Agent Cody Banks (2003)
While it’s not going to score any points for originality, Agent Cody Banks almost has enough energy and charm to make you overlook its considerable flaws. You can pretty much guess how it’s all going to...
Category: 2000s
Dreamcatcher (2003)
Dreamcatcher is one long, glorious turd of a movie that will possibly go down as a fave cult film for some, while completely bewildering the rest of the audiences out there. From initial appearances feels like...
Monkeybone (2001)
Monkeybone is a headscratcher of a film; you may laugh your ass off or you may stare in bewilderment, and at the end, you will probably not know for sure what to make of it. ...
Sol Goode (2003)
Sometimes I question the marketing decisions of the production companies that decide to make video renters think they are getting one thing and giving them another. In the case of Sol Goode, the trailer and...
Laurel Canyon (2002)
Laurel Canyon made me feel like I was watching the pilot to some new “made for HBO” series, featuring the decadent portrayals of a Hollywood family — their life, their loves, and their lessons learned. ...
Bringing Down the House (2003)
Bringing Down the House isn’t so much a romantic comedy as it is a buddy movie, with all of the formulaic comic devices that the term has come to be defined as over the...
Tears of the Sun (2003)
Bruce and co. are sent on a special-ops mission into the Nigerian jungle with a simple mission to get an American (by marriage), and any other “non-indigenous” people out of there before the newly empowered...
Poolhall Junkies (2002)
Poolhall Junkies tries very hard to be a hip mix of Rounders grittiness, Reservoir Dogs machismo, and Swingers camaraderie, but doesn’t have the talent to pull it off. Although there is an impressive cast for such a low budget feature ($4...
The Devil’s Backbone (2001)
Slowly but surely, Mexican director Guillermo del Toro has been crafting a nice little career for himself as a director of atmospheric horror, and El Espinazo del Diablo (or The Devil’s Backbone, as it’s known in the English-language...
The Pledge (2001)
The Pledge follows an aging Nevada homicide detective (Nicholson), days from retirement, who investigates a child murder in the snows of the nearby hills. He vows to find the murderer to the parents of the...