Category: Movie Reviews

Cast: Tom Hanks Studio: Castle Rock Rating: 7.5/10 At this time of year, the industry is pushing films so that they make it out by the last day of the last month in hopes that they will be Oscar contenders in their category for the year. The Green Mile need not be so concerned with…

Cast: John Travolta Studio: Paramount Rating: 8/10 Every once in a while, over the course of time, it’s possible to forget why or how a person becomes a big celebrity. You see someone’s name before the title of a new film and think, “He’s in another movie?” Okay, I admit that I was feeling that…

Cast: John Travolta Studio: Paramount Rating: 8/10 Every once in a while, over the course of time, it’s possible to forget why or how a person becomes a big celebrity. You see someone’s name before the title of a new film and think, “He’s in another movie?” Okay, I admit that I was feeling that…

Cast: Kevin Costner Studio: Universal Rating: 3/10 When I think back on all the Kevin Costner films I have seen, it’s hard to remember ever watching one that was less than two hours long. There’s something about his films that makes me wish I were sitting in some other theater, watching something with a little…

Cast: Sandra Bullock Studio: Columbia Rating: 6.5/10 Lovestruck straight-arrow Ben (Ben Affleck) can’t wait to marry Bridget (Maura Tierney), but first he must journey from New York to Savannah for their wedding. Things heat up when his plane crashes and quirky, vibrant Sarah (Sandra Bullock) thanks him for saving her life with an enthusiastic kiss.…

Cast: Dennis Quaid Studio: New Line Rating: 7.5/10 Anything’s possible in the movies, right? Well, that’s the position Frequency takes with its stretch-of-the-imagination plot line and outrageous special effects. Centered around aurora borealis, Frequency toys with the ‘what if?’ notion in one of the most original ways to date. It’s 1999 and John Sullivan (Jim…

Cast: rnold Schwarzenegger Studio: Universal Rating: 1/10 It’s been two years since we last saw Arnold Schwarzenegger tear up the screen in a blockbuster film. After the role of Mr. Freeze in Batman And Robin, he packed it in for a while to undergo surgery and take some time off. Now he’s back with a…

Cast: Will Smith Studio: Buena Vista Rating: 6/10 Enemy Of The State is a movie for the thinking man and woman. Director Jerry Bruckheimer toys with your mind, never letting you in on what’s really going on. The ending is completely unexpected. Robert Clayton Dean, played deftly by Will Smith, is a D.C. labor lawyer…

Cast: Catherine Zeta-jones Studio: Fox Rating: 6/10 What do you get when you put together two beautiful stars (Catherine Zeta-Jones and Sean Connery), exotic locations, and a plot full of action and suspense? A great movie, right? Well, I’m sure that is what 20th Century Fox was hoping for with the movie Entrapment. Either that…

Cast: Julia Roberts Studio: Universal Rating: 8/10 Ever heard of Erin Brockovich? Me neither. But you will, and very soon. Erin Brockovich is a twice-divorced mother of three who, with absolutely no legal training, helped win one of the largest settlements in a direct-action lawsuit in US history. Three hundred and thirty three million dollars,…