The Island Bombastic Michael Bay'S New Baby Is Just A Clone Of Movies Past Over the years, director Michael Bay has become synonymous with loud, mind-numbing and narratively pointless summer action films (Bad Boys, The Rock, Armageddon, [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jul 21, 2005 Read More “To hell with Ghost World . I want some money . Give it to me now!”
Wedding Crashers Like A Victoria'S Secret Gift Certificate, Wilson And Vaughn'S New Comedy Is Both Trashy And Romantic What would happen if you took a sophisticated Jane Austin comedy, made the main characters male, moved it from upscale Regency England to [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jul 14, 2005 Read More “Luke thinks he’s all high and mighty
March Of The Penguins Avian Documentary Gives Audiences A Warm Feeling About An Ice-Cold Climate When it comes to making documentaries, you can never go wrong focussing your lens on either kids or animals. They're both gold. The [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jul 14, 2005 Read More “Hey
Videonasty Danger: Diabolik DVD Release Schedule [sub]July 5[/sub] “Fantastic Four” The Complete Animated Series (Buena Vista) Hide and Seek (Fox) Point Blank (Warner) [sub]July 12[/sub] The [...] Kurly Tlapoyawa \ Jul 07, 2005 Read More
George A. Romero'S Land Of The Dead The Living Dead Are Back In Town And Ready To Chow Down These days, there are two camps of horror movie fans: those who speak in reverent tones about past masters of the genre like [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jun 30, 2005 Read More George A. Romero’s Apocalypse Now
War Of The Worlds E.t. Goes Bad In Spielberg'S Scary New Space Flick After introducing the world to the ugly-cute aliens of Close Encounters and E.T., director Steven Spielberg vowed never to create a film with [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jun 30, 2005 Read More ‘I’m gonna shoot me some aliens.”
Howl'S Moving Castle Animation Masterpiece Creates A World All Its Own Filmmaker/artist Hayao Miyazaki has often been called “the Walt Disney of Japan.” While that title is meant to reflect the creativity and popularity [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jun 23, 2005 Read More Scarecrows and dogs and kids
Batman Begins Batman Franchise Hits The Restart Button And Crafts A Heroic Hit Do me (and yourself, for that matter) a favor. Put those last couple Batman movies out of your mind. Forget that Warner Brothers [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jun 16, 2005 Read More Batman: The Grizzly Adams Years
Videonasty Happiness (1998) Upcoming DVD releases June 7 The Stink of Flesh (Tempe Home Video) Nightmare Alley (Fox Film Noir) Seed of Chucky (Universal) Tokyo Pig [...] Kurly Tlapoyawa \ Jun 09, 2005 Read More
The Adventures Of Shark Boy And Lava Girl In 3-D Dreamy Dream Film Dreams A Dream About Dreamy Dreamers And The Dreams They Dream Of I've gotta give filmmaker Robert Rodriguez (El Mariachi, From Dusk Till Dawn, Once Upon a Time in Mexico) credit for a lot of [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jun 09, 2005 Read More “My god. ... It’s like an iMac puked on the movie screen.”