Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
July 27, 2005
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) is a film bound to polarize audiences and critics alike. Loving homage or blatant rip-off? It really depends on whether you love or hate this movie. Personally, I was transported away to this cinematic dreamland...
Walking Tall
July 16, 2005
Now before I start, don’t think I’m one of those people who just wants to bash the Rock; analy spouting how he has no part in film and should have stuck to his spandex wearing, ring prancing antics. Quite the opposite in fact, I’m a...
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
June 14, 2005
At first, it seems like rather an odd choice picking the director of the racy, coming-of-age road movie, Y tu mamá también (2001), to direct the latest Harry Potter movie, The Prisoner of Azkaban (2004). Studios are notoriously protective of their cash...
Pirates of the Caribbean: Special Edition
May 21, 2005
Arrr, mateys! There be something even more deadly than the Curse of the Black Pearl. It is the curse of the dreaded double-dipping! What with losing Pixar in 2006 and the imminent departure of Miramax seemingly any day now, Disney is scrambling to find...
Thunderbirds
May 21, 2005
Making a film based upon a successful television show from the sixties isn’t a new concept as we have already had ‘The Avengers’ ‘Lost in Space’ and ‘Charlie’s Angels’, but the most eagerly anticipated big screen update is that based upon...
Mission Without Permission
May 20, 2005
When dad gets sick it’s up to Maddy and her clever friends to come up with the money for his operation and it just so happens mom is in charge at the new bank… Mission Without Permission (also known as Catch That Kid) tries to do the kiddie...
Santa Claus: The Movie
May 1, 2005
Christmas is a time of year that seems to stimulate many a good scribe to churn out a script based around the holiday season. Television will be bombarded with crap Christmas Specials of successful sitcoms, somewhere ‘The Snowman’ will be...
Star Trek: Generations: Special Collector’s Edition
April 20, 2005
Touted as the legendary meeting of Captain Kirk (Shatner) from the classic Trek and Captain Picard (Stewart) from The Next Generation, Star Trek: Generations (1994) was seen as a symbolic passing of the torch from one franchise to the other. However,...
Van Helsing: 2 Disc Special Edition
February 28, 2005
After his financial success with The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, director Stephen Sommers was given free reign by the studios to make anything he wanted. He went off to write a small scale film but came back with the script for Van Helsing which, with...
Hidalgo
November 28, 2004
Filmmaker Joe Johnston is something of a curious anomaly in Hollywood. He got his start as a protégé of Steven Spielberg and George Lucas and adopted their style of filmmaking once he became a director. He has since made retro adventure films his forte...
