(2004) dir. Brad Silberling
viewed: 07/09/2005
Unlike the Harry Potter books, I never read this series of children’s fare, though I thought that they looked fairly amusing and knew some people who liked them. So, when I watched this film, I saw it more as a singular thing, rather than a compilation of three novels’ worth [...]
Archive of entries posted on July 2005
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events
War of the Worlds
(2005) dir. Steven Spielberg
viewed: 06/30/05 at Loews Metreon Theatres, SF, CA
War of the Worlds, director Steven Spielberg’s latest foray into science fiction (his specialty, many would argue), is a heck of an entertaining flick. The design and execution of the adventure sequences, the overall trashing of the world by the giant tripod robots marching [...]
Land of the Dead
(2005) dir. George A. Romero
viewed: 07/13/05 at Loews Metreon Theatres, SF, CA
As a big fan of zombie films and of George A. Romero’s preceding Dead trilogy, I was pretty excited to see him get a shot a doing a new zombie film. Romero really had not done much since his last film in the [...]
Seed of Chucky
(2004) dir. Don Mancini
viewed: 07/04/2005
Don’t ask me why, but I actually caught the first Child’s Play (1988) in the theater on its initial release. One of the late 1980’s final twists on the slasher genre, it has amazed me that it has managed a life beyond its origins, quite frankly. I did enjoy [...]
