They say that time heals all wounds. Well, apparently it heals mediocre movies as well.

Set in a small town, the film is populated by cardboard cutouts of your standard archetypes: the religious fundamentalist, the haughty fella from the city (black, natch), the reckless small-town simpleton, etc. etc.

Based on the 1954 science fiction novel by Richard Matheson, Robert Neville (Will Smith) is the last man living in New York City…

Burton, from Sondheim’s source material (a helluva score), does a heck of a job balancing the unwinking bloodletting with a bit of dark comedy.

Last year, it was Martin Scorcese that rocked the gangster-movie lover’s hearts with a duel between a mobster-cop and a cop-mobster. This year, another brilliant director, takes his turn to honor the genre.

When will science ever learn?

Tim Burton and Johnny Depp go together like black and blue, or like fire and ash. Amidst the chaos, there is a unique unison between the two conflicting forces.

If you get a chance to see this near-masterpiece, please don’t let the NC-17 rating give you a second moment’s thought (unless you’re under 17 of course).

After movies like Garfield and Underdog trampled over the memories of the original stories, I feared that a big-budget, CGI-animated film about the lovable chipmunks will turn out the same way.

The big question is: Is I Am Legend good enough to stand on it’s own? The answer is yes.

Will Smith stars in the third try at a big screen adaptation of Richard Matheson’s famous novel. This time, at least they got to use the right title.

Atonement is a beautiful disaster.

This article was written by guest author Anthony Coe. You would think that after four of anything, it would get old and stale. The fourth movie in the Die Hard series Live Free or Die Hard delivers from the first minute and doesn’t rely on old tag lines. Okay so there is one “Yippee-Kah-Yay”. But by the time he gets around to saying it, it’s more for old time sake. No surprise the movie follows the same plot line as the previous releases. Terrorist are set on taking over the world and John McClane (Bruce Willis) is in the wrong place at the wrong time, just so he can save us all from a certain doom. Yes, his marriage is over and yes his daughter, Lucy McClane (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), hates him. The plot is set in the present Post-911 era. The movie is based on an article which appeared in the May 1997 Issue 5.05 of Weird Magazine A Farewell to Arms, written by John Carlin. This Pre-911 article states that the real threat from terrorist isn’t from a nuclear bomb, but is in the form of cyber-terrorism. If a terrorist organization can break into our infra structure they can bring us to a stand still in a matter of days. John McClane must team up with a super hacker Matt Farrell (Justin Long), who unknowingly wrote part of the code for the terrorist. Together they must track down the terrorist and stop them from turning the nation’s computers [Due to Content Scraping and Theft, we have been forced to try abbreviated feeds. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and woud very much appreciate you clicking through to view the full article on FilmSchoolRejects.com]

Autobots, roll out.

Back in 1993 when I was just a young pup, a movie buff in the making if you will, my mom took me to our local cineplex in mid-June to see what would become the most awesome event movie of its time. It was a film that stretch the realm of my imagination and gave me the belief that filmmakers could make absolutely anything come to life. I was engrossed in it. I wanted to see it again, and again, and again. In that moment, my young life was changed by a cinematic adventure like nothing I had ever seen before. That film was Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park. Now some 14 years later, as I sit down to review Transformers, another epic summer blockbuster from Director Michael Bay, I cannot help but think, “Wow, this is what summer movies are all about.”

This article was written by guest author Noel Petok. This movie has it all: controversy, powerful acting, nudity, and deaths that will have you wincing in pain. After a viewing of American History X, other than marveling over the powerhouse storyline, all you will be thinking is “What a performance,” by actor Edward Norton. To say this film is “good” is an immense understatement. True, it is heart-wrenching and disturbing, but will leave you in awe with one word in mind: WOW! This ranks up with those must-see-films that will stay with you for the rest of your life. Back in 1999, surprisingly, this film only received one Academy Award nomination for Edward Norton’s impacting performance as a Neo-Nazi skinhead named Derek Vinyard. It marked Whoopi Goldberg’s third time hosting the yearly spectacle full of glitz and glamour. The more noticeable films that got more praise and larger audiences were Shakespeare in Love with thirteen nominations, Saving Private Ryan with eleven nominations, and Life is Beautiful (Italian title: La vita ¨ bella) with seven nominations. That was a year that was full of surprises with Shakespeare in Love stealing the Best Picture award from the expected Saving Private Ryan and Roberto Benigni winning the coveted Best Actor award for his portrayal in “his” film Life Is Beautiful from the ever so popular Tom Hanks in the epic Saving Private Ryan. The show is a once a year event to see even if it did drag, this particular year, a shade [Due to Content Scraping and Theft, we have been forced to try abbreviated feeds. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and woud very much appreciate you clicking through to view the full article on FilmSchoolRejects.com]

In this summer of sequels we have learned many things. One thing in particular is the fact that you don’t necessarily have to make a good movie in order to make a lot of money. Case in point, Spider-Man 3; a steaming pile of suck that broke box office records like they were going out of style. Since Spider-Man‘s notorious release and subsequent “success”, we have seen a host of other mediocre sequels, including Shrek 3 and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. It has been Hollywood’s way of training us to not get our hopes up, but to buy our tickets anyway. With that in mind, enter Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer into the mix.

Wake up and find out what the hell yesterday was about. I’m not too keen on tommorow, and today’s slipping by.

Spider-Man 3 was a huge disappointment; Shrek the Third was just okay; and now, finally we have Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End in our grasp and it has to have us wondering that maybe we should have started our summer here in the first place…

Over two previous films, Shrek has had to learn to live with being the King. With the first Shrek film in 2001, the big green ogre became the King of all the animated creatures in Hollywood’s forest as he was thrust into the lives of millions of children across America and the world. Now with Shrek the Third, Shrek is forced to take on the role of being King of Far, Far Away… His toughest challenge yet.