Category: Movie Reviews

Cast: Ben Affleck Studio: Paramount Rating: 6/10 An arrogant lawyer and a down-and-out businessman become involved in a minor traffic accident in Manhattan. As a result, the two men accidentally swap briefcases, the contents of which cause a heated battle with legal as well as financial repercussions. It’s Ben Affleck against Samuel L. Jackson. Both…

Cast: Bill Paxton Studio: Lion’s Gate Rating: 7.5/10 The story follows an FBI investigation in present day Texas. Fenton Meiks (Matthew McConaughey), a young man, approaches the lead FBI investigator (Powers Boothe), claiming he knows the identity of a serial killer who calls himself “God’s Hands.” The FBI agent is curious, but unimpressed until Fenton…

Cast: Jesse Bedford Studio: Paramount Rating: 5/10 A scientist invents a mechanism that speeds up any target that it hits to 25 times their normal speed, effectively making it seem to that person like time is standing still. The race is on to find a way to reverse the effects when his son Zak (Jesse…

Cast: Ben Kingsley Studio: Universal Rating: 5/10 First, the boulder rolls down the hill, almost kills our main man and then the film just falls on its face from there. It’s a thug’s life. In a gorgeous villa on a cliff in Spain lays Gary (Ray Winstone) by his pool. He talks, walks and looks…

Cast: Jodie Foster Studio: Columbia Rating: 6.5/10 Trapped in their New York brownstone’s panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) and her young daughter Sarah (Kristen Stewart) play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders – Burnham (Forest Whitaker), Raoul (Dwight…

Cast: Robin Williams Studio: Warner Bros. Rating: 5.5/10 Death To Smoochy tells the comic tale of Rainbow Randolph (Robin Williams), the costumed star of a popular children’s television show who is fired over a bribery scandal and replaced by Smoochy (Edward Norton), a puffy, Barney-esque fuscia rhinoceros. When Randolph discovers Smoochy is having an affair…

Cast: Wesley Snipes Studio: New Line Cinema Rating: 6.5/10 Half Man…half vampire, and consumed by a desire to avenge the curse of his birth and save the human race from a blood-drenched Armageddon. Blade is forced to team up with the very vampires he hates in order to overcome a new type of monster which…

Cast: Barry Watson Studio: Touchstone Rating: 5/10 You saw the commercials for Sorority Boys right? Did you think it looked good at all? Me either, but I’m not the typical consumer, I get into movies for free and have to watch them whether I want to or not and when it came to Sorority Boys…

Cast: Eddie Murphy Studio: Warner Bros. Rating: 5/10 Eddie Murphy has seen his once prodigious career head down the toilet in the ’90’s. He’s tried in vain to bring that career out of the sewer. Well Showtime isn’t going to do that. Even with the great straight man Robert De Niro at his side there…

Cast: Ray Romano Studio: Fox Rating: 7/10 First and foremost Ice Age looks good. The advancements in this film genre haven’t gone overboard just yet. They still tap into the child like qualities that the good cartoons of the past gave us. The story itself isn’t amusing as Shrek or Toy Story, it’s interesting however.…