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Lemony Snicket

Lemony Snicket

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is based on the series of popular children's stories, although I'd like to make it abundantly clear that parents should exercise extreme caution before taking their little ones to see this picture. It is dark, a tad morbid, and extremely depressing. Ha... [More]

Written By: Adam Mast
The Life Aquatic

The Life Aquatic

The Life Aquatic employs all the elements we've come to expect from a Wes Anderson picture - cynicism, sarcasm, irony, eccentricities, quirky humor, a touch of whimsy, and a cold chill. What it doesn't do however, is tell a cohesive or compelling story. In this odd tale, Bill Murray is Steve Ziss... [More]

Written By: Adam Mast
Spanglish

Spanglish

Spanglish is the latest effort from the outstanding James L. Brooks who, in addition to fashioning TV landmarks such as The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and Taxi, has also delivered some terrifically insightful character studies like Broadcast News and As Good As It Gets. This time, he attempts what many... [More]

Written By: Adam Mast
Phantom of The Opera

Phantom of The Opera

The Phantom of the Opera finally makes it to the big screen after all these years, and the biggest compliment I can pay it, is that it is faithful to Andrew Lloyd Webber's smash hit musical. Sadly though, seeing it in movie form made me realize how overrated it truly is, and this is coming from some... [More]

Written By: Adam Mast & Paul Heath
Ocean's 12

Ocean's 12

Ocean's Eleven proved to be a very big hit back in 2001, and the prospects of a sequel were inevitable. Of course given the magnitude of the cast, it is somewhat a surprise that Steven Soderbergh was able to get everyone back, and I do mean everyone. In this slick follow-up, Andy Garcia's Terry B... [More]

Written By: Adam Mast
Blade: Trinity

Blade: Trinity

Blade: Trinity is a picture I was sort of looking forward to. I thought the first film was moderately enjoyable, but was really impressed by Guillermo del Toro's relentless follow-up. I suppose the big draw for me this time around was the idea that the writer of all three installments - comic book a... [More]

Written By: Adam Mast
The Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice

Before starting this review, I'm going to have to put my hands up and say that I have never had the opportunity of seeing a Shakespeare play on stage. Being a film fan/critic, my only experiences of the Bard are in movies like Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, Hamlet etc plus the ob... [More]

Written By: Paul Heath
Sideways

Sideways

Sideways is a stunning achievement for writer director Alexander Payne, an insightful film maker who fashioned the picture perfect high school expose with Election as well as the funny but ultimately heartbreaking character study About Schmidt. The new film Sideways is based on a book by Rex Pick... [More]

Written By: Adam Mast
Kinsey

Kinsey

Kinsey is an endlessly fascinating exploration into nearly every possible facet of sexual behavior you can imagine. But just as the famous doctor, the film deals with this risque subject matter in an intellectual manner. To my utmost surprise, much of the film shocked me with it's frankness, which i... [More]

Written By: Adam Mast
Finding Neverland

Finding Neverland

Finding Neverland put a great big lump in my throat, something very few films this year have managed to do. It is easily the least cynical movie of 2004 and puts forth the same sort of emotional charge that In America did over a year ago. It's also a much more capable celebration of childhood and in... [More]

Written By: Adam Mast
Christmas With The Kranks

Christmas With The Kranks

Christmas With the Kranks is an ugly, disposable holiday lump of coal that goes for warm and fuzzy but winds up cold and prickly. The film is based on a novel by John Grisham of all people, and while I credit the writer for finally attempting something new (his tales of "bushy tailed, wide eyed, und... [More]

Written By: Adam Mast
Spongebob Square Pants

Spongebob Square Pants

SpongeBob SquarePants is my kids' cartoon of choice. There's absolutely no doubt about that. What's really special about the show though, is that my wife and I love it almost as much as they do. And this seems to be the case with many other parents, and as an end result, Spongebob has become one of... [More]

Written By: Adam Mast
Seed of Chucky

Seed of Chucky

Seed of Chucky is a movie I was looking forward to with open arms. Allow me to ramble a bit before I get to the actual review. I have a proud history with Child's Play that goes back to early 1988. Several months before the film was scheduled for release, I had an opportunity to see a rough cut scre... [More]

Written By: Adam Mast
Birth

Birth

Birth caused quite a stir at a couple of different film festivals earlier this year. Why all the hoopla? Your guess is as good as mine. There is one scene in the picture that is mostly responsible for the majority of the controversy and when I finally saw it, I was quite shocked. Not because I was d... [More]

Written By: Adam Mast
National Treasure

National Treasure

National Treasure is a silly, plodding, second rate fusion of Indiana Jones and, from what I'm told, The Davinci Code (I haven't read it so I can't confirm that one). The film comes courtesy of action producer extraordinaire Jerry Bruckheimer. This movie would have us believe that the Declaration... [More]

Written By: Adam Mast