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Review: SPEED RACER

May 9, 2008 Rich Drees

Whether or not Speed Racer will work as a movie or not will probably depend on whether depend on whether the viewer is willing to give themselves over to the fantastic world that directors Larry [click for more]

Review: IRON MAN

May 2, 2008 Rich Drees

There will be some reviewer who will feel the need to be apologetic for liking Iron Man, as if something as disposable as a summer action film can actually have good writing and acting as [click for more]

Review: THEN SHE FOUND ME

May 2, 2008 Rich Drees

Whenever elementary school teacher April Epner (Helen Hunt) is asked the question “So, do you have children of your own?,” she takes a pause before answering. And in that pause, we learn much about her [click for more]

Review: HAROLD AND KUMAR ESCAPE FROM GUANTANAMO BAY

April 24, 2008 Rich Drees

Most sequels to successful comedies do nothing more than ape the original’s structure and jokes, too afraid that audiences won’t stand for any deviation from what they liked about the first film. As can be [click for more]

PFF Review: ALEXANDRA

April 23, 2008 Michael McGonigle

In the comedy Love And Death, Woody Allen finds himself conscripted into the Russian Army about to fight Napoleon’s invading French forces. While in basic training, a stern drill sergeant tries to explain the reality [click for more]

PFF Review: BAGHEAD

April 23, 2008 Rich Drees

The two favorite subjects of ultra low budget filmmakers seems to be the relationship drama and the slasher film, both due to the low cost involved in producing either. All the relationship piece needs is [click for more]

PFF Review: THE FORBIDDEN KINGDOM

April 15, 2008 Rich Drees

It seems almost inconceivable that fans of Hong Kong action cinema have had to wait nearly two decades for its biggest stars, Jackie Chan and Jet Li, to appear on screen together. It is just [click for more]

PFF Review: STRANDED – I’VE JUST COME FROM A PLANE THAT CRASHED IN THE MOUNTAINS

April 14, 2008 Michael McGonigle

So many times, when film footage is recreated for a documentary, it has none of the power that actual film footage has. And the recreated footage usually does not have the dramatic power normally associated [click for more]

PFF Review: STORM

April 14, 2008 Rich Drees

The Wachowski Brother’s Matrix trilogy has many cinematic sins to atone for. The Swedish movie Storm is one of those sins. Donny (Eric Ericson) is a writer who suddenly finds himself caught up in events [click for more]

PFF Review: MONGUL

April 8, 2008 Rich Drees

The first in a proposed trilogy of films charting the life of the warlord Genghis Khan, Sergei Bodrov’s film Mongol feels like an echo of the great historical epics from Hollywood’s Golden Age. Mongol strips [click for more]