If you can imagine Alien without the twisted mind of H.R. Geiger, you have the visual design of Pandorum.

Smart People isn’t a movie about smart people. You may think that for some reason or another, but it’s actually about miserable, depressed, completely unlikable people. However, that title is not one that would fit on a marquee.
Smart People’s strength lies in its characters, easily helped along by fine performances from Dennis Quaid, Thomas Haden [...]

There’s a concept in Vantage Point that works. The contrived scripting and completely implausible action can’t take advantage of that though, leaving a fun, hollow thriller that could have been so much more.
A loaded cast, including Sigourney Weaver in one of her worst efforts as a monotone news director, catches a different glimpse of the [...]

While competent and well put together, The Express doesn’t feel like a movie about Ernie Davis, but one about segregation and racism in the late ‘50s and early ‘60s. By the time the film is over, you’ll wonder about who Ernie Davis was, aside from the man who stood up for his rights. The same [...]

The Day After Tomorrow is supposed to scare you into thinking the world could plunge into a massive, deadly winter sometime around, well, the day after tomorrow. It doesn’t. Instead, audiences are given a ridiculous, hilarious, campy tale of a father looking for his son amidst the worst storm mankind has ever experienced.
Wisely spacing out [...]

A remake of a solid 1965 survival movie, Flight of the Phoenix is a routine, dull, and standard drama. The characters are the expected stereotypes, the conflicts predictable, and the tension lacking. Only the special effects and plot twist highlight this rather dreadful thriller.
After their plane crash lands in the middle of the Gobi desert, [...]