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Review: GODZILLA (1954)

May 7, 2004 Rich Drees

When first released in the United States in 1957, the Japanese monster film Godzilla found itself trimmed of 40 minutes of footage, with a new twenty minutes added featuring actor Raymond Burr, and much of [click for more]

Review: KILL BILL, VOLUME 2

April 16, 2004 Rich Drees

Director Quentin Tarantino’s peon to 1970s exploitation and grindhouse cinema concludes with the second installment of his Kill Bill saga. Having dispatched with two of her would be killers in the first volume, The Bride [click for more]

Philadelphia Film Festival Review: LAWS OF ATTRACTION

April 13, 2004 Rich Drees

Audrey Woods (Julianne Moore), one of Manhattan’s most successful divorce lawyers, seems to have met her match in Daniel Rafferty (Pierce Brosnan), whose seemingly unorthodox manners and methods yield surprising results. The two verbally spar [click for more]

Philadelphia Film Festival Review: HIGH TENSION

April 10, 2004 Rich Drees

With almost a century of history behind it, the horror movie genre is hard pressed to present a film that offers a new take on the material. At first glance, the 2003 French film High [click for more]

Review: THE GIRL NEXT DOOR

April 10, 2004 Rich Drees

High school senior Matthew (Emile Hirsch) is straight A student with an eye on an Ivy League college and an eventual political career. However, his scholastic focus is distracted with the arrival of his new [click for more]

Review: HELLBOY

April 2, 2004 Rich Drees

For years, the term “comic book movie” has been used in a derogatory manner, as an excuse for flat characters, giant plot holes and overblown action sequences. However, over the last thirty years, comic books [click for more]

Review: JERSEY GIRL

March 27, 2004 Rich Drees

In his five previous films director Kevin Smith has built his own cinematic universe, where characters could reference events or even cross over from one film to another. His latest film, Jersey Girl, finds Smith [click for more]

Review: ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND

March 21, 2004 Rich Drees

Following the ugly breakup with his girlfriend Clementine (Kate Winslet), Joel (Jim Carey) discovers that she has had the entire relationship erased from her memory. Unable to bear the heartbreak himself and distraught that she [click for more]

Review: THE LIBERTINE

March 12, 2004 Rich Drees

John Wilmot, the Second Earl of Rochester (Johnny Depp) is not a likeable man. He moves through late 17th century London as if it his own personal smorgasbord, sampling whatever delights, carnal or otherwise, momentarily [click for more]

Review: THE BIG BOUNCE

January 30, 2004 Rich Drees

When comes the day that someone writes the book When Bad Movies Happen To Good Actors, there will undoubtedly be a chapter devoted to the latest film adaptation of an Elmore Leonard novel, The Big [click for more]