School of Rock (2003)
School of Rock becomes the third recent feel-good comedy to come out with a musical backbone, and when you have a formula that works, it seems unlikely to be the last. So far so good,...
Category: Comedy
The Rundown (2003)
Sometimes it’s the casting that makes or breaks a movie, and in casting The Rock as the good guy and Christopher Walken as the bad, you’re already halfway successful to make a fun, exciting movie. ...
The Fighting Temptations (2003)
There are only two reasons I’m giving The Fighting Temptations a marginal recommendation: great music and it manages to succeed in what it sets out to do, leave you feeling better coming out than going in. ...
American Splendor (2003)
American Splendor is a movie unlike any other, taken from the pages of Harvey Pekar’s autobiographical underground comic book of the same name. The husband/wife team of Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini do a semi-documentary...
Matchstick Men (2003)
I’ve always found great enjoyment in the con man thrillers, usually, because they are the smartest of the suspense genre, having to be totally believable while doing some things so subtle that it would...
According to Spencer (2001)
Jesse Bradford stars as Spencer Gould, a reserved young man that has a hard time going for what he wants, although his influential grandmother always tried to instill self-confidence within him. After 25 years...
History of the World Part I (1981)
If one were to chart Mel Brooks’ directed movies based on quality from the beginning of his career to the end you’d have an almost perfect forward slanting line downward. History of the World Part...
Summer Catch (2001)
Yes, it’s just another teen movie, regardless if they are actually playing 20-somethings. It’s the same old story you’ve seen before a hundred times, this time centering around the world of summer league baseball. ...
My Boss’s Daughter (2003)
Here’s another one of those movies that the critics had a feeding frenzy over, tearing it mercilessly apart, and proclaiming it one of the worst films of the year. Yet again, I watch it...
The Final Curtain (2002)
Perhaps the best thing you can say about The Final Curtain is that it’s only 85 minutes long. The worst thing you can say is that it’s 85 minutes of your life you won’t get back...