Category: Movie Reviews

  • The Matrix Reloaded

    Cast: Keanu Reeves Studio: New Line Rating: 8/10 Corporate Line: Neo, Morpheus, Trinity, and the rest of their crew continue to battle the machines that have enslaved the human race in the Matrix. Now, more humans are waking up out of the matrix and attempting to live in the real world. As their numbers grow,…

  • Daddy Day Care

    Cast: Eddie Murphy Studio: Columbia Rating: 6/10 Corporate Line: When a father (Murphy) loses his lucrative “dotcom” job, and finds himself in jeopardy of financial ruin, he joins his friends (Zahn, Garlin) in opening a free-spirited “guy-run” business called “Daddy Day Care” (in his house), much to the chagrin of the owner (Huston) of a…

  • X-Men: X2

    Cast: Hugh Jackman Studio: Fox Rating: 8/10 Corporate Line: The X-Men have opponents new and old to face this time around. Magneto is back, but there is also a threat to Professor Xavier’s school for mutants led by a human named Stryker, not to mention a vicious woman named Yuriko who has it in for…

  • United 93

    Cast: David Alan Bashe, Richard Bekins, Cheyenne Jackson Studio: Universal Rating: 6.5/10 CORPORATE LINE: Acclaimed filmmaker Paul Greengrass (Bloody Sunday, The Bourne Supremacy) writes and directs an unflinching drama that tells the story of the passengers and crew, their families on the ground and the flight controllers who watched in dawning horror as United Airlines…

  • Bulletproof Monk

    Cast: Chow Yun-Fat Studio: MGM Rating: 6.5/10 Corporate Line: For 60 years, a mysterious monk with no name (Chow Yun-Fat) has traversed the globe to protect an ancient scroll – a scroll that holds the key to unlimited power. Now the Monk must look for a new scrollkeeper. Kar (Seann William Scott) is an unlikely…

  • Anger Management

    Cast: adam sandler Studio: sony Rating: 6.5/10 Corporate Line: A mild-mannered businessman (Sandler) is wrongly accused of a crime and sentenced to an anger management program, where he discovers that his instructor (Nicholson) is a crazy psycho with his own serious anger management problem, and is probably the one man in the world most capable…

  • Basic

    Cast: John Travolta Studio: Columbia Rating: 4.5/10 Corporate Line: Agent Hardy (Travolta) of the DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) is brought in by an old friend to investigate the disappearances of several Army Ranger cadets and their legendary drill instructor, West (Samuel L. Jackson), during an exercise at a basic training camp, Fort Clayton, in Panama.…

  • The Core

    Cast: Hilary Swank Studio: aramount Rating: 4/10 Corporate Line: Geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes (Eckhart) discovers that an unknown force has caused the Earth’s inner core to stop rotating. With the planet’s magnetic field rapidly deteriorating, our atmosphere literally starts to come apart at the seams with catastrophic consequences. To resolve the crisis, Keyes, along with…

  • Head Of State

    Cast: Chris Rock Studio: Dreamworks Rating: 6/10 Corporate Line: When a presidential candidate dies unexpectedly in the middle of the campaign, the Democratic party picks an unlikely candidate, Washington, D.C. alderman Mays Gilliam (Rock), as his replacement. The Good: Chris Rock and Bernie Mac are hilarious individually; together they are still pretty damn funny. In…

  • Willard

    Cast: Crispin Glover Studio: New Line Rating: 4/10 Corporate Line: A social misfit, Willard (Crispin Glover) is constantly humiliated in front of his co-workers and squeezed out of the family business by his boss (R. Lee Ermey). But then he makes an eerie discovery: he seems to share a powerful bond with the rats that…