The Lone Ranger
January 14, 2014
Johnny Depp and director Gore Verbinski’s first collaboration was on the surprise box office success that was Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003). They worked together on two subsequent sequels, Dead Men’s Chest (2006) and...
Drive Angry
May 31, 2011
Continuing his string of paycheck movies, Drive Angry (2011) is actually closer to the gonzo Nicolas Cage of old than the diluted actor we’ve come to expect in films like Next (2007) and Knowing (2009). With Drive Angry, he’s made a full-on, balls-out...
Invasion: The Complete Series
August 14, 2006
Poor Shaun Cassidy. If he didn’t have bad luck he’d have no luck at all. In 1995, he created American Gothic, a creepy supernatural drama for network television that was unable to garner decent enough ratings to stay on the air. In 2005, he returned...
Ultraviolet: Unrated Extended Cut
June 28, 2006
The film presents a future ravaged by a disease known as hemophagia that mutates its victims giving them enhanced speed, strength and intelligence but with a drastically shortened life-span of 12 years. The government tried to eliminate all of the diseased...
Crash
February 1, 2006
Thanks to a canny marketing campaign and a star-studded cast, Crash (2004) was a hot topic, must-see movie when it came out in theatres earlier this year. Like Steve Soderbergh’s Traffic (2000), Crash addresses a major problem that continues to plague...
Heat: Special Edition
August 21, 2005
After the commercial and critical success of The Last of the Mohicans (1992), filmmaker Michael Mann made his most ambitious film up to that point in his career with Heat (1996). He cast legendary actors Robert De Niro and Al Pacino as the leads in what...
Black Hawk Down
May 25, 2003
For the sake of uncle Sam, baseball and all things American Daz unfolds his Stars and Stripes flag, cuts himself a large slice of apple pie and settles down with Black Hawk Down. God bless America. With a film produced by Jerry Bruckheimer (The Rock,...