Monthly Archives: March 2000

THE APPOINTMENT

By | March 2000

Only solid performances and fine photography provide a small measure of tension and entertainment in this totally derivative, by-the-numbers would-be thriller…

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THE APPOINTMENT

It was vastly underrated singer/songwriter John Hiatt who once observed: "I'm just so easily led when the little head does the thinking." Lordy, ain't that...

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JUST, MELVIN

It appears James Ronald Whitney was a man looking for some closure in his life, from his family's painful history. One severely disturbing documentary...

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SHAFTED!

That the hero of this film is named John Shat and that he escaped from the Herve Villechaize School of Podiatry & Institute for the Criminally Insane...

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SCARY TEXAS MOVIE

During a strange electrical storm, in which the moon has mysteriously turned green, we meet a couple of cops, as jaded as the moon, and Felix, a well-to-do...

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LE IMPOSSIBLE DU MISSION

Okay, first off, the French is wrong. Then it's all downhill after that for this blatantly minor league knock-off of "Mission Impossible"...as if that lame...

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BLINK

Whatever happened to the freak show? It never died out. It just found a new home in television. TV likes to give us simple morality tales and easily...

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OUT OF SEASON

In a film featuring a romance between two lesbians, some may be ready to dispense with the more mundane points of film criticism and ask "Do they get it...

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LYSETS HJERTE (HEART OF LIGHT)

If you've ever been to one of those impressive, yet somehow depressing Bingo parlors on an American Indian Reservation, you get a sense of what havoc the...

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FINAL DESTINATION

For all those movie-goers tired of scary teen scream flicks filled with hot babes and studly dudes, New Line Cinema's "Final Destination" seeks to...

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CAMERA OBSCURA

Here's a flick that defies all expectations. Advance descriptions reveal only part of the story. This much is true: Our hero Jimmy (Adam Trese) is a...

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