The Duchess
At its simplest, it’s a gorgeous film with beautiful period costumes and intricate set designs. However, something tells me that’s not the level director Saul Dibb wanted to achieve greatest on.
Category: Reviews
The Truman Show
The issues it tackles are just as relevant now (if not more so) than they were when the film was first released theatrically back in 1997.
Ghost Town
A delightful comedy with an edge of romance that is taken down a notch from its utterly drippy ending.
Eagle Eye
Attempting to tap into the public’s collective fears and suspicions comes D.J. Caruso’s preposterous Eagle Eye, an action film with plenty of thrills but I have no idea what alternate reality it’s set in.
American Teen
American Teen presents itself as getting inside the lives of America’s current youth culture. But the very idea of individuality is lost because it doesn’t go deep enough into the lives of its subjects to fully convey the idea.
Event Horizon
Paul W.S. Anderson’s outer space horror Event Horizon is an example of a potentially great and complex idea given a simplistic and ultimately ridiculous execution.
Films: D · Racing Movies · Reviews: D
Days of Thunder
When it’s on the racetrack, it’s thrills abound as the big sound and fast-moving cars make for sensory overload. However, when the action fades and it’s time to give the characters some meat.
Basketball Movies · Films: C · Reviews: C
Coach Carter
While the film is over the top at times, Coach Carter has a big heart that doesn’t shy away from challenging the American education system.
Horton Hears a Who
Horton started as a book, less that 40 pages long. To make it a feature seems just a little bit wrong. The magic of Seuss isn’t quite there. It’s got the look but it’s missing some flair.
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Made at the time as a plead for international peace, its message should still ring true today where the world picture is more complex and, in many ways, more splintered and dangerous.
