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There is always a difficult balancing act when it comes to reviewing the work of an actor or actress that you dislike. How much of your opinion is based on their performance, and how much of it is based solely on them?
Capricorn One Lionsgate 1978 / Color / 2:35 anamorphic widescreen / 123 min. / Street Date October 14, 2008 / 19.98 Starring Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Brenda Vaccaro, Sam Waterston, O.J. Simpson, Hal Holbrook, James Karen.
Irma Vep Zeitgeist 1996 / Color / 1:66 anamorphic widescreen / 1997 min. / Street Date December 9, 2008 / 29.99 Starring Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Richard, Bernard Nissile, Bulle Ogier, Lou Castel.
Man-boys are all the rage at the multiplex these days. From The 40 Year Old Virgin to Role Models , Hollywood comedies these days feature more arrested adolescents than summer camp.
Eight or nine years ago, the last thing you'd expect to see either Ice Cube or Fred Durst involved in would be a gentle, PG-rated, "based on a true story" family sports movie.
Hard to believe, but it's been a full decade since the last "X-Files" picture, "Fight the Future," hit the big screen to enthusiastic response, plunging the then-running television series even further into ferocious alien disturbances and its own vast sci-fi mythmaking quest.
It's not the familiarity that ultimately undoes "Wanted," but its uncharacteristic reserve. A back-flipping action bonanza, "Wanted" is an adult cartoon, taking acts of death-defying stupidity to their most illogical extreme, and that's exactly where this outlandish visual buffet should stay.
The Product: All artforms have their specific subcategories. Horror has its comedies and torture porn, while R&B can claim soul, funk, New Jack Swing, and hip-hop, just to name a few.
The Film: If there was ever a film I thought would never see the light of day on DVD, it would have to be director Sam Fuller's White Dog . Regarded by many as one of the most controversial films of all time--unwarranted hyperbolic exaggeration if there ever was any-- White Dog has languished, practically unreleased since its production in 1982. Since that time it has had a relatively ...
Meet Joe, the fastest gun in town. He'll outdraw you any day, any time. Using a single action revolver, he can take down two men before they even reach their triggers. He's born to be a gunslinger in the old west - but this ain't the old west, and Joe ain't no cowboy.
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