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Review: HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX

July 12, 2007 Rich Drees

Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix is the fifth installment of the book to film series of a planned eight part story. As such, it is understandable that in the overall scheme of [click for more]

Review: TRANSFORMERS

July 3, 2007 Rich Drees

Transformers is a pure summer popcorn movie- high concept, high octane and highly disposable. For the uninitiated, i.e., those who somehow remained unaware of the popular 1980s cartoon series, its numerous spin-offs, toys and comics, [click for more]

Review: LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD

June 28, 2007 Rich Drees

In the twelve years since Bruce Willis’ everyman cop John McClane last foiled a villain’s grandiose scheme on our cinema screens, the notion of terrorism in the real and cinematic world has changed. In Live [click for more]

Review: FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER

June 16, 2007 Rich Drees

To call the comic book adaptation sequel Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer a better film than its predecessor, would be damning it with the faintest of praise. The film manages to capitalize and [click for more]

Review: HOSTEL: PART II

June 9, 2007 Rich Drees

A young woman hangs upside down, naked and gagged, above an ornately tiled tub surrounded by candles. An older woman enters, disrobes and lies down in the tub. Reaching beside her, the older woman brings [click for more]

Review: KNOCKED UP

June 2, 2007 Rich Drees

The two hardest reviews for me to write always seem to be for comedies and really good films. I think the reason for this is because for both types of films to work effectively, they [click for more]

Review: SPIDER-MAN 3

May 4, 2007 Rich Drees

Fans of comic book movies have good reason to be fearful of any silver screen superhero adaptation reaching a third installment given the history of what has appeared before. Superman III (1983) took a bad [click for more]

Review: HOT FUZZ

April 21, 2007 Rich Drees

In 2004 writer/ director Edgar Wright and writer/actor Simon Pegg delightfully surprised audiences with Shaun Of The Dead. What made Shaun of the Dead work so well is that the story was a romantic comedy [click for more]

Review: FRACTURE

April 21, 2007 Rich Drees

“Look closely enough and you’ll find everything has a weak spot where, sooner or later, it will break.” So says Ted Crawford (Anthony Hopkins), a brilliant aeronautics engineer who has been jailed for the attempted [click for more]

Philadelphia Film Festival Review: IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON

April 16, 2007 Rich Drees

On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy challenged the nation to put a man on the moon. While he never lived to see that dream realized, a small handful of Americans lived it in [click for more]