...]
Rating: The world of Nicholas Sparks is not one of my preferred cinematic vacation spots. I’ll admit this up front, and concede that the author has absolutely perfected this white-washed but utterly contrived universe as a safe haven for his hungry fans. If you are wary of clichés and emotional manipulation that suck away at [...]
Guy Pearce and Maggie Grace fight their way through a smorgasboard of bad dudes aboard a futiuristic space prison in Lockout.
A cult favorite from the golden days of TV movies, Gargoyles pits Cornell Wilde against demonic beasties in Arizona
Although Tarsem Singh’s take on Snow White–the sillier Mirror, Mirror–releases next weekend, it’s this darker more fantastical version that looks like it was directed by him. Instead, this one, Snow White and the Huntsman, is helmed by newcomer Rupert Sanders.
“When you see this movie, kids will believe one day that these turtles do exist, when we’re done with this movie. These turtles are from an alien race, and they’re going to be tough, edgy, funny and completely lovable.”–Michael Bay on the planned demolishment of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles So you are telling me that [...]
Rating: Project X is like any infamous, out-of-control, teen party; it sounds a lot more interesting in anecdotes than it actually was. Produced by Todd Philips, still trying to be John Hughes of the You Tube generation, Project X gets just the right crazed energy for the party itself but lacks strong characters and [...]
Rating: Reviewing a movie like Act of Valor is like walking a tightrope. A film about the behind-the-scenes heroism of the Navy SEALs starring active-duty SEALs engaging in fictional but realistic campaigns is going to be something of a sacred cow.
Rating: I personally don’t care how many millions of dollars ‘This Means War’ brings in at the box office; it’s hands down the worst movie of the year so far. Supposedly a romantic comedy about two spies who end up fighting over the same woman, there’s nothing romantic or funny about it. I guess [...]
Rating: Jacky is a quiet and solitary guy, but he’s not exactly a likable one; working as a low-level thug for the Belgian hormone mafia, he spends his days intimidating cattle farmers into using steroid injections on their livestock. In his down time, he’s injecting testosterone cocktails of his own into his burly body, [...]
Valentine’s Day. It can be a nightmare. Maybe you have that someone special and the holiday ratrace is driving you mad. Maybe your flying solo and the endless parade of candy hearts and goopy sentimental slop have you howling at the moon and wanting to disembowel Cupid.
One of my most cherished childhood birthday presents was a collector’s edition of Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth, complete with handsome ink illustrations. It was given to me by intrepid relatives who gambled on an 19th century adventure novel being of interest to a kid of the video game era, and [...]
Studio 4C have released their animated film Berserk Golden Age Arc I: Egg of the Supreme Ruler (Berserk Ougon Jidaihen I: Hao no Tamago) in Japanese theaters this weekend and are promoting it by way of putting the opening ten minutes online.
The most foreboding image in Steven Soderbergh’s new outbreak thriller Contagion is an uncovered bowl of bar peanuts. I mean that as a compliment. At the heart of this star infested, globally minded, medical thriller, there’s a maniacal—even healthy if you will—sense of paranoia and anxiety surrounding our habits and social structures. Soderbergh takes a [...]