How’s your day going? If you say “pretty good” or perhaps “great” then I have an idea for you. Why not go to see Pride and Glory because only someone who is feeling good should chance spending two hours sitting through this depressing film. On the other hand, if you are not having a good [...]
This film is based on the true story of football great Ernie Davis of Syracuse University who became the first black player to win the coveted Heisman Trophy. It tracks Davis through his childhood to his high school and college days and finally his brief stint with the professionals. During this time period we see [...]
I guess that I am still a teenager at heart. Unfortunately, I am probably at about that stage mentally also! One thing for sure is that Sex Drive is one ridiculous movie. Ridiculous and very funny. In fact, I laughed throughout the entire film. And guess what? I wasn’t the only one laughing even though [...]
After seeing the trailer for this movie, I did not quite know what to expect. I had remembered a giant winged creature pulling a man out of a window of a high rise. It turns out that this creature is a Valkyrie who, in Norse mythology, is a minor female deity. The Valkyries’ purpose was [...]
Think of embers as in a dying fire and that is what the people who live in the underground City of Ember are facing. They are facing a complete lack of light if their giant generator (fire) dies out thus extinguishing the incandescent lamps that make up their “sky” (embers). Think about how dark it [...]
Liar, liar, pants on fire! Well, I guess you have to lie if you work in the intelligence business and we have plenty of liars in this movie. The problem is that just as it is in the real world, each liar believes that his cause is righteous and thus justifies his deceptions or violence. We [...]
I am a fan of horror movies, not horrible movies! Please don’t get me wrong, I do not like movies of the ilk of Saw, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, etc. It is however fun to be scared out of your skivvies every once in a while. You know the movies where you jump and your popcorn goes [...]
What can I say? I went to this movie expecting to laugh out loud and all that I could manage was a few chuckles. I reasoned that if director David Zucker had me howling during his work on Airplane and the Naked Gun, how could I go wrong? Especially considering all of the guest stars and cameo [...]
In most movies and TV shows we are told to “go into the light.” That would be a huge mistake in this movie. You see, the light is what happens to you when you are affected by the virus in question. It causes a type of blindness that is not the complete lack of light [...]
Whoa there, pardner! Hop on down and sit a spell. Yep, I just got back from viewing a good old “rootin tootin” western. Ya gotta love the period westerns that are authentic in both costume and language. Forget Roy Rogers and the Lone Ranger with their fancy gunplay and outfits. Appaloosa has feel of the [...]
