Genres: Adventure    Family    Fantasy    Mystery   

Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Richard Griffiths, Pam Ferris, Fiona Shaw, Harry Melling, ...

Harry Potter is growing up! The voice is deepening, the shoulders arebroadening and...hurray! You no longer feel like a creep for having alittle crush on Daniel Radcliffe...whoops, did I say that out loud? Saywhat you will, I see him making the jump from child star to adult actorin a way that Haley Joel Osment only dreams of.Appropriately, this third film in the Harry Potter series has maturedalon...

Genres: Adventure    Comedy   

Starring: John Cho, Ethan Embry, Robert Tinkler, Fred Willard, Kal Penn, ...

If two chicks sitting in stalls playing 'Battleshits' while the twoIndian and Asian 'heroes' hide between them suffering the sounds andsmells of scatological low humor sounds funny to you, then you shouldconsider seeing 'Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle.' My last stonermovie, the remake of 'Starsky and Hutch,' was indeed Sunday school bycontrast.Director Danny Leiner ('Dude, Where's My Car?') h...

Genres: Crime    Drama   

Starring: Antonio Cupo, Bianca Guaccero, Caprice Bourret, Vinnie Jones, Brad Renfro, ...

You've seen this one before. Several characters, mostly of the seedyvariety, intersect and interact with each other in the high desert,only to have some of them survive and some not in downtown L.A. Soundfamiliar? Looking for Uma Thurman or Charlize Theron, perhaps?Actually, this is an Italian quickie, shot in North America with amixed cast and a soundtrack half-English and half-Italian. The onlyr...

Genres: Comedy   

Starring: Matthew Modine, Saul Rubinek, Alan Bates, Joe Cobden, Deborah Kara Unger, ...

A mock documentary about a pair of Canadian producers, Bobby Myers(Matthew Modine) and Paul Linder (Saul Rubinek), trying to make theirfirst film in the late 1970s. Hollywood North is the comic tale oftheir struggle to pull everything together, despite a number ofconflicting threads.Hollywood North works as a film in a way very similar to why This IsSpinal Tap (1984) works so well. Namely, althoug...

Genres: Crime    Thriller   

Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Gary Oldman, Ray Liotta, Frankie Faison, ...

It's frustrating reading so many negative IMDb comments and mediareviews of "Hannibal", because the problems lie not with the filmitself but the expectations most take into their viewing of it. It isalso obvious that few critics and commentators are familiar with orfans of Thomas Harris' books; most have only seen the film version of"Silence of the Lambs" which, while very good, was a carv...

Genres: Adventure    Family    Fantasy    Mystery   

Starring: Richard Harris, Maggie Smith, Robbie Coltrane, Saunders Triplets, Daniel Radcliffe, ...

I enjoyed this movie immensely. But, like "The Phantom Menace," I've had avery hard time viewing it objectively. There was so much anticipationleading up to its release, I simply enjoyed the experience of being there.Having read all four books in the series a few times each, I am overlyfamiliar with the events in the story. As I watched the movie, mycontinuingthought was "How well will the next pa...

Genres: Drama    Romance   

Starring: Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Alan Bates, Paul Scofield, Ian Holm, ...

I'd put off viewing this version of "Hamlet" for a long time, becauseI'd heard that they'd turned this most cerebral of plays into an"action movie", but I ended up quite liking it.I should begin by saying that I approve of ALL interpretations, becauseeach choice reflects different possibilities all of which aresupportable by the text; no one vision can encompass every potentialityinherent in the p...

Genres: Crime    Thriller   

Starring: Aaran Thomas, Gaspard Ulliel, Li Gong, Helena-Lia Tachovská, Richard Leaf, ...

I went to a free screening of this movie tonight, Thursday December 12,2006 at the mall cause they gave out free passes at my work across thestreet.I wont give really much away...but the movie itself was great. Greatlocations, great acting--especially by Gaspard Ulliel as Hannibal. Iswear his acting was so good that it was scary and near perfect as thedemented Hannibal Lechter.The story about how ...

Genres: Adventure    Family    Fantasy    Mystery   

Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Harry Melling, Jason Boyd, Richard Macklin, Kathryn Hunter, ...

When I first walked into the movie, my expectations were not very high.The first two movies, I thought, were the best of the series mainly dueto Richard Harris' dead-on portrayal of Dumbledore and screenplays thatclosely followed the original books. Though the third and fourth movieswere very artistic and dramatic, I couldn't really connect to them inthe way i had with the books. They glos...

Genres: Comedy    Drama    Fantasy   

Starring: James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Peggy Dow, Charles Drake, Cecil Kellaway, ...

I have read that James Stewart considered Elwood P. Dowd his most personallysignificant role. In a career that spanned decades and included such greatworks at It's a Wonderful Life and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, choosingHarvey's friend, Elwood, as his personal favorite says something aboutrather powerful about Mr. Stewart and Mr. Dowd.James Stewart was a down to earth, decent man whose persona...