Highwaymen (2003)
At a small motel in the middle of nowhere, Rennie Cray (Caviezel) lost everything that was dear to him, when a hit-and-run driver runs over his wife and speeds away. Fast forward to five...
by Vincent Leo · Published September 10, 2004 · Last modified May 21, 2019
At a small motel in the middle of nowhere, Rennie Cray (Caviezel) lost everything that was dear to him, when a hit-and-run driver runs over his wife and speeds away. Fast forward to five...
Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from his own stage play, “Compleat Female Stage Beauty”, Stage Beauty spins a tale of Ned Kynaston (Crudup), one of the most famous, and one of the last, male actors who...
Perhaps the lesser of all of the Coen Brothers’ films, their remake of the 1955 film, The Ladykillers, proves to be just too disjointed to fully enjoy in its totality. Blame miscasting of the supporting...
David (Munro) plays a comedian who is performing at a truck stop diner, much to the displeasure of his girlfriend, Sylvia (Davis. “Sex and the City”), who thinks he’s wasting his time at these...
by Vincent Leo · Published August 28, 2004 · Last modified December 2, 2019
This is pretty much a generic romantic comedy where the two would-be love interests find themselves on opposite ends of competing interests. In many ways, Laws of Attraction suffers from following too closely on the heels...
Open Water is an attempt at a realistic thriller, which some have compared to The Blair Witch Project, but I have to disagree with this comparison. Blair Witch tried to push forward a notion of realism to the...
Will Ferrell delivers again, with a little help from his friends, in this scattershot comedy that manages to hit just enough hilarious moments to look past the fact that there isn’t a well-developed, cohesive...
by Vincent Leo · Published August 8, 2004 · Last modified November 12, 2019
“2LDK” is the abbreviation in Japan for a 2 bedroom apartment, with a living room, dining room, and a kitchen. It’s also the title of this engaging, but an ultimately disappointing movie about two...
Remaking a time-honored classic film seems like a useless task, as part of the reason why the original is considered classic is due to the ability to endure over time and speak to different...
A quick note to readers: To avoid possible spoilers, I’m just going to forego giving my usual plot summary in this review, except when necessary. M. Night Shyamalan has become the “gimmick director”. After...
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