Some people view a B movie with a certain air of contempt.But watching a genuine B movie can be as pleasurable as eating at aroadside diner or going to a minor league baseball game.Such is the case with "Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid."Part jungle adventure, part horror flick, ...
For those who think Hollywood is churning out product instead of art,look no further than "Yu-Gi-Oh!"This may be the first mainstream movie to have more in common with an infomercial than a screenplay.The popular comic book/card game/TV show functions like a gamingstrategy guide come to life. ...
Certain films should stay off limits to being remade.So when the idea came about to modernize "The Manchurian Candidate," it sounded as sacrilegious as monkeying with "Casablanca" or "The Godfather." ("And starring Colin Farrell as Michael Corleone!")John Frankenheimer's original 1962 effort ...
I'm allergic to cats.But I'd rather rub my face on a Persian tabby than have to sitthrough "Catwoman" again.This latest entry to adapt a comic book character to the big screenfunctions like the antitheses of "Spider-Man 2." Whereas that movieshowed how to bring a fresh, original vision to a ...
Hollywood only puts out one or two films a year that can genuinely beconsidered science fiction.Not an action movie that takes place in the future ("Payback"), a horror movie set in space ("Ghosts of Mars") or a cinematic video game (the last "Matrix" flick), but the kind of picture that really ...
During rather hilarious outtakes that run over the closing credits of"Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy," star Will Ferrell is seenimprovising take after take of the same scene. Each time he comes upwith a different off-the-wall phrase to punctuate his dialog.The sequence is emblematic of ...
Michael Moore is the most dangerous man in America ... at least he isto the sitting president.And sitting is a fitting description of how the filmmaker views George W. Bush.In "Fahrenheit 9/11," Moore portrays the leader as a lazy, incompetent, indecisive fool with a history of having his ...
The mantra of the Spider-Man character has always been, "With greatpower comes great responsibility."Filmmaker Sam Raimi could certainly relate to that when he tackledthe first "Spider-Man" project two years ago. Commendably, he tookone of the most popular of all comic book characters and ...
It's hard to understand the fascination of watching men in drag.Those who enjoy this spectacle think simply parading around as awoman is amusing in itself. That's really only true if those in drag are given something funny to do or say. (Monty Python, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis certainly ...
The word "terminal" has always proved a little distressing when visiting an airport.There's the dual nature of the term, which can also mean "fatal" or "deadly." Then there's that aural resemblance to "interminable" - as in, "My 8-hour flight delay has led to an interminable time stuck in the ...