It's been a few days since the reviews of the individual SG-1 seasons wrapped up, so now we can turn our attention to the movies and the rest of the franchise. Up first, with day 42, is the first SG-1 movie: The Ark of Truth.
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Day 41 of the QDR brings the Nicolas Cage film, Lord of War; it's the story of a Ukrainian immigrant who goes into the arms dealing business. Is the film worth watching? Read the review to find out.
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Once again the QDR and CCW are merged into one post, and once again CCW looks at a classic Cary Grant comedy. This time, it's "Bringing Up Baby," a hilarious romantic comedy co-starring Katharine Hepburn. Click to read the review.
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The month of January concludes with the 31st Quick Daily Review. Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence, and William H. Macy star in Wild Hogs, a mid-life crisis biker movie. Is it any good? Read the review to find out.
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For the second Wednesday this month, Classic Cinema Wednesday is merged with the Quick Daily Review (day 30). This weeks film is the classic Cary Grant comedy/mystery, Arsenic and Old Lace. Is it any good? Click to read the review.
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After a horrible film last week, Classic Cinema Wednesday gets back on track with another great classic film: Cecil B. DeMille's 1949 Biblical epic, Samson and Delilah. Click here to read the review.
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An ailing baseball scout in his twilight years takes his daughter along for one last recruiting trip. Is it a trip you should take as well? Click to find out Jules' verdict on this film starring Clint Eastwood.
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Quentin Tarintino is back with a new film and a star-studded cast, but is "Django Unchained" any good? Click here to read Jules' review to find out.
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Jules reviews the HBO/BBC documentary "Crossfire Hurricane" chronicling the fifty year history of The Rolling Stones. Is it a documentary worth watching? Read the review to find out.
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Jules resumes his 007 review series with the unofficial 14th entry: Never Say Never Again.
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I… I don’t even know where to begin. I could feel the brain cells dying. Is Robot Monster worthy of this series? Yes, because it is a classic. Made in 1953, Robot Monster is a classic example of a bad movie. Not just bad, but downright horrible. Why was this atrocity even filmed, let alone showed to anyone? Who would pay to see this garbage, and why? Why hasn’t every copy of this been burned and destroyed, and with humanity pretending like it never happened? I just don’t get it. For the first…
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The How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days pair, Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey, team up again in this romantic-comedy. This time around, the duo play a divorced couple out on one last quest to find treasure buried at sea since 1715. McConaughey portrays Ben Finnegan, a child-at-heart surfer who has an obsession with finding the 18th century treasure. Hudson stars as his ex-wife, Tess Finnegan, who wants to move on with and rebuild her life. Tess takes a job working on a yacht, owned by a billionaire…
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James Foley churned out a brilliant film led by a terrific cast with Confidence. If you like crime/thriller movies and films that deal with the art of conning, then you must see this film, again if you already have. You’ll be hard pressed to find a better, similar film. Edward Burns stars as master conman, Jake Vig. Once Jake and his crew, Gordo (Paul Giamatti), Miles (Brian Van Holt), Big Al (Louis Lombardi), and corrupted LAPD officers Whitworth (Donald Logue) and Manzano (Luis Guzman) con…
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At its release in 1933, King Kong was quite a spectacle and a true blockbuster. And while it’s been almost 80 years since this film released, it is still quite a spectacle. Prior to watching this for the first time, I had previously seen the 1976 remake starring Jeff Bridges and Jessica Lange and thought it okay. I had also seen, and greatly enjoyed, the 2005 remake starring Naomi Watts and Adrian Brody. So I was more than familiar with the story of King Kong, but I had never seen the original…
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Citizen Kane is widely considered by many to be the greatest film ever made, and it’s certainly noteworthy for a number of reasons. It was the motion picture debut of Orson Welles, already a noted theater performer. Welles starred in, directed, produced, and co-wrote the movie, and as director he brought a number of innovative techniques to the film. The camera angles he used, the way he staged scenes, and the lighting, amongst other things, were all innovative. More importantly it all worked…
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Mitch Glazer, you son of a bitch, I want both my time and money back, but excluding that I will settle for getting a little self therapy out here for having had to sit through your atrocious movie 'Passion Play' in this review. I hate to start off a post with an out and out obscenity like that folks but I’m really almost at a complete loss for words here. I feel as though my capacity for abject thought has been lowered substantially in the last ninety minutes of my life, and I therefore need to…
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This is not a love story, or so the tagline goes. It’s also not a chick flick, which in this instance works for the films benefit. (500) Days of Summer is a romantic-comedy that is completely different from every other film in the genre, and that fact makes the movie worth watching and much more realistic. It’s the story of Tom Hansen (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and his relationship with Summer Finn (Zooey Deschanel) over the course of 500 days. Tom, a greeting card writer, is smitten with Summer…
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The Big Lebowski is a difficult film for me to review. I have probably spent more time watching this movie than any other movie in existence, but yet, I cannot say that it truly ranks with the all time classics of cinema and maintain my editorial credibility here. From a plot point of view, it’s simply a tangled mess that collapses in on itself many times over. It’s based, loosely, on the classic novel and film, ‘The Big Sleep’ by Raymond Chandler, but instead of having the protagonists be ace…
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Jim Kohlberg's ‘The Music Never Stops’ is a sweet love letter to the music of the 1960s and early 70s wrapped in a story about a father and his long estranged son reconnecting over the very thing that split them apart so long ago. It is also a story of one of the most bizzare cases of amnesia in recent medical history. The case is based on a true story originally told in the essay entitled ‘The Last Hippie’ by Oliver Sacks. The time is the late 1980s, and Gabriel Sawyer, a child of the sixties…
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Sean Vetter (Vin Diesel), a DEA agent, arrests the leader of a major drug Cartel, in Mexico. With Memo Lucero (Geno Silva) in prison, a new player emerges as the top dog in the drug business, a man known only as Diablo. A hit is placed on Vetter, and while the attempt to murder Vetter is thwarted, his wife Stacy (Jacqueline Obradors) is killed. Together with his partner, Demetrius Hicks (Larenz Tate), Vetter sets out for revenge and to bring down the Cartel’s and Diablo once and for all. They…
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