Action/Adventure Rated PG-13
“Say what you will about these movies, but in audio terms they’re things of beauty.”
“If you’re lucky – and this is rare – you can figure out which robots are fighting and, eventually, who won.
“…like watching a chainsaw tear apart a toy box.
“…like watching a car compactor at work in a junkyard.
Comedy Rated PG
“…a gleefully sinister lump of coal.”
Thriller Rated R
Realizing you can’t shoot at a virus, director Wolfgang Petersen transforms this initially chilling scientific thriller into a generic action flick. Army disease expert Sam Daniels (Dustin Hoffman) has enough on his hands while fighting a lethal African virus, but then he stumbles across a government conspiracy as well. Gunfights, helicopter chases and other predictable
Comedy Rated R
Dignity is the last thing you would expect to find here, yet that is the defining quality of this vehicle for Steve Carell, in which he plays a nerd whose buddies make it their mission to have him deflowered. In between the raunchy male talk and disastrous dates, he stumbles into a tentative romance with
Horror Rated R
Here’s where Hannibal Lecter officially transforms from pop icon to camp figure. This blatant exercise in Hollywood opportunism – Thomas Harris’ book was already adapted in 1986 as Manhunter – never has a chance thanks to Anthony Hopkins’ self-parodying performance. The only thing left for Hopkins now is to hit dinner theaters reciting the bad
Drama Rated R
Secretary features a young woman who cuts herself (Maggie Gyllenhaal) and a lawyer who considers bondage gear proper office attire (James Spader), and yet the movie isn’t about self-mutilation or dominant-submissive relationships. Instead, what begins as something kinky, even silly, transforms into an unabashed – if politically incorrect – romance. And why not – who
Drama Rated PG-13
As probation officer Sean Porter, who in real life gave a group of incarcerated juvenile offenders a second chance by creating a football team for them, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson performs so many corny inspirational speeches that his mouth might as well transform into a triumphant horn. We’re supposed to give in to this shamelessness
