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Jersey Girl

Jersey Girl is the new and surprisingly uninspired film by director Kevin Smith. Where in the past his characters have engaged in urbane but witty conversations about nothing as they do nothing, here is a story about someone, trying to do something. Unfortunately what the film is trying to do is emulate every other parent [Read More …]

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

I have put off this review for a bit because I don’t really know what to say about it. Did I enjoy it? Yes definitely. Do I think about it after the fact? Of course, the characters may be screwy and the story may be surreal and distorted, but like Lost in Translation its characters [Read More …]

Hidalgo

The advertising says that the film Hidalgo is based on the true story of Frank T Hopkins a half-Indian endurance rider who won a 3,000 mile endurance race across the Arabian desert in 1890 on a mustang named Hidalgo and went on to become a vocal activist for the preservation of the mustang breed. This [Read More …]

Azumi

Azumi is exactly what I would expect seeing in a Japanese action movie. Though it was billed as an action opera, I’m not sure I see the operatic in this film. Kitamura presents a stylized swordplay film complete with quirky characters, strange humor, and lots and lots of gore. There were some unnecessarily artistic elements [Read More …]

The Haunted Mansion

The Haunted Mansion was a fine family adventure film based on the theme park ride of the same name from the Disney theme parks, and if that was all that the film was expected to be it would have been fine and good and the review could proceed accordingly. However, Disney happened to release this [Read More …]

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