RED EYE
“Red Eye” is a huge disappointment because Wes Craven is a highly skilled director who took a paycheck to make…
Film Reviews
THE SKELETON KEY
This chilling suspense thriller turns on courtly notes of discord between the talented Kate Hudson as Caroline, a New Orleans…
BROKEN FLOWERS — CANNES 2005
“Broken Flowers” is another chapter in Jim Jarmusch’s moderately impressive assortment of original minimalist cinema that makes the minimalist films…
THE DUKES OF HAZZARD
This confrontational urban animosity against the image, and consequently Bo and Luke, is allowed to reach a fever pitch when…
MUST LOVE DOGS
Dermot Mulroney (“The Wedding Date”) stinks up the screen as Bob Connor (read as “con-her”), a smarmy recently-separated single father…
THE DEVIL’S REJECTS
Controversial for its gratuitous use of exploitative violence and gore “The Devil’s Rejects” is unredeemable for its wrongheaded attempt at…
MYSTERIOUS SKIN — CLASSIC FILM PICK
Hack child exploitation filmmakers like Todd Solondz (“Palindromes”) or Larry Clark (“Kids”) should quake in their boots. Gregg Araki returns…
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
Tim Burton lovingly adapts Roald Dahl’s famous children’s novel to the big screen with a hyper keen sense of the…
TURTLES CAN FLY
On the eve of the 2003 US-led invasion of Baghdad, a Kurdish refugee camp near the Turkish border is the…
WEDDING CRASHERS
Vince Vaughn commits rampant acts of comic zeal while the script around him crumbles in a movie that loses its…
MAD HOT BALLROOM
“Mad Hot Ballroom” is a testament to the elementary public school system of New York’s five boroughs, to its kids…
FANTASTIC FOUR
Another Marvel comic book movie, in the vein of “X-Men,” for 10-year-old boys splashes across the screen with special effects…
WAR OF THE WORLDS
“This is E.T. gone bad,” said Tom Cruise of Steven Spielberg’s cinematic adaptation of H.G. Wells’ 1898 novel as scripted…
BATMAN BEGINS
Christian Bale does a magnificent job of portraying the Caped Crusader in the long-awaited prequel story of Batman’s auspicious origin.…
HIGH TENSION
Gory European gothic horror doesn’t come any weirder than it does when a couple of lesbian college girlfriends retreat to…
MR. & MRS. SMITH
The attractive onscreen union of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie is the only thing “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” offers an…
HAROLD & KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE
The amiable film is groundbreaking for its fresh depiction of Asian American and Indian American youth culture, with characters that…
LOOK AT ME (COMME UNE IMAGE) — CANNES 2004
Lolita Cassard (Marilou Berry) is a talented 20-year-old singer of classical music. She’s also the overweight daughter of Etienne Cassard…
CINDERELLA MAN
“Cinderella Man” was the first movie of 2005 to have multiple Oscar nomination contingencies thanks to a compelling script expertly…
STAR WARS: EPISODE III — REVENGE OF THE SITH
Doomed to be forever referenced as the least offensive Star Wars movie of the prequel trilogy, “Star Wars: Episode III…
COLE SMITHEY’S CLASSIC CINEMA
