Godzilla and The Lost World: Jurassic Park (review)

Godzilla, cheesy as it is, is more like Spam — some of the parts you recognize as edible in other, more natural forms, but you probably don’t want to know where the other ingredients came from. And like Spam, Godzilla kinda leaves a funny coppery taste in your mouth.

Deep Impact (review)

Deep Impact isn’t about the audience watching the world end — it’s about us empathizing with the people watching the world end. Big diff. But the sold-out, opening-night crowd I saw Deep Impact with wanted none of that.

Mouse Hunt (review)

The world needs more flicks like Mouse Hunt — well, my world does, anyway. It’s nasty, wacky, Tim-Burton weird, and funny as hell.

Chasing Amy (review)

Can men and women ever be ‘just friends’? What actually constitutes virginity? Is Star Wars racist, or does the presence of Lando Calrissian belie that? These questions are important to those of us under 30, and we take the search for answers seriously…

Wilde (review)

As a certified Heartless Bitch, I gotta love a man who said ‘There is no sin except stupidity.’ Whether he uttered that before or after his 1895 trial for ‘gross indecency’ (i.e. homosexuality), Oscar Wilde had to be all too aware of the irony…

Michael Collins (review)

Michael Collins was a revolutionary, a patriot. At the risk of oversimplifying, Collins was kinda an Irish George Washington — he wanted to kick some British butt in aid of independence for his country. His story is full of drama and great personalities and stuff blowing up…

The Butcher Boy (review)

But like many Irish dramatic endeavors, The Butcher Boy is both comedy and tragedy, so Francie’s is a little more tortured than the typical childhood. And Francie himself is more unstable than most kids…

Extreme Measures (review)

When you consider it, it’s really quite an accomplishment for a movie to offend on more than one level. Extreme Measures, for example, laughs in the face of lesser films that merely bore the viewer with a predictably plot or forgettable characters…

Nightwatch (review)

It must be at least a year since I saw the first previews for Nightwatch, starring the lovely and talented Ewan McGregor. Looked like one of those scary-funny black comedies in the vein of Shallow Grave (also with McGregor), which I loved. So I waited eagerly. And waited. And waited…

Lost in Space (review)

Ultra cool! The best I’ve ever seen! Out of this world! I’m speaking, of course, of the end credits of Lost in Space, which are a psychedelic, funked-up kind of Japanese anime (the kind that gives you epilepsy — woo woo!) accompanied by way-danceable techno-pop…