Movie Reviews

The Sweeny

Director Nick Love Starring Damian Lewis, Hayley Atwell, Ray Winstone Rated MA Score 6/6 Armed and dangerous, the Flying Squad (rhyming slang Sweeney Todd) have their own unique way of operating, however, they always get the results. With a bank heist in progress and his old enemy making a re-appearance on the London crime scene,…

Time After Time

Director Nicholas Meyer Starring Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steenburgen, David Warner Rated M Score 6/6 H.G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper to the 20th Century when the serial murderer uses the future writer’s time machine to escape his time-period. Ok, for the record this one was suggested by the guy at the friendly neighbourhood DVD store.…

Antibody

Director Christian McIntire Staring Lance Henriksen, Robin Givens, William Zabka Rated M Score -1/6 After a terrorist with an implanted nuclear detonator gets shot, a team of scientists must defuse the bomb by miniaturizing themselves and going into his bloodstream. His organism’s antibodies start to mass against them. To NBCUniversal and the Executives in Charge…

Wing Commander

Director Chris Roberts Staring Freddie Prinze Jr., Matthew Lillard, Saffron Burrows Rated PG Score 2.5/6 Blair, a fighter pilot, joins an interstellar war to fight the evil Kilrathi who are trying to destroy the universe. Wing Commander is not a magnificent movie. At best, an average movie falls under the cloud of being adapted from…

Death Race: Inferno

Director Roel Reiné Staring Luke Goss, Tanit Phoenix, Danny Trejo Rated MA Score 2/6 Convicted cop-killer Carl Lucas, aka Frankenstein, is a superstar driver in the brutal prison yard demolition derby known as Death Race. Only one victory away from winning freedom for himself and his pit crew. You would be forgiven if you had…

Dark Tide

Director John Stockwell Staring Halle Berry, Olivier Martinez, Ralph Brown Rated M Score 1.5/6 A professional diver tutor returns to deep waters after 9 years, following an almost fatal encounter with a great white shark. The nightmare from the deep is still lurking – more carnivorous and hungry than ever. Initially I thought that Dark…

Django Unchained

Director Quentin Tarantino Staring Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson and Kerry Washington Rating MA Score 6/6 With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner. Ok, it has been a few days since I saw Django Unchained,…

Hotel Transylvania

Director Genndy Tartakovsky Staring Adam Sandler, Kevin James and Andy Samberg Rating PG Score 3/6 Dracula, who operates a high-end resort away from the human world, goes into overprotective mode when a boy discovers the resort and falls for the count’s teen-aged daughter. Okay, I was struck with an uneasy feeling while watching this one.…

Next of Kin

Director John Irvin Staring Patrick Swayze, Liam Neeson and Adam Baldwin Rated M Score 3/6 Truman, a Chicago cop, sets out to find the killer of his brother. Meanwhile, another of his brothers, Briar (a hillbilly) decides to find the killer himself. Next of Kin really is not the most impressive of movies. It has…

Boot Tracks

Director David Jacobson Staring Stephen Dorff, Michelle Monaghan and Willem Dafoe Rated M Score 1.5/6 Charlie Rankin, recently released from prison, seeks vengeance for his jail-house mentor William “The Buddha” Pettigrew. Along the way, he meets the ethereal, yet streetwise, Florence Jane. They embark on a unlikely road trip, careening towards an unlikely redemption and…