W. (2008)
A politics hawk like myself will find the premise of W. fascinating above and beyond the merit of its filmmaking value. Oliver Stone (World Trade Center, U-Turn) has been an uneven director throughout his career, and if...
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Grindhouse (2007)
The term “grindhouse” is attributed to a style of films that were regularly churned out in the 1970s that were predicated on delivering exploitative, sensationalist subject matter in order to entertain a defined audience...
The Sandlot (1993)
The Sandlot is a favorite movie for some, but I won’t count myself among them. Those who enjoy the film probably do so for all of the reasons I don’t — it’s childish, predictable, unrealistic, poorly...
Uptown Girls (2003)
In 1989, Boaz Yakin sees his first screenplay hit the big screen, in the misguided comic book adaptation, The Punisher. In a strange twist of fate, fourteen years later, Yakin is The Punisher! Uptown Girls is a film so horrendously inept...