Category: Movie Reviews

Cast: George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, Catherine Zeta-Jones Studio: Warner Bros. Rating: 5/10 Ocean’s Eleven is a loose remake of a film made way back when the Rat Pack was where it was at. That version had a fantastic ensemble of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and more. The film…

Cast: Robert Redford Studio: Universal Rating: 5/10 Spy Game is about both spying and playing games. It’s a game of distrust, trust, and more distrust. Here we find veteran CIA officer Nathan Muir, played by Robert Redford, on his way out the door and into a life of retirement, but of course it won’t be…

Cast: Jack Black Studio: Fox Rating: 5/10 Have the Farrelly Brothers gone soft? Not really, but Shallow Hal is a comedy with a heart. Shallow Hal isn’t There’s Something About Mary. Jack Black isn’t Ben Stiller. Gwyneth Paltrow isn’t Cameron Diaz. I just wanted to get that out of the way from the start. Black…

Cast: Kevin Kline Studio: New Line Rating: 5.5/10 I had the unfortunate luck of watching Life As A House. That sounds harsh, but I have my reasons. First, there was so much hype going in that I had to talk myself down throughout the film and the expectations, and second, I had to sit through…

Cast: Billy Crystal Studio: Walt Disney Rating: 8.5/10 Monsters, Inc. could be about the boogeyman children fear as they close their eyes or the little bed bugs that nip at their toes while they dream of better things. Somewhere in between is really where Monsters, Inc. falls as Mike Wazowski (voiced by Billy Crystal), a…

Cast: Jet Li Studio: Columbia Rating: 5/10 Jet Li has been an icon overseas, but it seems that in America Li has become a fall guy for the new martial arts. Naturalists will boo The One for its effects that have taken martial arts the way Bruce Lee presented to a film that looks to…

Cast: Chris Kattan Studio: Touchstone Rating: 3/10 I’m going to cut straight to the story on this one because, frankly, it doesn’t deserve much more than that. Corky Romano (Chris Kattan) is a happy-go-lucky, ’80’s-obsessed veterinarian with ADD, or at least it seems that way. He’s asked by his Italian mobster brother to go undercover…

Cast: Yu Rong Guang Studio: Miramax Rating: 8/10 I have to admit, this movie wasn’t too bad the twentieth time around. I’ve owned this movie for about three years on video. I guess with all the hype and hoopla surrounding Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon some genius realized that despite years and years of underground martial…

Cast: Paul Walker Studio: Fox Rating: 8/10 Well, well, well. It seems that young Paul Walker has done what many thought to be impossible: he’s actually gone out and made a good movie. Paul has starred in many of what have been considered the worst movies. The Skulls, anyone? Varsity Blues? Don’t let the hokey…

Cast: Anthony Hopkins Studio: Castle Rock Rating: 7/10 For a movie that starts off with a wistful voice-over saying, “It was the last summer of my childhood” (or something to that effect), Hearts In Atlantis isn’t half-bad. Based on a Stephen King novel of the same name, Hearts stars Anthony Hopkins as a mysterious old…