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Retro Review: “Dreamcatcher”

Here, for the sake of posterity (and because it’s original home is now defunct), is my near-epic review of “Dreamcatcher” from March 2003. This is meant as a public service for future generations of moviegoers and Netflix users. The pain begins after the jump.

REVIEW – The Recruit [**1/4]

(originally posted at re-view on March 2, 2003) WARNING! ACHTUNG! This re-view reveals the “shocking” twist ending to “The Recruit”! Don’t read if you’re totally oblivious! (Otherwise, read on.) Avid viewers of ABC’s phenomenal series “Alias” will recognize a lot of elements in “The Recruit”. There’s the brilliant, fresh-out-of-college trainee agent, the scruffy mentor-father figure, [...]

REVIEW – Daredevil: The man without…stuff. [**1/4]

Daredevil is, at best, a schitzophrenic movie. I don’t say that because at times it wants to be an action movie, and at times it wants to be a romance – all comic book/superhero movies do that. What I mean is that, clearly one person envisioned a taut, intelligent superhero movie about an average kid [...]

Review: Star Wars – Episode II: Attack of the Clones

I’m glad I waited to write this until now, because if I had posted my opinions when I got home last night (at 3 in the morning), I would have torn Episode II a new one. But hindsight, even 12 hour old hindsight, is 20/20, and I’ve been able to think back and separate out [...]