Guys, Girls and a Jerk
A big step in the right direction and a rare instance where a sequel outshines its predecessor.
Category: Reviews: F-J
Fire Maidens of Outer Space
Old sci-fi can be great and insightful into its time period when it’s good. But if you’re going to be bad, sci-fi is the worst genre to be in. Fire Maidens of Outer Space is as bad as anything you can imagine.
Harold and Maude
A treasure that’s as applicable today as it was more than three decades ago.
Hulk
Don’t let the previews fool you. Hulk isn’t your typical comic book movie. It’s not a disposable blockbuster either. These are both good things.
The Italian Job
A competent enough feature with cool cars and a bass-heavy soundtrack but with its simplistic characters and mediocre plot, customized wheels and techno riffs just aren’t enough.
Finding Nemo
[Once again Pixar] ensures that the label ‘family film’ isn’t ‘a movie only your tots will enjoy’ but something that actually is for everyone.
Identity
In the end, it all comes to mood. The story, the setting, the characters, the twists – none would work if it weren’t for the feel of Identity.
Holes
Holes amounts to a look that is hot and leaves you grabbing for the Coke in the cup holder, wiping your brow and pondering a way to check your armpits without the person sitting next to you noticing.
Ghosts of the Abyss
Ghosts of the Abyss is all about the spectacle of a six-story screen and the sensory bombardment of a rope flying at you or bubbles heading for the surface right in front of your nose.
Films: G · Films: H · Reviews: H
Hart’s War
Starts out strongly before quickly losing its focus, point and purpose in a mess of mixed messages, over-blown drama and Bruce Willis with a scar.
