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Review: THE HEBREW HAMMER

December 19, 2003 Rich Drees

Got a problem that needs solving before Friday sundown? Than you need Mordechai Jefferson Carver, the Hebrew Hammer. The Hebrew Hammer is a wickedly funny parody of 70s blaxploitation films, only substituting a Jewish hero [click for more]

Review: THE LAST SAMURAI

December 6, 2003 Rich Drees

The conflict between technological advancement and the retention of a more traditional way of doing something is as old as technological advancement itself and as new as the music industry’s conflict with internet file sharing [click for more]

Review: HAUNTED MANSION

November 27, 2003 Rich Drees

On one of comedian Eddie Murphy’s old albums he does a bit about how black people would never stick around a haunted house the way the white couple did in the horror classic The Amityville [click for more]

Review: BAD SANTA

November 26, 2003 Rich Drees

If the title and the film’s R rating aren’t enough to clue you in, let me drive it home for you. Bad Santa is not in any way, shape or form a movie for kids. [click for more]

Review: LOONEY TUNES: BACK IN ACTION

November 15, 2003 Rich Drees

Without a doubt, the cartoons manufactured by the Warner Brothers studios through the 1930s to the `50s were the best produced anywhere. Characters like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd, to name a few, [click for more]

Review: LOVE ACTUALLY

November 6, 2003 Rich Drees

In the weeks before Christmas, love may be in the air of London, but some people are having trouble connecting. Newlywed Juliet (Keira Knightley) can’t understand why her husband’s best friend (Andrew Lincoln) is acting [click for more]

Review: ELEPHANT

October 26, 2003 Rich Drees

In Elephant, director Gus Van Zant takes us through a normal, almost banal day at a suburban Oregon high school whose student body is as varied as any high school in the country. There are [click for more]

Review: INTOLERABLE CRUELTY

October 12, 2003 Rich Drees

Miles Massey (George Clooney) has it all. As a divorce lawyer, his Massey Pre-nuptial Agreement is considered the most ironclad in the business. He is so successful he has a tab at the local Mercedes [click for more]

Review: KILL BILL, VOLUME 1

October 11, 2003 Rich Drees

Director Quentin Tarantino has never hid his love for 1970s exploitation genre films. His occasional film festivals held in Austin, Texas in conjunction with the Austin Film Society have often featured forgotten and nearly-forgotten grindhouse [click for more]

Review: LOST IN TRANSLATION

October 4, 2003 Rich Drees

Bob Harris (Bill Murray) is a stranger in a strange land. A movie actor whose career has seen better days, he finds himself in Tokyo working as a pitchman for a Japanese brand of whiskey. [click for more]