The Mummy Returns (2001)
Although only three years have passed since the first film in real time, this sequel takes place about a decade years after the events of The Mummy. Adventurer Rick O’Connell (Fraser, Monkeybone) and librarian Evelyn...
2000s / Action / Adventure / Comedy / Horror
by Vincent Leo · Published August 12, 2008 · Last modified April 19, 2019
Although only three years have passed since the first film in real time, this sequel takes place about a decade years after the events of The Mummy. Adventurer Rick O’Connell (Fraser, Monkeybone) and librarian Evelyn...
1990s / Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Horror
by Vincent Leo · Published August 2, 2008 · Last modified January 28, 2019
A barely recognizable remake of the 1932 Boris Karloff classic, 1999’s The Mummy tells the tale of the Ancient Egyptian high priest, Imhotep (Vosloo, Agent Cody Banks), who made the fatal error of engaging in an affair...
A Chinese proverb inspires four interconnected stories that deal with four interrelated emotions (Love, Pleasure, Sorrow, and Happiness) explored in this ambitious, but highly flawed dramatic thriller by first-time feature film writer-director, Jieho Lee. ...
With its large cast and interweaving storylines of tragedy, the comparisons to Magnolia are probably warranted, although Paul Haggis’ Crash doesn’t come close to capturing the inspiration and artistic heights of the film it emulates. Still, the...
Baseball comedies are usually an easy sell for me, as I love baseball and movies about it. Even mediocre films can be somewhat tolerable when setting on the stage of America’s pastime, and while The...
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. ...
I’ve yet to see the 1967 original Dudley Moore comedy of the same name, but I don’t think I’ll need to compare the two. Bedazzled is a story that has been countless times before, from Faust onward. This...
With Honors is a comedy dealing with a Harvard law student (Fraser, The Scout) whose academic career seems bleak when his computer crashes, deleting his hard drive, and along with it, his thesis that he had spent...
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