The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
This is the one that finally broke me. J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” has the secondary title of “There and Back Again”, which certainly rang true for many readers, who enjoy going back to the...
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Open Season (2006)
First came Madagascar. Then came The Wild. Now we have yet another 3D-animated film about animals in captivity trying to fend for themselves in what would normally have been their natural habitat. While it isn’t surprising...
Timeline (2003)
A popular Michael Crichton novel gets the big budget movie treatment yet again, and like many of the other adaptations of his work, the results are only so-so. Here, it’s fairly easy to see...
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
As someone who has read (well, “audio-booked”) the first three entries into the Lemony Snicket (aka Daniel Handler) series, “A Series of Unfortunate Events”, I could easily start this review by complaining about the...
The Last Samurai (2003)
Director and co-writer Edward Zwick returns back to the thematic territory of his most acclaimed film, Glory, with another rousing adventure full of stirring drama and stunning battle sequences. It’s reminiscent of several other acclaimed films,...
White Oleander (2002)
Based on Janet Fitch’s best-selling novel of the same name, White Oleander plays more like a four-part drama on life-lessons than as a cohesive, conventional thriller. With such a uniquely constructed narrative, it becomes...
Boondock Saints (1999)
In Boston, two brothers of Irish descent, Connor (Flanery) and Murphy (Reedus), see themselves as the “saints” meant to rid the town of evildoers once they off some Russian hoods. The people of the city...