The Notebook (2004)
I think modern movies have ruined my ability to enjoy a throwback romance like The Notebook. With every other movie sporting some sort of surprise ending, I spent half of the time bemoaning the fact...
Category: 2000s
Son of the Mask (2005)
$100,000,000 The figure you see above is what New Line Cinema reportedly paid to make this horrendously inept piece of garbage posing as family entertainment. Some sources have that figure at about $75 million,...
Creep (2004)
I’m not exactly certain why this film is called Creep, but if the creators of this disheartening dreck were to ask me for a better name, I’d tell them to remove the two E’s from...
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
As a director, Clint Eastwood has sometimes been down, but never for the count, and if you consider the last two films he has directed, Mystic River and Million Dollar Baby, you might even conclude he has hit...
Sideways (2004)
In my book, Alexander Payne is now 4-for-4 as director and auteur, choosing unlikely ideas for good movies and making them far more engrossing than anyone could have a right to expect them to be. ...
Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
Assault on Precinct 13 is a remake of the cult classic John Carpenter film of the same name of 1976, offering several key twists to the story, and ratcheting up the graphic violence and language for today’s...
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
From the duo that brought you the TV show, “Spaced”, comes Shaun of the Dead, a mix of farcical comedy and gory horror movie. Like many other British comedies, Shaun gains most of its laughs at the sheer...
Elektra (2005)
In the comic book world, Elektra has always been more of a third-tier “superhero,” who has had her purpose and enjoyed a brief moment in the spotlight due to her philandering with a well-known...
First Daughter (2004)
Forest Whitaker returns with yet another film aimed at female audiences, this time going for a younger crowd with First Daughter, the latest in a series of seemingly never-ending tales about the repression of self-identity that...
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004)
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster is kind of a monster of its own, starting out as promotional footage for the band’s record label, later changing into a proposed reality series to be aired on...