Mr. and Mrs. Smith: Unrated

Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005) is one of those critic-proof movies. It’s a big, loud action movie starring two of the biggest movie stars on the planet – Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Both, incidentally, were in need of a box office hit as Pitt was coming... 

Mr. and Mrs. Smith

You can see why the tabloids had a field day over the “alleged” romance between Pitt and Jolie. Their chemistry in Mr. and Mrs. Smith is nothing short of electric. It’s sad then that the focus was on their private lives rather than the film... 

Jurrasic Park Trilogy: The Extras Disc

A note to readers that this review only refers to the fourth disc that comes with the Jurassic Park Trilogy. That fourth disc being the extras features disc for each of the original films. The words and verdict are a reflection of the extras only and... 

Be Cool

After the success of Get Shorty (1995) as a novel and a film, Elmore Leonard wrote a sequel entitled Be Cool with the notion of it being turned into a film as well (his books read almost like screenplays anyway). It has and with the hope of lightning... 

Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story

Let’s face it, dodgeball is a ridiculous sport. This raises an important (well, not really) question—can it even be called a sport? On the surface, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004) seems to say yes but in actuality it is an accurate parody... 

Starsky & Hutch

Let’s be honest, most cinematic remakes of classic TV shows are awful. They either barely resemble the original (like the Claire Danes version of The Mod Squad) or turn it into kitsch parody (like The Flintstones). More often than not the contemporary...