Category: Movie Reviews

Cast: Adam Sandler, Christopher Walken, Kate Beckinsale, David Hasselhoff, Sean Astin Studio: Sony Rating: 5/10 CORPORATE LINE: Michael Newman (Adam Sandler) is married to the beautiful Donna (Kate Beckinsale) and they have two terrific kids, Ben (Joseph Castanon) and Samantha (Tatum McCann). But he doesn’t get to see them much because he’s putting in long,…

Cast: Sandra Bullock, Keanu Reeves Studio: WB Rating: 5/10 CORPORATE LINE: Feeling that it’s time for a change in her life, Dr. Kate Forster (SANDRA BULLOCK) leaves the suburban Illinois locale where she completed her residency and takes a job at a busy Chicago hospital. One thing she is reluctant to leave behind is the…

Cast: Jack Black, Hector Jimenez, Troy Gentile, Moises Arias, Lauro Chartrand Studio: Paramount Rating: 6.5/10 CORPORATE LINE: Nacho (Jack Black) is a man without skills. After growing up in a Mexican monastery, he is now a grown man and the monastery’s cook, but doesn’t seem to fit in. Nacho cares deeply for the orphans he…

Cast: Owen Wilson, Paul Newman, Bonnie Hunt, Richard Petty, Cheech Marin Studio: Disney Rating: 7/10 CORPORATE LINE: After taking moviegoers magically into the realm of toys, bugs, monsters, fish, and superheroes, the masterful storytellers and technical wizards at Pixar Animation Studios (“The Incredibles,” “Finding Nemo,” “Monsters, Inc.”), and Academy Award-winning director John Lasseter (“Toy Story,”…

Cast: Johnny Depp Studio: Disney Rating: 7/10 CORPORATE LINE: Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) returns to the screen for another round of supernatural adventures on the high seas in this spirited sequel to the 2003 Disney hit, which re-teams original director Gore Verbinski with original screenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio. As Will (Orlando Bloom)…

Cast: Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles Studio: Fox Rating: 4/10 CORPORATE LINE: Many believe the prophecy from the Book of Revelation provides a map to a terrifying future…or it presents fragments of history that have come to life in our time. The signs, they claim, are all around us: terrorist attacks, extreme weather… the list goes…

Cast: Jennifer Aniston, Vince Vaughn, Joey Lauren Adams Studio: Universal Rating: 3/10 CORPORATE LINE: Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston star in The Break-Up, which starts where most romantic comedies end: after boy and girl have met, fallen in love, moved in to start their happily-ever-after…and right when they wind up driving each other crazy. Pushed…

Cast: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen Studio: Fox Rating: 7/10 CORPORATE LINE: In X-MEN: THE LAST STAND, the final chapter in the “X-Men” motion picture trilogy, a “cure” for mutancy threatens to alter the course of history. For the first time, mutants have a choice: retain their uniqueness, though it isolates and alienates them,…

Cast: Bruce Willis, Steven Carrell, Garry Shandling Studio: Dreamworks Rating: 7/10 CORPORATE LINE: Just whose backyard is it, anyway? Spring has sprung, and Verne and his woodland friends awaken from their long winter’s nap to discover that a tall, green “thing” has mysteriously cropped up right through the middle of their home. Enter RJ, an…

Cast: Emmy Rossum, Kurt Russell, Joshua Lucas Studio: Warner Bros. Rating: 4/10 CORPORATE LINE: Its New Year’s Eve and festivities have begun aboard the luxury cruise Poseidon, at sea in the North Atlantic. One of the finest vessels of its kind, Poseidon stands more than 20 stories tall, boasts 800 staterooms and 13 passenger decks.…