Category: Movie Reviews

Cast: Jonathan Breck, Justin Long, Nicki Lynn Aycox, Ray Wise, Billy Aaron Brown Studio: MGM Rating: 3/10 Corporate Line: As its 23 horrifying days of flesh-eating come to an end, an ancient creature known as the Creeper embarks on a final voracious feeding frenzy, terrorizing a group of varsity basketball players, cheerleaders and coaches stranded…

Cast: Jackie Chan, Claire Forlani, Studio: Screen Gems Rating: 7/10 Corporate Line: Jackie Chan stars as Eddie Yang, a resolute Hong Kong cop who suffers a near fatal accident while investigating a case involving a mysterious medallion. Eddie soon discovers that with the powerful medallion in his possession, he gains incredible speed, strength and skills…

Cast: Robert Englund, Ken Kirzinger, Monica Keena, Jason Ritter, Kelly Rowland Studio: New Line Rating: 5/10 Corporate Line: A group of teenagers finds themselves stuck in the middle of a battle between two forces of evil: silent stalker Jason Voorhees (Hodder) and gabby dream master Freddy Krueger (Englund), as the battle wages from Elm Street…

Cast: Mike Vogel, Adam Brody, Joey Kern, Jason London, Vince Vieluf Studio: Warner Bros. Rating: 7.5/10 Corporate Line: Four skaters follow the summer tour of a skateboard star (Jason London) from Chicago to Oceanside, CA, pulling tricks and tearing it up, in their wild attempts to get noticed and grab a major sponsor and a…

Cast: Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, Abraham Benrubi, Robert Duvall, Michael Gambon Studio: Touchstone Rating: 7.5/10 Corporate Line: Following the day-to-day encounters of four cattle herders who roam the countryside without owning a particular piece of land, or “freegrazers” (Costner, Duvall, Luna, Benrubi), living in the final years of the Wild West, this film tells the…

Cast: Brittany Murphy, Dakota Fanning Studio: MGM Rating: 5/10 Corporate Line: Molly Gunn (Murphy) is the freewheeling daughter of a late rock legend and the toast of the Manhattan social scene, but when her inheritance is stolen, Molly is forced to do something she’s never done before – get a job. She becomes nanny to…

Cast: Samuel L Jackson, Colin Farrell, Olivier Martinez, Michelle Rodriguez, LL Cool J Studio: Columbia Rating: 7.5/10 Corporate Line: The tables are turned when the Los Angeles Police Department’s S.W.A.T. (Special Weapons and Tactics) unit must protect a dangerous criminal. A grizzled veteran SWAT officer (Jackson) is given a second chance to cobble together a…

Cast: en Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Justin Bartha, Al Pacino, Christopher Walken Studio: Columbia Rating: 2/10 Corporate Line: This character piece tells the story of Gigli (Affleck), a hit man in Los Angeles eternally looking for the big score. His latest scheme is the kidnapping of the mentally challenged brother (Bartha) of a powerful district attorney.…

Cast: Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges, Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Banks, William H. Macy Studio: Universal Rating: 5.5/10 Corporate Line: This is the true story of a former bicycle repairman, Charles Howard (Bridges), who made his fortune introducing the automobile to the American West, and who owned a small, knobbly-kneed horse called Seabiscuit. Howard teamed up with…

Cast: Angelina Jolie, Gerard Butler, Chris Barrie Studio: Paramount Rating: 3/10 Corporate Line: This time around, archaeologist and explorer extraordinaire Lara Croft journeys to a temple, sunken underwater, that leads to a sphere that contains the mythical Pandora’s Box, only to have it stolen from her by Chen Lo, the leader of a Chinese crime…