This movie is painful.
Somewhere some Hollywood executive is thinking that it was a fantastic idea to make a prequel to the first Scorpion King movie. With all the box office The Mummy franchise generates, this straight-to-DVD movie seems like a no-brainer right? Oh, man, that Hollywood executive couldn’t be more wrong.The first Scorpion King movie, starring Dwayne...
BBC America unleashes a new comedy on the unsuspecting population of the US.
The course of true love never did run smooth. Such is certainly the case in the new ("new" in that it hasn't aired in this country yet) BBC America comedy Gavin & Stacey. Premiering on August 26, the series follows the relationship 20-somethings in the United Kingdom, one in Wales and one in England. As the series opens, Stacey...
The summer is winding down, see'em while you still can.
This weekend will continue the late summer trend downward with no obvious blockbusters set to arrive. As we draw closer to the start of the new school year studios are not exactly clamoring to release big budget fare. Instead we get films with more moderate aspirations like The Rocker and The Longshots. This is not to say they are bad or that we...
The House season four DVD set lets us catch up while waiting for the season premiere.
Okay, House fans, following the climactic events of season four (season four spoilers coming!), is everybody ready for season five? What will happen to House and Wilson? Will Wilson blame House for Amber's death? Will House blame himself? And what do you make of the fact that Cuddy stayed at House's bedside and held his hand as he lay...
Skateboarding is not a crime unless it becomes one.
Nobody does young male angst quite like Gus Van Sant. And over the course of more than twenty years it’s a landscape he returns to again and again throughout his filmmaking career. While some films are more successful than others, when evaluated as a body of work, Van Sant has painted an increasingly complex and irreplaceable portrait of...
A gangster melodrama that is still pointed and pertinent today.
Aljean Harmetz, in his 1993 book Round Up the Usual Suspects: The Making of "Casablanca,” cites director Michael Curtiz as having an almost totally “visual” interpretation of a film. Harmetz states that Curtiz once even claimed to not care very much about character, saying instead that his pacing was so quick that there was...
Fun. Insubstantial, but fun.
When I first saw the trailer for The Rocker one thought came to my mind almost immediately: "If this was made five years ago, Will Ferrell would be the star." As that thought faded, it was replaced with a desire to see it. That's right, I was actually anxious to see this! I could not imagine it being terribly good, but there was...
GOOOOOOOAL!
To most, “soccer is life” is a phrase best suited to t-shirts or bumper stickers but to Gil Davis (Gilmore Girls’ Scott Patterson), that simple statement is taken to extremes. And unfortunately, while his chance for soccer glory has passed due to a bum knee, he’s passed down this very belief to his bright, dutiful, and...
