Cloverfield (2008)
Cloverfield‘s premise isn’t dissimilar to The Blair Witch Project in that it is a mock home video taken of a terrifying event shot by one of the eyewitnesses. The opening written blurbs indicate that the...
Category: 2000s
National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)
“More of the same” perhaps was the prevailing mantra during every phase of the conception for this sequel to the 2004 hit National Treasure, as it basically covers every base touched by the first film...
Mission: Impossible II (2000)
Rather than calling this basically in-name-only sequel to the successful De Palma directed outing of 1996 Mission: Impossible, they really should have just called it John Woo XI. This basically is just a continuation of the...
61* (2001)
Hardcore baseball (and Yankees) fan Billy Crystal directs this sentimental memento on one of the greatest races in sports history: chasing Babe Ruth’s vaunted single-season home run record. Made for HBO on a modest budget...
My Blueberry Nights (2007)
Master of melancholy moods and improvisational romantic dramas, Wong Kar Wai (Ashes of Time, In the Mood for Love), brings his trademark style to his first English-language feature to mixed results. His cinematography and...
Fred Claus (2007)
The proverbial lumps of coal (boy, isn’t this phrase becoming a trite cliché for movie critics?) called the family Christmas movie get trotted out toward the end of almost every year. For every good...
Hustle & Flow (2005)
Terrence Howard’s Oscar-nominated performance highlights this interesting and provocative look at the life of a two-bit pimp and drug dealer who finds a calling after deciding that he has a voice that needs to...
30 Days of Night (2007)
Based on the comic book, 30 Days of Night imagines a scenario where vampires decide to attack a small Alaskan town known to have 30 straight days without sunlight annually. Steve Niles, who wrote the...
3:10 to Yuma (2007)
2007’s version of 3:10 to Yuma is the right way to remake a classic film. Instead of a complete rehash with saltier material, or something so divergent as to be unrecognizable, the screenplay by Michael Brand and...
Superbad (2007)
Those who can’t get enough of the pop-culture literate comedies by Judd Apatow (The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up) that celebrate the geek culture in wickedly funny ways would do well to check out Superbad. Although he...