The Animal (2001)
This is the kind of film that happens when an idea that should have been no more than a 10-minute skit during Schneider’s old SNL days gets made into a full-length movie. While playing...
Category: 2000s
King Kong (2005)
It’s a tall order to have to remake a well-known classic, especially one that still is able to thrill audiences today. Despite its popularity, King Kong is an example of a classic film that actually could...
The Net 2.0 (2006)
Probably near the top of the list of sequels that never needed to be made is The Net 2.0, an in-name-only sequel to 1995’s very modest hit, The Net. The premise is simple: an attractive American...
Aeon Flux (2005)
Needlessly dull, Aeon Flux is a film that diffuses any claim to entertainment value by trying to have things both ways as an action/sci-fi flick. Those seeking action have to sit through a convoluted plot...
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005)
Sometimes gorgeously realized, this first chapter in a proposed seven-film series, based on their appropriate counterparts in novel form by C.S. Lewis, still falls short in the narrative and dialogue. With fantasy films raking...
The Ice Harvest (2005)
The Ice Harvest falls into the subcategory of a Coen Brothers film done without the Coens writing or directing. It seems to be a genre that has been picking up steam recently, as the very Fargo-esque The...
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
There are movies that one recommends for the characterizations and the cleverness in the dialogue rather than the story or plot. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang strikes me as one of those kinds of movies. That’s...
Shopgirl (2005)
Claire Danes stars as Mirabelle, who has recently moved to Los Angeles from her Vermont upbringing and has secured a job working as a salesperson in the glove department of the chic Saks Fifth...
The Weather Man (2005)
It’s Nicolas Cage doing what he does best, play a self-defeating loser, in The Weather Man, a bigger budget Hollywood release that feels like a small, quirky independent comedy. It’s a comedy that just barely...
Prime (2005)
Prime ostensibly gets its title from the theory that men reach their sexual prime in their early adulthood, while women hit it as they approach 40. Writer-director Ben Younger goes a step further in...