The Coen Brothers have never failed to make a film that didn’t either royally entertain me or make me scratch my head and wonder, “What was that all about?” O, Brother Where Art Thou? is royally entertaining. I’m still scratching my head as to why it took me so long to seeContinue Reading
Have you ever seen an overweight, underachieving guy with a thin, beautiful woman on his arm and wondered, “What’s she doing with him?” The Tao of Steve might just answer that question for you. It also might make you question your first impressions of both the man and the womanContinue Reading
I’ve bemoaned the 1990s teen horror movie revival in my reviews of such “classics” as I Know What You Did Last Summer and Urban Legend. Scream, the film that started the revival, was was an inventive and funny movie that also managed to scare audiences at the same time. ForContinue Reading
Three hours before Roland (Taye Diggs) is scheduled to be married, he disappears. His best friends Mike (Omar Epps) and Slim (Richard T. Jones) find him drunk at his first girlfriend’s house. In their efforts to talk Roland into sobering up and going back to the wedding, the friends beginContinue Reading
In the middle of a summer night, a large meteor slams into the Arizona desert. When Dr. Ira Kane (David Duchovny) and Dr. Harold Block (Orlando Jones) from the local community college investigate the crash site, they find the meteor is oozing a substance that contains one-celled organisms. After beingContinue Reading
A priest walks into a bar…and, wait, stop me if you’ve heard this one. Ok, that’s a pretty bad way to start this review, but it’s how Keeping the Faith starts. In the film, a young Irish priest, named Brian Finn (Edward Norton), walks into his local bar — drunk out ofContinue Reading
The original Scream ushered in a new era for teen slasher films, in which the on-screen participants were clued in to the many clichés of the genre. By the time the first sequel was released, a plethora of copycat movies that used the same formula to varying degrees of successContinue Reading