Movie Review: Disturbia (2007)

Although not an original idea (see Hitchcock: Rear Window), Disturbia has some interesting characters and plot twists.  Shia LaBeouf is a disturbed teenager who is sentenced to house arrest and witnesses (or imagines) a murder in his neighbor’s house. ...

Movie Review: Ocean’s Thirteen (2007)

Ocean’s Thirteen is the third in a series of con films beginning with Ocean’s Eleven and Ocean’s Twelve.  Ocean (played by George Clooney) organizes a group of grifters and attempts to swindle a casino owner. Excellently produced and every bit as...

Movie Review: Hot Fuzz (2007)

Bloody Hilarious Hot Fuzz is a British comedy brought to you by the director and writer of Shaun of the Dead, this movie is drop-dead hilarious and wonderfully well-produced.  One of the funniest movies I’ve seen in a long time, Hot Fuzz serves up that dry humor...

Movie Review: Spider-Man 3 (2007)

Gayness Personified Spider-man 1 didn’t trip my trigger and Spider-man 2 slightly redeemed the series.  But Spider-man 3 was the gayest of all three.  With such cheap tricks as an unexplained meteorite, short-term amnesia and hullaballoo science via a particle...

Movie Review: Rocky Balboa

I finally watched the final intallment in the Rocky movie series, Rocky Balboa .  At first I hesitated because how good can the sixth of a tired-out movie series be?  But then I read that Sylvester Stallone wrote this one and that he wanted the characters to...

Movie Review: Borat Not Funniest Movie Ever

I finally saw the Borat movie a few weeks ago and although I laughed pretty hard at parts of it, I must confess that it wasn't a great movie. I'm pretty much a movie snob, flicks like Fargo and The Fisher King and Memento are what turn me on. But occasionally,...