Category: Movie Reviews

Cast: Cate Blanchett, Colin Farrell, Brenda Fricker, Ciaran Hinds, Darragh Kelly Studio: Touchstone Rating: 8/10 Corporate Line: Veronica Guerin (Blanchett) was an award-winning journalist for Dublin’s Sunday Independent, whose investigations into the city’s drug underworld puts her in increasing danger… The Good: Based upon a real movie and a moving story at that. Cate Blanchett…

Cast: Liam Aiken, Matthew Broderick, Megan Mullally, Brittany Murphy, Kevin Nealon Studio: MGM Rating: 7.5/10 Corporate Line: Ever wonder why dogs are man’s best friends? Well, like Michael Corleone said in The Godfather Part II, “keep your friends close, and your enemies closer”, and that’s what this movie suggests is actually going on! From the…

Cast: George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones Studio: Universal Rating: 8/10 Corporate Line: A slick Beverly Hills divorce lawyer (Clooney) frames the wife (Zeta-Jones) of a client to get him released from the marriage without a settlement. She vows to get revenge by marrying the attorney, aiming to take him to the cleaners in their own savage…

Cast: Jack Black, Joan Cusack, Sarah Silverman Studio: Paramount Rating: 9/10 Corporate Line: Fired from his band, rock guitarist and vocalist Dewey Finn (Black) takes a job as a 4th grade substitute teacher at an uptight private school where his free livin’ lifestyle, attitude, music and antics soon influences the students to explore other sides…

Cast: Denzel Washington, Sanaa Lathan, Eva Mendes, Dean Cain, John Billingsley Studio: MGM Rating: 5/10 Corporate Line: When the police chief (Washington) of a small Florida town “borrows” money from the evidence room so he can run away with a woman (Lathan) he’s always been in love with, she quickly betrays him, revealing that she…

Cast: The Rock, Seann William Scott, Christopher Walken, Rosario Dawson, Ernie Misko Studio: Universal Rating: 7/10 Corporate Line: When Travis (Scott), the son of an underworld kingpin, disappears in the Amazon in search of a priceless artifact, Beck (Rock), the kingpin’s retrieval expert, is sent to get him. Despite their hostility – and their love…

Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Bill Nighy, Danny McBride, Michael Sheen Studio: Screen Gems Rating: 5/10 Corporate Line: Set in the secret nocturnal and supernatural world of vampires and werewolves, two groups that have been at war for centuries, this is the story of a romance between a female vampire warrior, Selene (Beckinsale), who’s famous…

Cast: Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell, Alison Lohman, Bruce McGill, Bruce Altman Studio: Warner Bros. Rating: 8/10 Corporate Line: Phobia-addled con artist Roy (Cage) and his protégé Frank (Rockwell) are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the unexpected arrival of Roy’s teenage daughter Angela (Lohman) disrupts his carefully-ordered life and jeopardizes his…

Cast: Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek Studio: Dimension Rating: 5/10 Corporate Line: Robert Rodriguez returns with the mythic guitar-slinging hero, El Mariachi (Antonio Banderas), in the final installment of the Mariachi/Desperado trilogy. The saga continues as El Mariachi makes his way across a rugged landscape on the blood trail of Barrillo (Willem Dafoe), a cartel kingpin…

Cast: David Spade, Alyssa Milano, Jon Lovitz, Mary McCormack, Rachel Dratch, Edie McClurg Studio: Paramount Rating: 8/10 Corporate Line: TV child star of the ’70s, Dickie Roberts is now 35 and parking cars. Craving to regain the spotlight, he auditions for a role of a “normal” guy, but the director quickly sees he is anything…