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Review: GARFIELD: THE MOVIE

June 13, 2004 John Gibbon

I was feeling all choked up inside after watching Garfield: The Movie, until the bothersome hairball finally dislodged. One would think that with 25 years of Garfield, the rotund feline smart-aleck of the Jim Davis [click for more]

Review: THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK

June 11, 2004 Rich Drees

When we first met Riddick (Vin Diesel), the stone cold anti-hero of the eponymously named The Chronicles Of Riddick, he was part of a group of space travelers trying to escape from the hostile natives [click for more]

Review: HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN

June 4, 2004 Rich Drees

A good story is a good story no matter what medium it is told in. As probably one of the last people in the English-speaking world who has not read any of the successful Harry [click for more]

Review: THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW

May 29, 2004 Rich Drees

One has to wonder what director Roland Emmerich has against Manhattan. In Independence Day (1996) he pulverized the city with lasers from an invading alien armada. In Godzilla (1998) he demolished a significant portion of [click for more]

Review: VAN HELSING

May 7, 2004 Rich Drees

Like the swallows returning to Capistrano herald the return of spring, the arrival of summer can only mean that our local cineplexs will soon be swamped with a multitude of high concept action blockbusters. While [click for more]

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: 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]