“Crazy/Beautiful” (2001) is one of the elite entries in the subgenre of cute and rich teen girls being provocative to see what they can get
Bridging Gen-X teen comedies and millennial teen comedies was the period from roughly 1996-2006 featuring Shakespeare-based teen comedies. Although these films starred millennials (often Julia
“Drop Dead Gorgeous” (1999) goes to town making fun of beauty pageants like a sugar-infused kid attacking a pinata. Since I know nothing about pageants
“The Crow: Salvation” (2000) is the third straight “Crow” film where I see objective filmmaking and storytelling problems, yet I still kind of like it.
Making a great fictional tennis movie is a tall order. The sport is naturally cinematic and filled with personal drama, and there’s no way made-up
“Spider-Man 3” (2007) packs too many villains and character threads into the last chapter of the saga starring Tobey Maguire. Many of these elements are
From the opening credits that recap the first film’s narrative with pencil drawings to the closing moments of Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst) deciding to give
I thought “Spider-Man” (2002) was run-of-the-mill when I saw it in theaters, but I got into it more on this rewatch. It’s a down-the-middle origin story
Writer David Mamet – with Barry Levinson directing – switches his focus from the small cons of “House of Games” and the like to the
“Elizabethtown’s” existence in 2005 ticked me off, since, as a huge “Garden State” fan, I felt it was ripping off that film’s plot of a