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Review: AMERICAN SPLENDOR

September 12, 2003 Rich Drees

“Write what you know.” It’s familiar advice that’s dished out high school composition courses everywhere. It’s something that Harvey Pekar has embraced, turning his life as a file clerk in Cleveland into the basis of [click for more]

Review: JOHNNY ENGLISH

July 19, 2003 Rich Drees

In these days of cross marketing, it is not unusual to see film characters appear in commercials for products that are inevitably placed in their features. But in an interesting reversal of that trend, Johnny [click for more]

Review: THE ANIMATION SHOW

July 18, 2003 Rich Drees

The end of the golden age of cinema due to the rise in the popularity of television brought about many changes in cinema, most notably to the field of animation. As distribution and presentation formats [click for more]

Review: HULK

June 21, 2003 Rich Drees

Comic book adaptations have never been considered art. A majority of them have been rather bad, where filmmakers seem to think that the phrase “comic book” is a cover-all excuse to throw story logic and [click for more]

Review: X2: X-MEN UNITED

May 22, 2003 Rich Drees

Sequels are tricky things. They must deliver the same thrills that thrilled movie audiences the first time around while still serving up new twists and surprises that won’t alienate fans. Unfortunately, most sequels don’t live [click for more]

Review: A MIGHTY WIND

May 9, 2003 Rich Drees

In a cinema landscape overrun with in your face comedies like Adam Sandler’s Anger Management, the latest mockumentary from Christopher Guest, A Mighty Wind, is, if you’ll excuse the obvious metaphor here, a breath of [click for more]

Review: IDENTITY

April 26, 2003 Rich Drees

It’s a common enough formula for a suspense movie. Isolate a group of characters that are strangers to each other in a desolate location and then start killing them off. As the body count and [click for more]

Review: BULLETPROOF MONK

April 16, 2003 Rich Drees

Raymond Chandler had an axiom when he was writing his hard-boiled detective novels- “When in doubt, have a man with a gun come through the door.” This must be the only writing advice ever given [click for more]

Philadelphia Film Fest Review: THE MAGDALENE SISTERS

April 14, 2003 Rich Drees

The Magdalene Sisters is a film that should and very likely will infuriate its audiences. Some will be outraged at what they may perceive as an attack on Catholic Church authority. Others will be aghast [click for more]

Review: THE CORE

March 29, 2003 Rich Drees

Journeys to the center of the Earth have been a staple of fantasy literature since Dante visited the Inferno and Alice tumbled down the rabbit hole. Unfortunately modern science has replaced the imaginative worlds of [click for more]