 Hardball |
This movies about a cynical underachiever (Keanu Reeves) whose life takes a turn for the better after he agrees to coach an inner city youth baseball team. |
| This time Jay and his silent partner Head off on a road trip
from New Jersey to California to save their reputations. It seems
their former friend Banky has sold them out, and sold their stories to
Hollywood, where they're making a very inaccurate movie that Jay & Bob
don't appreciate. Now, as the nasty rumors fly and Jay & Bob feel the
pressure to speak for themselves, it's off they go to give Banky and the
Hollywood moguls a piece of their minds.
Cameo appearances by Ben Affleck, Chris Rock, Shannon Elizabeth, George Carlin, Mark Hamill, & Carrie Fisher. |
 Jay & Silent
Bob Strike Back |
 Queen of the
Damned |
This "Vampire Chronicles" picture adopts a
distinctly different set of aesthetics from its predecessor. Pic opens in
the present, as Lestat awakens from a self-imposed century-long nap. The
world has changed: There's an entire subculture of gothic music and clubs
where a vampire might feel right at home----an aboveground netherworld of
living dead. A pleased Lestat sets out to take it by storm. Amusingly,
Lestat sets himself up as the lead singer of a goth-metal act and becomes
an overnight sensation. He breaks a centuries-old code of vampire secrecy
by announcing his true identity to the media and sets about living it up,
like a typical spoiled-brat rock star. He even has a much put-upon
personal assistant, chrged with rounding up juicy female flesh.
A parallel story about Jesse, A paranormal researcher who may have a secret family link to vampires, is less interesting. Lestat......................Stuart Townsend Akasha.....................Aaliayah Jesse Reeves........Marguerite Moreau |
| Wes Craven presents this chilling , modern-day version of
the classic vampire tale that stars Justine Waddell, Johnny Lee Miller,
and the legendary Christopher Plummer.
Welcome to the world of Abraham Van Helsing (Plummer). He deals in ancient artifacts and keeps his precious antiques locked in an impenetrable fortress. At least until a band of thieves breaks in and blows up the vault, which they believe holds an untold wealth of gold. But things go wrong very quickly when the robbers only find a silver coffin in the vault. They foolishly decide to take it with them anyway, and once they're settled in their get-away plane with the coffin in the cargo hold, they manage to get the coffin open, and get themselves hideously murdered by what emerges from inside. Now, with Van Helsing and his assistant (Miller) hot on Dracula's heels, the vampire - who in this movie turns out to be Judas Iscariot, betrayer of Jesus - leads them to the throbbing streets of New Orleans, where he is searching for Mary (Waddell), Van Helsing's beautiful daughter, and the only person other than Van Helsing who has Dracula's blood flowing through her veins. |
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 Rollerball |
The opening minutes are just goofy enough to set up
expectations for a fresh "Rollerball" that knows not to take
itself seriously - certainly not nearly as seriously as the original. Out
hero Jonathan( Chris Klein) and his unidentified opponent compete in a
death-defying luge race down the streets of San Francisco; then
Jonathan's buddy Marcus Riley ( LL Cool J).
Rebecca Romijn-Stamos and Jean Reno are also in this film. |
| Newcomer Justin Chambers stars as D' Artagnan and Mena Suvari is Francesca in this action-filled remake of the swashbuckling tale based on Alexander Dumas' novel of good and evil in 17th Century France. This time the young and restless hero sets off to find the king's elite guards, Royal Musketeers Aramis, Athos, & Porthos, in hopes of joining them to right the wrongs being perpetrated by evil politicians. Instead he finds three cynical dispirited men and a beautiful woman with whom he falls deeply in love. Action scenes choreographed by Hong Kong's Xin-Xin Xiong. | 
The Musketeer |
 The Fast & the
Furious |
Like solid, unpretentious Westerns did in a previous era, this story of speed-crazy grown-up kids trades shrewdly on many long-established movie conventions : Primal passions, elemental rivalries, testosterone-charged confrontations, youthful male preoccupation with top dog status, iconic posturing and behavior and the sheer excitement of action. |
| In 1875 Texas, land baron Richard Dukes (Tom Skerritt)
persuades consumptive widower Leanerder McNelly ( Dylan Mc Dermott) to
form the legendary law enforcement agency of the title, with an eye
towards thwarting the efforts of ruthless bandit John Fisher King ( Alfred
Molina) and his second- in command Ed Simms (Vincent Spano). Specifically,
King is engineering a series of raids on cattle ranchers, driving stolen
herds to Mexico, where he has a deal with corrupt general Cortinas (Joe
Renteria). Assisted by officers Armstrong (Robert Patrick) and Bones (Randy Travis), McNelly auditions men from the regions and ends up with a band of 30 green recruits that includes recently orphaned, Philadelphia-bred city slicker Lincoln Rogers Dunnison (James Van Der Beek), enthusiastically goofy ambush survivor George Durham (Ashton Kutcher), confident former slave Scipio ( Usher Raymond) Mexican horseman Jesus Sandoval (Marco Leonardi), painfully young Berry Smith (Jon Abrahams) and stuttering Suh Suh Sam ( Matt Keeslar). |
 Texas Rangers |
The Forsaken |
When Sean( Kerr Smith), decides to take time off and go to
his sister's wedding, the only way he can afford the trip is to deliver a
Mercedes to Florida, then use the money he earns to buy a ticket home from
the wedding.
Unfortunately, he breaks the cardinal rule of the delivery job: Don't pick up any hitchhikers! Shortly after getting a flat tire, and getting it repaired he meets Nick (Brendan Fehr), who offers to pay for the gas if Sean will get him to Houston. Thus Sean finds himself on a wild ride with a man who's actually a vampire hunter searching for the leader of the undead, so he can kill him and stop the "virus" that will turn him into a vampire too. When the two men rescue a girl's who's been infected after a run-in with a roving band of bloodsuckers, Sean also gets infected, and now he and Nick must trail a path of grisly murders in order to come face to face with Kit( Johnathon Schaech), the gangs leader, and the person they must kill if they are to remain human. |
| Jason ( Frankie Muniz) seems to be a bright,
14-year-old Michigan kid, but he has this bad habit of stretching the
truth, and downright lying, to just about everybody, especially
his mom ( Christine Tucci) and dad (Michael Bryan French). After he's
caught fibbing about a story assignment for a class taught by Mrs.
Caldwell (Sandra Oh), Jason is given one last chance. He bangs out a
short, seemingly personally inspired story titled "Big Fat
Liar", and rushes to deliver it to Caldwell.
En route, he bicycles right into the limo of Marty Wolf (Paul Giamatti), who intros himself by name followed by the phrase," famous Hollywood producer". One look ay the bulbous-eyed, goated Wolf and you know he's in trouble, but he sympathizes with Jason's propensity for lying, assuring him that "the truth is overrated". So, it seems, is good plotting, since this one has Jason leaving his all-important story in the limo. It gives Wolf whose recent pics have been stinkers the story idea he badly needs. Having lost his story, Jason must go to summer school. When he and his best friend Kaylee (Amanda Bynes) go to the movies and catch a trailer for an upcoming picture called "Big Fat Liar", Jason realizes that has joined the hallowed class of Bitter Ripped-Off Story Writers. |
 Big Fat Liar |
 Kung Pow : Enter
the Fist |
If it falls short doing for chopsocky cinema what "Airplane" did for the formerly friendly skies, neither is Steve Oedekerk's "Kung Pow : Enter the Fist" the unwatchable embarrassment Fox clearly thought it had when the studio delayed its release and declined to screen it for the press. |