The Da Vinci Code (2006)
Tom Hanks (The Polar Express, The Terminal) stars as renowned professor of historical religious symbolism Robert Langdon, who finds himself embroiled in a deadly web of intrigue when an old crony ends up murdered in...
Category: 2000s
49 Days (2006)
Somewhere underneath all of the nonsense, there seems to be a good movie yearning to break free. Sadly, the script doesn’t even begin to touch on the more exciting possibilities with the main story,...
Mission: Impossible III (2006)
I’ll preface this review with an admission. I do feel a bit guilty about giving the third Mission: Impossible movie as high a rating as I do. After giving the matter a great deal of consideration,...
Last Holiday (2006)
Last Holiday remakes the 1950 classic in typically contrived Hollywood fashion, ratcheting up the cuteness factor, while plausibility and any sense of subtlety are largely absent for the duration. What it does have is...
The Benchwarmers (2006)
The tagline for The Benchwarmers reads, “It’s never too late to take a stand,” and if it were up to me, I’d add, “…and walk out of the theater” to the end of it. Mouth agape,...
Basic Instinct 2 (2006)
Sharon Stone returns to the role that made her a star, playing Catherine Tramell in this belated sequel to the popular 1992 film, Basic Instinct. At this point in time, both for Stone’s career as well...
The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)
Shia LaBeouf stars in this solid Walt Disney production, which represents one of their finest in terms of live-action films in recent memory. The technical aspects of the film are top-notch across the board,...
Failure to Launch (2006)
Here’s a movie title that practically writes my review for me. Interminably silly, Failure to Launch is a go-with-the-flow kind of comedy that has its share of laughs and smart ideas, and yet, sometimes it...
16 Blocks (2006)
16 Blocks is a passable time-waster thriller, reminiscent in its plot to the Eastwood flick, The Gauntlet, although darker in execution. Director Richard Donner, who made some of the better cop action flicks of the...
The Seat Filler (2004)
Duane Martin stars as Derrick, a down-but-not-quite-out law student struggling to pay the bills and get his homework in on time. In order to earn some much-needed cash, Derrick takes a cushy evening job...