Film Reviews

Review: BAD SANTA

November 26, 2003 Rich Drees

If the title and the film’s R rating aren’t enough to clue you in, let me drive it home for you. Bad Santa is not in any way, shape or form a movie for kids. [click for more]

Review: LOONEY TUNES: BACK IN ACTION

November 15, 2003 Rich Drees

Without a doubt, the cartoons manufactured by the Warner Brothers studios through the 1930s to the `50s were the best produced anywhere. Characters like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd, to name a few, [click for more]

Review: BROTHER BEAR

November 8, 2003 John Gibbon

As a boy, it can be hard growing up in a world that includes older brothers. What makes it harder is being forced to find a place of worth in that world. So Disney tries [click for more]

Review: LOVE ACTUALLY

November 6, 2003 Rich Drees

In the weeks before Christmas, love may be in the air of London, but some people are having trouble connecting. Newlywed Juliet (Keira Knightley) can’t understand why her husband’s best friend (Andrew Lincoln) is acting [click for more]

Review: ELEPHANT

October 26, 2003 Rich Drees

In Elephant, director Gus Van Zant takes us through a normal, almost banal day at a suburban Oregon high school whose student body is as varied as any high school in the country. There are [click for more]

Review: INTOLERABLE CRUELTY

October 12, 2003 Rich Drees

Miles Massey (George Clooney) has it all. As a divorce lawyer, his Massey Pre-nuptial Agreement is considered the most ironclad in the business. He is so successful he has a tab at the local Mercedes [click for more]

Review: KILL BILL, VOLUME 1

October 11, 2003 Rich Drees

Director Quentin Tarantino has never hid his love for 1970s exploitation genre films. His occasional film festivals held in Austin, Texas in conjunction with the Austin Film Society have often featured forgotten and nearly-forgotten grindhouse [click for more]