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Review: GHOST RIDER

February 17, 2007 Rich Drees

Comic book movies seem to have the same hierarchy that comic book characters do. There are first-tier characters who are well engrained in the non-comic reading public’s consciousness like Superman or Spider-Man that get the [click for more]

Review: EPIC MOVIE

January 27, 2007 Rich Drees

If a parody movie’s quality could be measured by the accuracy of its production in replicating the films it’s poking at, then Epic Movie is a pretty good movie. However, if one is looking for [click for more]

Review: CATCH AND RELEASE

January 26, 2007 Rich Drees

Not many romantic comedies open with a scene set just after a funeral. But Catch And Release, for better or worse, strives not to be an ordinary romantic comedy. In fact, for most the first [click for more]

Review: ARTHUR AND THE INVISIBLES

January 12, 2007 Rich Drees

Arthur (Freddie Highmore) is a young, 10-year old boy who spends his time living at his grandmother’s country home and dreaming of the fantastic adventures his grandfather supposedly had. One such tale involved his grandfather [click for more]

Review: THE DEAD GIRL

December 31, 2006 Rich Drees

The morning walk that is a woman’s only respite from her domineering mother becomes a life changing when she discovers the dead body of a young woman (Brittney Murphy), beaten and abandoned in a field. [click for more]

Review: CHILDREN OF MEN

December 27, 2006 Rich Drees

A bomb rips through a coffee shop, but the death of more than a dozen people in a London terrorist action isn’t the lead story on the news. What is news is the announcement of [click for more]

Review: THE GOOD GERMAN

December 17, 2006 Rich Drees

Much has been written about Steven Soderbergh’s latest film The Good German and its obvious debt to 1942’s Casablanca, to the point where one could be forgiven if it seems that Soderbergh is the first [click for more]

Review: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION

November 24, 2006 Rich Drees

Christopher Guest has carved himself a specific niche in filmmaking, assembling a cast of actors who basically improv a film off of a basic, skeletal outline. The results have been impressive- Waiting For Guffman (1996), [click for more]

Review: CASINO ROYALE

November 17, 2006 Rich Drees

In the past, the advertising for the soon-to-be-released latest installment in the James Bond series would trumpet loudly, “Bond is back!” But with the release of Casino Royale and the assumption of Daniel Craig into [click for more]

Review: BORAT: CULTURAL LEARNINGS OF AMERICA FOR MAKE BENEFIT GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHSTAN

November 4, 2006 Rich Drees

In the Middle Ages, sometimes the only person in a royal court who could speak the plain, blunt truth was the court jester. Able to couch his criticism in jokes, the jester could say things [click for more]