In the last few years, I have become an avid Star Trek fan. Star Trek originally ran for three seasons and eighty episodes, each of which I’ve seen at least twice. It is perhaps unfair to compare my personal Star…
Directed by Rodrigo Garcia (Nine Lives) and written by Ronnie Christensen, Passengers is a mystery-cum-romance film. The plot is constructed in such a way that all the different plot points come together at the end, for a revelation that resets…
Often times, the most beloved films, generate the most dreadful sequels. As I said in my review of Escape to Witch Mountain, I was a huge fan of that film, having viewed it numerous times on television. However, it’s sequel,…
Cheech & Chong may not have invented “stoner” comedy but they sure perfected it. With the exception of their 1985 album, Get out of my Room, I’ve never been a huge fan of their drug based humor. But for their…
M. Night Shyamalan burst on the international film scene with 1999’s The Sixth Sense, which was nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. He followed that success by writing and directing Unbreakable, released in 2000….
Debuting in 2001, Shrek was a CG animated feature loosely based off the children’s book of the same name by William Steig. Telling the story of a hermitic swamp-dwelling ogre whose territory is overrun by displaced faerie tale creatures, the…
Directed by Marc Schoelermann and written by Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor, creators of Crank (a 2006 film that has developed a bit of a cult following), Pathology received mixed reviews and a tepid box office response upon its release…
Deception has been used as a film title several times, so perhaps the name of this 2008 offering should have tipped me off to its unoriginal story. However with the star power of Hugh Jackman and Ewan McGregor, I figured…
I should preface this review by saying that my initial interest in Transformers grew from the films role in the HD vs. Blu-ray format war. When Paramount released the high-definition version of Transformers exclusively on HD DVD back in 2007,…