Sci-Fi Fantasy
Night Watch
Russian Supernatural Horror. Okay, this is a vampire movie that has some cool moments in...
Underworld: Evolution
Supernatural Horror. A sequel about Vampires versus werewolves that quite frankly, I could not describe...
King Kong
Epic Action adventure. The remake of the famous story about the huge ape who falls...
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
Mythological fantasy. A phenomenal adaptation of the C.S. Lewis classic. In fact, I would say...
Just Friends
Romantic Comedy. Obese high schooler grows up, gets hot and successful, comes back home 10...
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Children’s fantasy. Five children receive lottery type tickets to tour the world’s most amazing Chocolate...
Three Extremes
Japanese horror trilogy. Two of the stories were just too esoteric for me to appreciate....
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Boring British stuff. Although it has my favorite character name of all time, Zaphod Beeblebrox....
A Sound of Thunder
Not Recommended. This is a movie based on the famous short story about time travel...
The Brothers Grimm
Partially recommended. This Terry Gilliam creation has a fictional version of the brothers who created...
Sky High
Recommended. This is a live action version of The Incredibles, and I loved it. And...
The Island
Recommended. Okay, Michael Bay, formula action movie with tons of non-sequitur action sequences. But so...
Fantastic Four
Ambivalent Recommendation. I say ambivalent because, while on the one hand, I enjoy comic book...
War of the Worlds
Not recommended. Another humanistic epic that destroys transcendence and in so doing, destroys the goodness...
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Not Recommended. A gazillion dollar extravagant waste of two and a half hours. Yeah! It’s...
The Jacket
Recommended with Caution. A thought-provoking postmodern film that uses the questioning of reality and dreaming...
Constantine
Recommended with qualifications. Constantine is a mixed bag of good and bad theology with high...
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events
Not Recommended. I put this into the category of boring expensive kid’s films like Harry...
Finding Neverland
Hard to Recommend. This is a complex one. This film is really quite brilliant, and...
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Not really recommended. This is a popcorn action flick without much heart or soul. Looks...
Alien Vs. Predator
No recommended. Not much to this sci-fi action cat and mouse film. It’s more of...
I, Robot
Recommended. This movie is a rather predictable and somewhat boring action movie. But it is...
Spiderman 2
Recommended for it’s morality, but not so much for it’s story. I say this because,...
The Chronicles of Riddick
Not Recommended. Boy, Action movies with heros who are fearless, invulnerable and seem to exist...
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Not Recommended. Boring. Stupid. The heros are so soulless and uninteresting, you actually start to...
Shrek 2
Recommended for adults. Funny. Very funny. A good sequel, which is hard to do. It...
The Day After Tomorrow
Recommended mostly for the Special Effects. Standard disaster movie fare. A pretty good subplot of...
Van Helsing
Not recommended. I liked the idea of this movie, that Van Helsing, the infamous vampire...
Hellboy
Recommended. Good ole fashioned clarity of good and evil in a morally confused era. Bad...
The Butterfly Effect
Not Really Recommended. An interesting take on the Chaos theory notion that the smallest change...
Paycheck
Not Recommended. Pretty formulaic conspiracy story about seeing the future. Compared to Phillip Dick’s other...
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
Highly Recommended (Did you have any doubt??) What can I say about this movie to...