In the opening scene of Pirates of The Caribbean: At World’s End, there is a long line of pirates (and those who have affiliated with pirates) heading towards the gallows in Port Royal. A small boy about to be hanged begins singing (and humorously enough has braces) and gets the other pirates to join […]

Sam Raimi’s third installment of the Spider-man franchise, in my opinion, stands by itself, not holding a similar structure to the two previous films. Spider-man and Spider-man 2’s composition seemed much more action based with an emotional story line built around it. With Spider-man 3 it appears to be just the opposite, the action […]

Finally. I actually get to talk about a film genre that’s so bad, so shocking, so offensive, and so outrageous, I still get to tell you it’s an important part of our film history. Directors Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino co-direct this picture in a double feature. To give you an […]

In the year 480 B.C., a group of Persian messengers arrive in the Greek city of Sparta. The messengers demand that the King of Sparta, Leonidas (Gerard Butler) surrender the city to their king, Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro). Leonidas visits the Oracle to question whether he should go to war. The priests, already bribed […]

Mark Steven Johnson’s Ghost Rider had been in the production phase since the year 2000. After struggling to find the lead, Nicholas Cage (who then later pushed production back even further to shoot other films), and fnding a script that they thought worked, the film was finally released in this year of 2007. I find […]

When I first heard the rumors about Pan’s Labyrinth I thought it might be a dark fairy tale much like P.J. Hogan’s live action Peter Pan(2003, though I also thought the film had something to do with Peter Pan), something happy and yet at the same time shrouded in darkness with a possible hint of […]

When I decided to go see Dreamgirls I knew there would be a lot of singing but the fact that the film itself was a musical made me all the more interested in seeing it. The film is adapted from the stage musical (that was adapted from a book) of the same name that debuted […]