Category: Movie Reviews

Cast: ma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen, Sonny Chiba Studio: Miramax Rating: 8.5/10 Corporate Line: Continuing the story-line which unfolded in “Kill Bill Vol. I,” this is a revenge tale of an expert assassin, called The Bride, who sets out on a quest to wreak vengeance upon her former employer, Bill, and other…

Cast: Steve Martin, Bonnie Hunt, Hilary Duff, Piper Perabo, Tom Welling Studio: Fox Rating: 4/10 Corporate Line: When Tom Baker (Martin) gets a job offer to coach football at Northwestern University in Chicago, he and his wife, Mary (Hunt), move to the big city, which is a big change for them and their 12 children,…

Cast: Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry, Natasha Henstridge, Amanda Peet, Kevin Pollak Studio: Warner Bros. Rating: 5.5/10 Corporate Line: This movie follows the continuing wacky misadventures of a hitman, Jimmy the Tulip (Willis), who lives next door to a mild-mannered dentist, Oz (Perry). Following the events of ‘The Whole Nine Yards,’ Oz is now married to…

Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Penélope Cruz Studio: Paramount Rating: 6/10 CORPORATE LINE: Master explorer Dirk Pitt ® (Matthew McConaughey) takes on the adventure of his life when he embarks on a treasure hunt through some of the most dangerous regions of West Africa. Searching for what locals call “The Ship of Death”, a long lost Civil…

Cast: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Kristen Wilson, Neal McDonough, Ashley Scott, Johnny Knoxville Studio: MGM Rating: 7/10 Corporate Line: In Walking Tall, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson plays Chris Vaughn, a retired soldier who returns to his hometown to make a new life for himself, only to discover his wealthy high school rival, Jay Hamilton (Neal…

Cast: Ron Perlman, David Hyde Pierce, Doug Jones, Karel Roden, Victoria Smurfit Studio: Sony Rating: 7.5/10 Corporate Line: When a Nazi mystical experiment goes awry in 1944, the target of a wizard’s spell, the child of Satan, Hellboy, is wrenched from his home, and adopted by the U.S. agents who intercept his arrival. Raised as…

Cast: Julia Stiles, Luke Mably, Miranda Richardson, James Fox, Ben Miller Studio: Paramount Rating: 6.5/10 Corporate Line: Paige (Stiles), a free-spirited American college student (and motorcycling enthusiast) starting her education at an Indiana university, meets and falls in love with one of her classmates, but what she doesn’t know is that he’s actually a Danish…

Cast: Tom Hanks, Marlon Wayans Studio: Touchstone Rating: 6/10 Corporate Line: A remake of the critically acclaimed 1955 comedy, The Ladykillers. Tom Hanks stars as Goldthwait Higginson Dorr III, Ph.D., a charlatan professor who’s assembled a gang of ‘experts’ for the heist of the century. The thieves: experts in explosions, tunneling, and muscle, and the…

Cast: Freddie Prinze, Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar Studio: WB Rating: 6/10 Corporate Line: In Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, Scooby and the gang confront an anonymous masked villain who is plotting to take over the city of Coolsville by wreaking mayhem with a monster machine that creates Mystery Inc.’s classic foes like The Pterodactyl Ghost, The…

Cast: Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland Studio: Warner Bros. Rating: 5.5/10 Corporate Line: A top FBI profiler, Special Agent Illeana Scott (Angelina Jolie) doesn’t rely on traditional crime-solving techniques to unravel the mysteries of a murderous mind. Her intuitive, unconventional approach often makes the crucial difference between catching a killer and sending a dead-end…