Click (2006)
There is probably no film this year I’ll struggle with in terms of how I feel about it than Click, a mix of surprisingly mature comedy mixed jarringly with downright juvenile moments of gross-out gags. ...
There is probably no film this year I’ll struggle with in terms of how I feel about it than Click, a mix of surprisingly mature comedy mixed jarringly with downright juvenile moments of gross-out gags. ...
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift is more of a spin-off than a sequel, with wholly different characters and storyline than the previous two films in the series, The Fast and the Furious and 2 Fast 2...
After his mother (Lathan) had been bitten by a vampire during her pregnancy, her son Eric, later dubbed “Blade” (Snipes) was born with reconstructed DNA, giving him a mixture of strengths between vampires and humans. At...
Based on the 1998 novel by Patrick McCabe, Breakfast on Pluto tells the strange odyssey of Irish transvestite Patrick Braden (Murphy), abandoned as a baby to an a life of foster care by his mother,...
The surprise hit House Party earned a sequel one year later, continuing the adventures of rappers Kid n Play after they’ve just graduated high school. Kid (Reid) is off to college, the same one as...
Steven Spielberg’s intended follow-up to Close Encounters of the Third Kind was a darker alien-invasion concept called Night Skies. The story idea came during Spielberg’s UFO research, stumbling across the Kelly-Hopkinsville incident in which aliens...
1980s / Adventure / Comedy / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published June 6, 2006 · Last modified July 2, 2019
Although dominated by its impressive special effects, Honey I Shrunk the Kids (originally scripted with the title, Teenie Weenies) thankfully proves to be more than just a treat for the eyes. For a family film, it is...
Brooke (Aniston) and Gary (Vaughn) are live-in lovers that get into a heated argument about Gary’s choice of slacking, rather than voluntarily assisting his insufferable girlfriend with the daily chores. Brooke gets so frustrated that she...
Fathers’ Day is yet another American remake of a French comedy that falls flat on its face from an absence of quality humor. Perhaps most of the humor is lost in translation or perhaps the...
Designed to have an underlying commentary about what it’s like to be 20-something in the mid-1990s, Reality Bites does contain a few insights, but not nearly enough to be able to lay its claim as...
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