The Fighting Temptations (2003)
There are only two reasons I’m giving The Fighting Temptations a marginal recommendation: great music and it manages to succeed in what it sets out to do, leave you feeling better coming out than going in. ...
Author: Vincent Leo
American Splendor (2003)
American Splendor is a movie unlike any other, taken from the pages of Harvey Pekar’s autobiographical underground comic book of the same name. The husband/wife team of Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini do a semi-documentary...
Underworld (2003)
The film is called Underworld, and that’s where it belongs, as anything this perpetually derivative doesn’t deserve to see the light of day. It’s made for one type of audience: the ones who like everything...
Cold Creek Manor (2003)
Back in 1992, screenwriter Richard Jefferies wrote the screenplay for a little known comedy-horror atrocity called The Vagrant, which was about a man who buys a new house only to be terrorized by a local...
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
An unlikely story to turn into a movie, and an unlikely movie that would turn into a contemporary masterpiece, The Shawshank Redemption not only deserved its Best Picture nomination, but it also deserved to win out...
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
To the best of my recollection, there just hasn’t been a good pirate movie made in my lifetime, so it should be easy to guess that expectations were certainly low going into seeing Pirates of...
Matchstick Men (2003)
I’ve always found great enjoyment in the con man thrillers, usually, because they are the smartest of the suspense genre, having to be totally believable while doing some things so subtle that it would...
According to Spencer (2001)
Jesse Bradford stars as Spencer Gould, a reserved young man that has a hard time going for what he wants, although his influential grandmother always tried to instill self-confidence within him. After 25 years...
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture continues the TV series that ran on NBC from 1966-69. Suffering abysmal ratings in its initial run, Paramount sold the show to syndication, where it developed a strongly devoted...
History of the World Part I (1981)
If one were to chart Mel Brooks’ directed movies based on quality from the beginning of his career to the end you’d have an almost perfect forward slanting line downward. History of the World Part...