2003’s Underworld was a surprisingly entertaining — if completely brainless — action/horror flick that took itself serious enough to keep everything together. It certainly wasn’t original, but it was full of stunts, grand sets, old-school special effects, and Kate Beckinsale in tight leather pants. Made on a $23,000,000 budget, itContinue Reading
Two words can strike fear into the hearts of movie-goers: Uwe Boll. His movies have been panned as some of the worst ever made. Since he specializes in taking video game titles and adapting them to the silver screen, his recent filmography sounds like a shopping list from GameStop: AloneContinue Reading
A lot happens in X-Men: The Last Stand. I cannot fault it for not advancing the story-line of the mutants and their fight for equal treatment. However, I would expect to feel something about the characters after leaving the theater after viewing the movie. I do not. X-Men: The LastContinue Reading
When a movie is hyped as much as The Da Vinci Code, rarely does that movie live up to it all. When the book that the movie is based on is one of the most controversial books of all-time, there’s increased pressure to appease those that have read the book.Continue Reading
In the year 2055, Charles Hatton (Ben Kingsley) has created Time Safari, a company that books expensive time travel hunting trips for rich people enabling them to hunt dinosaurs. Participants in the safari are given explicit instructions not to touch anything or leave any trace of their presence. In doingContinue Reading
With recent movies about Spider-Man, The Hulk, Daredevil, and Man-Thing (among others) already made, the Marvel Universe is running out of characters that haven’t been made into films. The Fantastic Four, one of the original Stan Lee creations of the 1960s, actually had been made into a movie before theContinue Reading
After breaking out in one of the better comic book films in recent memory (1998’s Blade), the Blade movies have degenerated with each entry in the series. Blade II was a mess of CGI-effects-heavy fight scenes and a suspenseless plot. 2004’s Blade: Trinity is completely disconnected from the first twoContinue Reading