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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]

Review: THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT

January 24, 2004 Rich Drees

According to the adherents to the mathematical discipline known as Chaos Theory, something as small as the flapping of a butterfly’s wings in one part of the world can set into motion an unpredictable chain [click for more]

Review: ALONG CAME POLLY

January 16, 2004 John Gibbon

Romantic comedies have become a calculated risk for Hollywood. A good risk is the pleasantly surprising Kate and Leopold (2001) and a bad risk is the disappointingly flat Alex and Emma (2003). Good thing there’s [click for more]

Review: BIG FISH

December 26, 2003 Rich Drees

At the beginning of Big Fish, we are told by Will Bloom (Billy Crudup) that when it comes to “Telling the story of my father’s life, it is impossible to separate fact from fiction, the [click for more]

Review: CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN

December 26, 2003 Rich Drees

Tom (Steve Martin) and Kate Baker (Bonnie Hunt) always wanted a large family, but they weren’t quite prepared when they eventually had twelve children. Working together as a tag team, they manage to keep the [click for more]

Review: THE FOG OF WAR

December 21, 2003 Rich Drees

During the turbulent 1960s, no figure was perhaps more controversial than former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. A polarizing figure, hailed as a genius by some while regarded by others as a con man or [click for more]

Review: CALENDAR GIRLS

December 20, 2003 Rich Drees

Chris (Helen Mirren) and Annie (Julie Walters) are old friends who have become increasingly bored with the monthly meeting of their women’s group and its unending stream of stultifying speakers on such topics as the [click for more]

Review: THE HEBREW HAMMER

December 19, 2003 Rich Drees

Got a problem that needs solving before Friday sundown? Than you need Mordechai Jefferson Carver, the Hebrew Hammer. The Hebrew Hammer is a wickedly funny parody of 70s blaxploitation films, only substituting a Jewish hero [click for more]

Review: THE LAST SAMURAI

December 6, 2003 Rich Drees

The conflict between technological advancement and the retention of a more traditional way of doing something is as old as technological advancement itself and as new as the music industry’s conflict with internet file sharing [click for more]

Review: HAUNTED MANSION

November 27, 2003 Rich Drees

On one of comedian Eddie Murphy’s old albums he does a bit about how black people would never stick around a haunted house the way the white couple did in the horror classic The Amityville [click for more]