I keep telling myself that Patrick Swayze was able to crawl from his bed to the beach, still in his hospital blanket as pouring rain beat him down. Assuming he was crazy, the doctors and family gave a call to Mr. Swayze’s old pal Keanu Reeves who ventured over to the beach and tossed down [...]

Next to Public Enemies, John Woo’s Red Cliff was (and still is) my most anticipated film of this year. The fact that it became the highest-grossing Chinese picture and the accolades being left on it aren’t helping me wait for this thing. Nor is the fact this poster has now hit stateside, and it looks [...]

How does one begin to approach a film they wanted to like? Before viewing 9, the film had a lot of things in its favor, the first being absolutely stunning visuals. That looked to be aided by a strong, possibly original premise about a stitchpunk (my gamer side tells me to stick to “Sackboy”) being [...]

It’s tough to really say Extract is a comedy. Sure, it’s being marketed as one and masquerades as one, but the film never hits the notes it wants to. Certainly there are laughs, few and far between though they may be, but none ever really rise much higher than a chuckle. Writer, director, and animation [...]

Vampire movies, thanks to a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad film that shall remain nameless, look like they’re here to stay for a while. Yeah, true, they might’ve always been with us but the craze is on another upturn which means up-and-coming filmmakers who have a vampire in their script will likely see it produced. [...]

“Hans Landa would have loved this movie.” -Scott Marks For those wondering, Mr. Marks is a pretty good friend of mine who often shares a radically different opinion than my own. Generally, I’ll come out singing the praises of Watchmen whereas he’ll yell at me for being wrong and rip the film to shreds. I [...]

With the summer movie season of 2009 drawing to a close, it’s time to look back at the ten films that made us laugh, cry, howl and above all entertain us. Now bear in mind while films like The Hurt Locker and Moon saw release over this summer, they won’t be included here as this [...]

My thoughts after seeing the Inception trailer with some Basterds (going for a third time today) this weekend were pretty mute. The images were nice and gave off a sort of Matrix feel to the project. However, that’s not why I felt mute to it as I still love the first Matrix. My problem with [...]