Is this really what it’s like to live a sheltered life?
Last year I saw a film that centered on fractured familial relationships. In this movie there is a widowed mother who is starved for attention, a son who is overly protective of his mother and doesn't want to see her end up with the wrong man, and a potential suitor who is seen as the wrong man by said son. It's a movie that lives in…

Stimulating and easy to watch.
Written by Pollo MisteriosoThere has been a new genre of dance films that seem to be doing very well at the box office, and to think they play like 90-minute music videos. Step Up 2 The Streets is the newest dance film that incorporates dance troupes and drama that makes for a visually entertaining film that is predictable, but gratifying. Films…

Pretentious, ridiculous and downright terrible.
With things like The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable on his resume you have to hope that writer/director M. Night Shyamalan, when given basically a blank slate to create a movie, could come up with something inspiring and enthralling. Unfortunately the descriptions that apply to the mess that is Lady in the Water are more along the lines of…

Shark Week on Discovery Channel kicks off with a special episode of Mythbusters!
Mythbusters, for those not in the know, is a show on Discovery Channel with two stars, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, who are Hollywood special effects gurus based in San Francisco. They take their experience (over 30 years worth combined) and use it to test and prove or disprove popular myths. Originally, the series only focused on these two men,…

Not quite ready for an intervention…
I guess I didn’t get the memo. I tuned in, somewhat by accident, somewhat out of curiosity, to the premier of The Cleaner, starring Benjamin Bratt, A&E’s new series about a former addict who spends (most of) his life trying to “persuade” other addicts (usually by kidnapping them and putting them in rehab) to give up the…

Bland acting and weak continuity still can’t ruin this rousing action-adventure based on the Jules Verne novel.
Brendan Fraser and Josh Hutcherson star in Journey to the Center of the Earth, based on the famous Jules Verne book of the same name. “Vernians” will love the book’s prominent incorporation into the plot while general audiences will enjoy a satisfying, “low stress” experience with a minimal cast of characters.In this…

A so-so spin on the classic sci-fi tale.
The first of what would be countless screen adaptations of this Jules Verne story, this 1959 version of Journey to the Center of the Earth offers some unique sights from its sets, although not much else. Its stand-in iguana dinosaurs, plodding pace, and cardboard characters do little to make audiences want to take this journey with them. The…

In order to dribble their way towards NBA glory, eight players take it to the hoop in Beastie Boy turned filmmaker Adam Yauch’s new film.
To misquote a memorable lyric from Beastie Boy turned filmmaker Adam Yauch, when it comes to dribbling towards NBA glory, eight of the twenty-four high schoolers prominently featured in his latest doc Gunnin’ for That #1 Spot, take it to the hoop because they can’t, they won’t, and they don’t stop until they come to Rucker…