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Release Date: July 21, 2006
Most Americans, upon finishing with their bowel movement, flush it down the toilet. M. Shyamalan, however, recently filmed one of his and gave it a musical score. The result can be seen in theaters right now, though I expect it will be of more interest to flies than to [...]

Release Date: July 21, 2006 (limited)
Shadowboxer stars Cuba Gooding Jr., Helen Mirren (Calendar Girls) and Stephen Dorff. It took me awhile to write this review because reflecting on the film it’s so F’d up, but in a good way. I still keep thinking of the many disturbing scenes and relationships that the story portrays and [...]

Release Date: July 25, 2006
I can almost hear the inner monologue in Rob Corddry’s brain while preparing for this project; “Steve Carell was successful in a leading role. Jon Stewart has made some decent movies. Why can’t I do the same?” The only thing Corddry didn’t consider was the fact that he is not Steve [...]

Here is a film that I can really get excited about. Set to hit theaters in October, Martin Scorsese’s The Departed is a story of two cops who are living two seperate lives and blurring the line between good guy and bad guy. The scariest part is that they are both tied up with the [...]

Release Date: July 28, 2006
If Michael Mann has shown over the years that he has a lot of any one thing as a filmmaker, it has been that he has style; lots of style. His films are distinctive in the fact that they are so flashy. The gorgeous women, the fast cars, the pastel colors [...]

M. Night Shyamalan is a great director, but even he could not turn this unique story into anything worth seeing. The plot disappoints and the acting is subpar, leaving M. Night fans a little jaded in the end.

Any spoof or parody can come off really bad…i.e. Date Movie. But when the right comic minds come together you can be sure that laughter, tears and maybe even some accidental urinating will ensue.
Farce of The Penguins is a mocumentary parody of last year’s Oscar friendly documentary March of The Penguins. Farce will be directed [...]

Richard Linklater’s Scanner is a haunting but visually stunning depiction of what America on drugs could be in the future.

Release Date: July 11th, 2006
Over the past few decades the money hungry mega studios of Hollywood have been thrusting feature after feature into our paths, all of which are made, as it seems, for the sole purpose of selling tickets and popcorn. Since the 1970s, which included releases like Jaws and Star Wars, we have [...]

Release Date: June 30th, 2006

niche: n. A special area of demand for a product or service.
I site the definition for the word niche because of the fact that it will be a very pivotal word in the description of the 20th Century Fox Release The Devil Wears Prada, and I will be using [...]

Infamous, which will be premiering at the Venice Film Festival on August 31, is a film that documents Truman Capote’s journey to Kansas that eventually led him to write his bestselling novel In Cold Blood. Sound familiar? It should, because that film already won Philip Seymour Hoffman an Oscar. So I guess the question to [...]

Release Date: July 7, 2007
I often wonder to myself, “Why do people go to the movies? What really brings us back time and time again?” Over the years I have found myself drawn to three different reasons. Some people look to movies to provide some kind of insight, or to provoke deep thoughts. Others enjoy [...]

It is always a daunting task, is it not? Picking out a movie to see with your sweetheart. As I discussed a few weeks ago, there are some theatrical releases that will get you put in the doghouse (I would reference any of the three Terminator flicks) and there are some that will get you [...]