MEGAMIND
Whether or not the screenwriters, director, cast or crew were consciously aware that they were participating in a piece of…
Propaganda
GREEN ZONE
Back-slapping soldiers approve of Bush’s brief victory lap from the safety of their cushy protected Iraq home. If they only…
MIDNIGHT EXPRESS — CLASSIC FILM PICK
Despite the negative hullabaloo “Midnight Express” provoked for its brutal characterization of Turkish prison officials, director Alan Parker’s rendering of…
GREEN ZONE
One of many other such glaring flaws is the utter lack of kinship between Officer Miller and his men, or…
EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES
“Extraordinary Measures” is like corporate rock but worse. It’s a Big Pharma propaganda piece committed with a bloated musical score…
BATTLEFIELD EARTH
“Battlefield Earth,” based on a crappy 1982 sci-fi novel by cult religion dipshit L. Ron Hubbard, is so inept and…
BLACK HAWK DOWN
For all of its gritty super-war-action, the film’s characters remain flat, and its narcissistic patriotic ending fails to mitigate the…
SAVING PRIVATE RYAN
We all know that Steven Spielberg is the real “King of the World,” Tom Hanks is the Pope and Matt…
THE GOLDEN COMPASS
The hullabaloo surrounding any “anti-religious” theme to Philip Pullman’s 1995 “His Dark Materials” trilogy (the title is taken from Milton’s…
THE KINGDOM
There’s a lot of bang for the buck in director Peter Berg’s juiced-up “what-if” illustration of a U.S. Special Forces…
THE KINGDOM
There’s a lot of bang for the buck in director Peter Berg’s juiced-up “what-if” illustration of a U.S. Special Forces…
SEPTEMBER DAWN
The director’s overreaching attempts at social commentary with hackneyed devices weaken the veracity of the source material and leave the…
LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD
A saved-by-the-cavalry ending caps off the drawn out excursion in modern day super action with an obvious dose of rah…
WORLD TRADE CENTER
Oliver Stone has gone against his trademark lefty identity to make a syrupy and gruelingly flat cinematic ode to two…
WORLD TRADE CENTER
Oliver Stone has gone against his trademark lefty identity to make a syrupy and gruelingly flat cinematic ode to two…
AMERICA: FROM FREEDOM TO FASCISM
“America: Freedom To Fascism” captures America’s current gloom and doom zeitgeist with plenty of controversial ideas to send any dinner…
UNITED 93
“United 93” is an odd film by any standard. Filmmaker Paul Greengrass (notable for his terrific 2002 docudrama “Bloody Sunday”…
UNITED 93
“United 93” is an odd film by any standard. Filmmaker Paul Greengrass (notable for his terrific 2002 docudrama “Bloody Sunday”…
ANNAPOLIS
“Annapolis” is a boxing movie cloaked as a feature-length commercial for the famous Naval Academy training facility of the film’s…
COLE SMITHEY’S CLASSIC CINEMA
