Box Office Failures Week: Freddy Got Fingered (2001)
Most of the time when I discuss movies on this site, I share how many Razzies the movie won. The celebrities who win these awards rarely show up and never dignify this honor. But not tom Green. When Freddy Got Fingered won Worst Screenplay, Worst Actor, Worst Film, Worst Director and Worst Screen Couple, Green rolled […]
Box Office Failures Week: Glitter (2001)
Mariah Carey went into this movie as probably the biggest diva on the planet, having emancipated herself from her first marriage to Tommy Mottola and her contract with Columbia Records to become exactly who she wanted to be. She also pretty much lost her mind. As she started the publicity tour for this movie, she’d […]
Ape Week: Planet of the Apes (2001)
Mark Rosenthal and Lawrence Konner (The Legend of Billie Jean, Superman IV: A Quest for Peace, Sometimes They Come Back, The Beverly Hillbillies and more) worked with The Polar Express and Cast Away writer William Broyles Jr. After decades of trying to reboot the franchise, Tim Burton was able to get this script to the screen, even if nearly nobody […]
Driven (2001)
After making Judge Dredd, Sylvester Stallone got interested in the world of auto racing. He said of the film’s concept, “Racing’s very much like the world of acting. You have your front runners and you have guys that are there for the long race, and you have other guys that block for other people, that are […]
Ghosts of Mars (2001)
I love John Carpenter. However, the last of his films that I can 100% say that I enjoy with no reservations is 1994’s In the Mouth of Madness. After that, well, it gets a bit difficult to enjoy his movies — maybe it’s the budgets, perhaps he was burned out, maybe the studio heads were too […]
Replicant (2001)
Plenty of actors have played twins in a movie. But Jean-Claude Van Damme? He’s done it three times — Double Impact, Maximum Risk and this film, his second of three films with Ringo Lam, the man who created City On Fire, which inspired Reservoir Dogs. This time, Van Damme is both Edward “the Torch” Garrotte and his clone. And […]
Joyride (2001)
The CB radio used to be the CNN of my small hometown. Or the internet. Or the cell phone. Everyone had one. Everyone talked on them. We all had handles, we all used the lingo. And the rest of the world stopped talking on the citizen’s band, but trust me. It didn’t go away. We […]
Scary Movie 2 (2001)
Thomas Shablesky suggested this film for this all request Horror Comedy Week. I’ve known him since he was a little kid, literally. His brother and I were best friends, often watching Phantasm 2 over and over again, as well as Blood Sucking Freaks. I’m sure we warped his brain a little. He’s directed a few films of […]
From Hell (2001)
Loosely based on Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell’s graphic novel, the Hughes Brothers were criticized by Moore for replacing his “gruff” version of Frederick Abberline with an “absinthe-swilling dandy.” They should have been ready for that — Moore hasn’t enjoyed a single adaption of his work. Here, the directors of Menace II Society, Dead Presidents and The Book of Eli […]
Bones (2001)
As of late, director Ernest Dickerson has worked on plenty of TV, like The Walking Dead, Dexter, The Man in the High Castle and The Wire. But around here, he’s better known for his movies Juice and Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight. He also worked on the first two seasons of Tales from the Dark Side, giving him a great eye […]
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