Alfred Hitchcock Signature Collection
June 1, 2005
The newly released Alfred Hitchcock Signature Collection contains nine of the Master of Suspense’s movies from 1940 to 1959. It’s an intriguing mix of the famous (North by Northwest) and the underrated (Mr. and Mrs. Smith). All of the films in the...
Dawn of the Dead: Director’s Cut
May 29, 2005
There are two ends of the scale when it comes to Hollywood remakes. There’s the nonsensical and pointless (Psycho 1998,) and there’s the smart re-imaging for a modern audience (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2003). Nearly twenty-five years after...
Secret Window
May 23, 2005
Somewhere over the last eighteen months Johnny Depp has risen from kooky character actor to a bone fide national treasure, even securing himself a Best Actor Oscar nomination for Pirates Of The Caribbean. His follow up to that film, Secret Window, reaffirms...
Murder One: Case Two +
May 19, 2005
The creative minds behind TV greats such as NYPD Blue, Doogie Howser M.D, L.A Law, Dark Angel and The Shield are at it again. This time Steven Bochco and Charles H. Eglee, are revising what worked and what didn’t in producing a second series of...
Track Down
April 24, 2005
Track Down (1999) is a movie plagued by a troubled and checkered past. Based on the book Takedown by Tsutomu Shimomura and John Markoff, it chronicled the battle between two computer experts: ace hacker Kevin Mitnick and computer crimes expert Shimomura...
Saw
April 21, 2005
There are many psychos out there in movie land and each one has their ‘thing’ that separates them from the others. A calling card if you will. Some like chainsaws, some don a ghost mask, some invade your dreams and some are killer clowns from...
The Day After Tomorrow
March 31, 2005
Not since Armageddon (1998) has a film taken such a complete leave of its scientific senses. The Day After Tomorrow (2004) is Roland Emmerich’s latest cinematic ode to destruction movies. He’s already blown up the White House in Independence Day (1996)...
Man on Fire
March 18, 2005
Tony Scott is a journeyman action film director capable of producing an excellent film when given the right material (True Romance) and truly abysmal ones when given the wrong material (The Fan). Either way, his films all have a distinctive look of a...
Taking Lives: Unrated Director’s Cut
January 30, 2005
Taking Lives (2004) was released the same year as the Ashley Judd film, Twisted and shares the same dubious honor of being a generic thriller starring an extremely talented actress who should know better. So, what went wrong? The performances by the talented...
The Village
December 16, 2004
There are those out there that consider M. Night Shyamalan to be this generation’s Hitchcock (albeit with a thirst for horror), and there are those who consider him a hack who relies on outlandish plot twists. If you didn’t like The Sixth...
