Someday somebody will make a great film about Che Guevara, but this isn’t it.
Written by El ConquistadorkoChe Guevara: Where You'd Never Imagine Him, a 108-minute documentary by Cuban director Manuel Perez purports to be a surprise-filled expose of the famous Argentinean revolutionary, but it's little more than a propaganda piece that shamelessly aims to use Guevara's legacy to bolster Castro regime's…

The Apatow comedy crew descends further into sophomoric vulgarity and squanders whatever drama they attempt to explore.
It was bound to happen at some point. The younger the characters in Judd Apatow’s comedy universe, the greater the temptation would become for the guys to use it as an excuse to deliver every single dirty, filthy phrase they can think of. Now that the main characters are teenagers in Superbad, they have free rein to go for the cheapest…

So. Not. Cool.
We were on our knees. We were literally on our knees. Last year, Zoey 101 aired their first TV movie, "Spring Break-Up". The movie basically dealt with the relationship between Zoey (Jamie Lynn Spears) and Chase (Sean Flynn). Chase had been crushing for Zoey for two years. Best friend Michael (Chris Massey) kept bugging Chase to tell Zoey…

Another dull splatter fest in a series that has never acknowledged its source material.
Why make a video game movie if you’re barely going to acknowledge anything in said video game? That’s been the problem with the Resident Evil franchise from the start as it picks pieces from the game and crafts a completely random story around them. Extinction offers the best action of the three, but the story is uninteresting and the characters…

It could have been a richer meditation on life, but it ends up trading in on Nicholson?s and Freeman?s personas rather than rejuvenating them.
They ought to make a special lifetime achievement award for Morgan Freeman as Best Wise Mentor in the movies, as directors tap on him again and again to open and close their films with his narrations of witty and pithy maxims. Rob Reiner gets his chance now with The Bucket List, as Freeman’s narration talks about another man whom he says lived more…

This is a good film from the new director and screenplay writer, but not a great one.
When I first saw this film listed as Spains’ entry in the category of Best Foreign Language Film for the Academy Awards on the grid at the New York Film Festival (September 2007), I was excited to see “Guillermo Del Toro presents” tagged to its title. My first thought was about the film Pan’s Labyrinth and what a statement it made in the 2006 world…

Caution: Spoilers
I am having a real problem with this writer's strike. Almost all my shows are in reruns and I get sick of watching the same episode of Hannah Montana over and over. So, out of complete boredom, my family turned on the season premiere of Celebrity Apprentice. It was pretty good actually. But, it did look pretty easy. I think I'd be good on…

Viable classic or just a flash in the pan?
Written by Caballero Oscuro Once was the little film with big exposure last year, garnering glowing praise during its theatrical run and a considerable marketing push for its DVD release. Now that the masses have easy access to view it on DVD, its true test comes as a viable classic or just a flash in the pan. Although seemingly advertised as a…

2008 starts with something of a whimper.
Say goodbye to 2007 and hello to 2008. It is January, the holiday festivities are done and it is time to get back to the grind. You know what that means. It means that for the next month we will be subjected to lower-tier films mixed with December Oscar-fodder as those films expand into more theaters. The result of this intermingling of qualities…