Review: "Funny People" |
Judd Apatows new film Funny People stars Adam Sandler, but (thankfully) its not your typical Sandler vehicle. Unlike the typical Sandler film, Funny People is a real movie. Rather than just an e...
Posted by on Sat, 01 Aug 2009 20:57:00 GMT |
Review: "The Ugly Truth" |
On paper the strategy behind the film The Ugly Truth sounds like a winner. Screenwriters Nicole Eastman, Karen McCullah Lutz, and Kirsten Smith wrote a formulaic by-the-numbers romantic comedy sure ...
Posted by on Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:50:00 GMT |
Review: "Public Enemies" |
In a summer blockbuster season filled with Terminators and stupid CGI robot battles its nice to see a film like Public Enemies rolling off the assembly line. Judging from the trailers it looked to ...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:06:00 GMT |
Review: "Transformers: Rise of the Fallen" |
Director Michael Bay ( Pearl Harbor ) has long been the joke of the film industry. In the film Team America Trey Parker even went so far as to ask, Why does Michael Bay still get to make movies? S...
Posted by on Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:40:00 GMT |
Review: "The Taking of Pelham 123" |
With The Taking of Pelham 123 Hollywood has come one step closer to its apparent goal of remaking (and ultimately destroying) every cinematic memory of my childhood. I was only one when Joseph Sarge...
Posted by on Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:31:00 GMT |
Review: "The Hangover" |
Having made Old School and Road Trip, director Todd Phillips is no stranger to comedies about a group of friends on a drinking binge. However, his latest film, The Hangover, is curiously differe...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:01:00 GMT |
Review: "Up" |
It seems like every year Pixar brings us another animated masterpiece like Toy Story, Finding Nemo, or Wall-E. With the arrival of their tenth film, Up, a movie with a ridiculous-sounding plot...
Posted by on Fri, 29 May 2009 11:32:00 GMT |
Review: "Terminator Salvation" |
The original Terminator and its first sequel, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, are classic science-fiction films. A well-versed movie buff can easily point to dozens of memorable scenes from those film...
Posted by on Thu, 21 May 2009 00:20:00 GMT |
Review: "Star Trek" |
Over the past decade the releases of lackluster sequels and spin-offs had put the future of the once mighty Star Trek franchise in jeopardy. Then, two years ago, the powers that be announced that th...
Posted by on Thu, 07 May 2009 22:53:00 GMT |
BOOK NUMBER TEN! |
I am pleased to announce that I just sold my tenth book, "I Am Hip-Hop," to Scarecrow Press. This book, which is being written with David Walker and Michael Dequina, will be a collection of original i...
Posted by on Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:43:00 GMT |
