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Warriors of Heaven and Earth film review

This film, Warriors of Heaven and Earth (Tian di ying xiong) is heavy with swordplay throughout. It revolves around a caravan during China’s Tang Dynasty, in the western territories, that is carrying a sacred bone of the Buddha. The caravan, however, is just the setting, as the film follows several characters, each with different motives, ….

What the #$*! Do We Know? film review

What the #$*! Do We Know? is one of the hottest independently released films of the summer, as well as one of a handful of high grossing documentaries released in the past couple of years. Playing in a few specialty houses since summer it has – thus far – racked up an impressive $5 million. ….

What’s Up, Tiger Lily? film review

It’s too much to expect that people stay funny throughout their entire careers, but given the dearth of real humor in any of Woody Allen’s recent offerings, it’s almost depressing to watch a little gem like 1966’s What’s Up, Tiger Lily? and remember just how effortlessly goofy the guy could be. In this, his first ….

Wolf Creek film review

Wolf Creek makes you wonder why people put themselves in the role of ‘hiking tourist’ at all. I mean, you have spend all this money to visit someplace where the locals might not be so friendly, you might get sick from the food, you can’t watch the game in HD, you may be sleeping in ….

Woman Thou Art Loosed film review

It can be extremely difficult to deal with such heavy issues as incest, ignored abuse, and redemption without allowing the topics to take over in lieu of connecting with the characters involved. And nobody wants to take issue with films about women climbing out of victimization because we all hate to see the wimp who ….

The World Is Not Enough film review

I’ll preface this review with the disclaimer that I am indeed aware that James Bond thrillers do not bear any semblance to real-life scenarios. I’ll also say that since I was a kid I’ve been a huge Bond fan. And I’ll also say that The World Is Not Enough is one of the worst Bond ….

The Wrong Man film review

Hitchcock famously hated the police – thanks to an experience as a youth in which his father had him locked up at the local jail – and more than any other film The Wrong Man exudes that sentiment. Based on the 1953 case of Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero, The Wrong Man is a true story (the ….

28 Days Later film review

What is the best way to describe 28 DAYS LATER? Well if you take the Armageddon-like feeling of Planet of the Apes (the original), mix it with the shaky camera shooting style of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, and add in a little B-Rated late 70’s horror flick seasoning, that’s what this movie is. I liked ….

42 Up film review

It gets longer every seven years! Now clocking in at a monstrous 2 hours, 19 minutes, the sixth installment of Michael Apted’s ambitious but uniformly unenlightening 7 Up series drags us down a familiar road, kicking and screaming all the way. Yet again, Apted shows us how the baker’s dozen of Brit-kids he first profiled ….

Fear Itself: Episode One Review

I just finished watching the premiere of Fear Itself on NBC. The television series is broken down into 13 separate 60 minute films fleshed out by today’s premiere horror writers and directors. Mick Garris, who brought us Masters of Horror on Shotime, and Masters of Science Fiction on ABC, created this one too. Of the ….

A noble effort for Macbeth director

Geoffrey Wright, (director of Romper Stomper and Cherry Falls) must have had a great time bringing his newest effort to the screen. Macbeth is a sexy and stylish, contemporary retelling of one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays. While I felt it somewhat confined to it’s inspiration’s dialogue and even storyline, it was a visually stunning ….

Lila Says film review

Director Ziad Doueiri’s Lila Says is a portrait of how sexual and racial tension, coupled with young passion and innocent curiosity can create a very volatile mix. Lila starts out as the title character has just moved into a predominantly Arab neighborhood in France. She encounters 19 year old Chimo as he is hanging out ….