Turn Out the Lights?
Are music corporations, with their emphasis on repetitive, easy-to-swallow sounds, quashing musical innovation? Are listeners demanding dumbed-down music? Is good music dead?
Several years ago,...
Training Day
Every big-budget action thriller needs a villain who artfully represents the audience's fear du jour. As Ryder, the subway-hijacking financial terrorist of Tony Scott's...
Big Fat Mess
A few years ago, a studio would've dropped a piece of dreck like My Life in Ruins into a graveyard movie month like March...
What Happens in Vegas…
Ever have one of those fits of hysterical laughter, when you're utterly terrified and yet somehow laughing instead of screaming? I had one of...
Sigh-orama
Confession time: I love summer movies. I grew up on Jurassic Park, Independence Day, and the first run of Batman movies. I'd rather watch...
Housing Balloon
The best part of Pixar's new movie Up comes early on. The film starts with its main character, Carl Fredericksen, as a little boy...
Disney’s World
His name "gets attention," said Andrew Disney, a Fort Worth native who's only distantly related to the famous Disneys. "People remember it. It's a...
I, Robot
The Terminator was about time-traveling robots from the future sent to kill an unborn child named John Connor before he could grow up...
Vacant Rooms
I'll admit it, Management got to me. To the naked eye, this low-budget film may look like a cookie-cutter Jennifer Aniston romantic comedy, and...
Fútbol Flop
It's hard to make a sports film with real originality. How do you resist the siren call of the genre's cliches: the tough but...
