Category: flicks

Well, I don’t know what the hell they’re talking about in this “Explosive Extended Edition” DVD, since I selected said special edition to watch when the menu came up before the movie, and aside from poorly executed “bookend” scenes before and after the film proper, I didn’t see anything new that qualified as remotely “explosive.”…

A really remarkably smart film about cheerleaders robbing a bank. Only it’s not really about the robbery— It’s about the girls and their friends and “enemies,” and all the stupid little catty and somehow wonderful things that are part of high school. Okey, maybe they’re not wonderful while they’re happening, but it’s nice to see…

I came into this flick because AAl recommended it, and because it was directed/produced and acted in by several members of The State comedy troupe (several other members have gone on to such TV gems as Viva Variety and Reno 911). AAl loaned me tapes of their sketch show that appeared on MTV, and I…

I remember… maybe… watching this once at someone else’s house, but perhaps not paying full attention. Of course, I was much younger then. Now I look back on this as… well, a bit of harmless fun, though slow to start, got decent toward the end. It was fun seeing a younger Joey Pants with Anne…

Like all the other reviewers have said, the first Harry Potter movie with an actual soul. Also the first one without John Cleese as Nearly Headless Nick (a relief, in as much as I love Mr. Cleese, that character was really annoying it its… well, lack of soul), and the first one that I got…

In some ways, yeah, a rip-off of Aliens, but this movie has the added element of trying to make you root for a murderer, and killing off just about everyone you might have a tiny amount of concern for before the end. The effects were decent, and Vil Deisel does have the creepy mirrored eyeballs,…

I remembered this fondly from my high school days, but more remarkable now for the fact that the lead character, a high school cheerleader, was actually not in her mid-twenties when they filmed it. The effects range from hokey to ewwwwwww!!, and the cold war government conspiracy angle still plays pretty well. All in all,…