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The Skulls

The Skulls

There are bad films (Next Best Thing springs to mind) and then there's The Skulls, a dreadful excuse of a movie that belongs in an "Ivy" league all it's own. Dawson Creek's Joshua Jackson stars a student who desperately wants to be a part of the Skulls, a sort of secret fraternal society that pa... [More]

Written By: Adam Mast
Keeping The Faith

Keeping The Faith

Few actors have made their mark as quickly as Edward Norton. He seemed to come out of nowhere with his sinister turn as a schizophrenic in Primal Fear. Since, he's turned up as the crusading lawyer in The People Vs. Larry Flynt, a reformed skinhead in American History X, a sleazy gambler in Rounde... [More]

Written By: Adam Mast
Frequency

Frequency

It's Backdraft to the Future when a New York Cop (Jim Caviezel) circa 1999, is able to communicate with his firefighting father (Dennis Quaid) who is happily living in the year 1969. We are soon to learn that Quaid is fated to die in an accident two days hence, and it's the son's quest to alter the... [More]

Written By: Adam Mast
U-571

U-571

A few years back, I had nothing but praise for the thriller Breakdown, starring Kurt Russell. I admired it's simplicity, intensity, and taut pace. Director Jonathan Mostow returns with this rousingly old fashioned and suspenseful war picture, U-571. Matthew McConaughey heads an American vessel t... [More]

Written By: Adam Mast
Time Code

Time Code

With film audiences getting hungry for new cinematic techniques, it's hard for film-makers to satisfy them. Director Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas) does something completely innovative with his new film Timecode, that will have the audience glued to the screen for the full running time. Timecod... [More]

Written By: Adam Mast
Rules of Engagement

Rules of Engagement

Director William Friedkin is probably best remembered for the horrifying The Exorcist, and the crime thriller The French Connection. For the last several years, he's almost slipped into obscurity with some really bad films including The Guardian and Jade. Now he returns with the marine drama Rules o... [More]

Written By: Adam Mast
Center Stage

Center Stage

Great dance films are hard to come by these days. It seems that cheesy melodrama and fluff always seem to get in the way. There have been hits like Dirty Dancing and Footloose, but the last great dance film was probably Saturday Night Fever in the 70's. Not only did that picture offer great dance se... [More]

Written By: Adam Mast
The Patriot

The Patriot

A good friend of mine once told me he got really tired of the excessive flag waving in Saving Private Ryan. I'm here to tell you that Spielberg's masterpiece has nothing on The Patriot in that department. There are flags a plenty in this new Revolutionary war epic starring Mel Gibson. Gibson pla... [More]

Written By: Adam Mast
Shadow Hours

Shadow Hours

Balthazar Getty (Lord of the Flies) plays a young man who spends his days with his loving, pregnant wife (Rebecca Gayheart) and his nights working at a gas station in an ugly part of L.A. His life changes when he meets Stuart Chappell (energetic Peter Weller from Robocop), a novelist. Chappell intro... [More]

Written By: Adam Mast
Return To Me

Return To Me

With Return To Me, actress Bonnie Hunt makes a directorial debut that is every bit as winning as any character she's ever played. Return to Me is a wonderful romantic comedy that, despite it's predictability, manages to succeed on just about every level. David Duchovny (X-Files) beautifully shed... [More]

Written By: Adam Mast
Mission Impossible: 2

Mission Impossible: 2

As you probably already know, Mission: Impossible was based on the beloved 60's T.V. series. Brian DePalma directed Tom Cruise in the first film and although it was a huge money maker, many movie-goers found the convoluted plot a bit daunting. John Woo (Broken Arrow, Face Off) tries to take MI:2 in... [More]

Written By: Adam Mast
Titan A.E.

Titan A.E.

Ex Disney animator Don Bluth has built quite the resume on his own. He's the creative force behind such films as Secret of Nimh, American Tale, Land Before Time and many others. Now he turns his sights to outer space with the sporadically entertaining Titan A.E., a sci-fi adventure in the tradition... [More]

Written By: Adam Mast
Gladiator

Gladiator

Director Ridley Scott (Alien) tries to take us back to the days of the glorious epic with this sweeping, blood-drenched tale of honor, revenge, and politics. Russell Crowe (The Insider) plays General Maximus, a courageous warrior who, through a horrible set of circumstances, becomes a slave who's fo... [More]

Written By: Adam Mast
X-Men

X-Men

First of all, I must confess that I am not much of a comic book reader. When it was announced that X-Men would finally get the big screen treatment, many fans went nuts. X-Men, along with the soon to be in production Spiderman, is one of the most highly anticipated superhero films ever released. Aft... [More]

Written By: Adam Mast
The Perfect Storm

The Perfect Storm

Wolfgang Petersen (In the Line of Fire, Air Force One) returns to the open sea for the first time since his breakthrough masterpiece Das Boot, with The Perfect Storm, a supposed true story about a fishing boat lost in an intense hurricane. It seems that George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg can't get... [More]

Written By: Adam Mast