Don't you just hate it when movies take too long to get going?? It can be really frustrating, especially when you've seen the trailer a hundred times, so you pretty much get the gist of the story.
Cellular gets going right away. Everyone knows Kim Basinger's character is going to get kidnapped, as is her son. This happens minutes into the movie, and that's good.
Review: Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Posted by: Mark McLeod • September 10, 2004 @ 11:59am
Raccoon City, U.S. is home to the biggest corporate conglomeration, Umbrella Corp, which is the largest supplier of medical supplies, cutting edge health care technology, and weapon defense systems. Although they are a highly visible to the public, they also have many deep dark secrets, including the Hive, an underground testing facility where a few years back something went terribly wrong.
Intern Academy introduces us to a group of third-year medical students excited to be getting their first internship at Saint Albert's hospital, a facility lovingly referred to as Saint Al's. Al's isn't the best hospital in the health care system as its equipment is either outdated or being sold off by hospital administrator Cyrill Kipp (Dan Aykroyd) to meet the payroll each month.
Interview: Carly Pope of Intern Academy
Posted by: Mark McLeod • September 10, 2004 @ 12:00am
Those of you who regularly read my coverage on film will know that first and foremost I think of myself as a film critic and secondly as a film journalist. Although I've been approached to do various interviews and have had the opportunity to sit down and talk with a number of actors, actresses, writers, and directors, it's not often that I feel inspired enough to do just that.
Director Kerry Conran's Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is a look back at how people of the 1940s and 1950s saw the future through comic books, pulp novels, and serials of the era.
What is it like to be lonely?
In every single moment you just seem to flutter by. Not making any real connections but meeting people who never truly meet you.
Then for two glorious months you finally connect with someone, only to watch it disappear as quickly as it arrived.
Question: What exactly is a "chick flick"? Answer: A movie without car chases.
Vanity Fair begins in the year 1802. Car chases were ruled out from the start.
Review: Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
Posted by: Dean Kish • August 27, 2004 @ 11:59am
Does anyone remember those old jungle serials? How about the Tarzan films of the 1930s and 1940s starring Johnny Weissmuller? What about the Tarzan TV series of the 1970s with Ron Ely?
Well all of these in some shape or another came to mind as I watched the low-budget horror sequel, Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid.
Ben Kingsley may not be God, but he is Ghandi. He won an Oscar for Ghandi, but that was more than twenty years ago, a time when we thought Duran-Duran was the future of music and the only "reality-show" on television was the news.
As it looks on paper, Without a Paddle is just another one of those gross-out comedies. You also may classify it as just another teen comedy. Well I beg to differ.
In Without a Paddle, Dan (Seth Green), Jerry (Matthew Lillard), and Tom (Dax Shepherd) reunite after the passing of their childhood friend, Billy.
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