An American Rhapsody (2001)

Posted on January 5, 2003 by Felix Vasquez

The movie is actually very tense in the beginning as we start in black and white bringing the feel of “Schindler’s List” as we watch the young couple attempting to escape the country of Hungary. I love the emphasis on each of the characters; Tony Goldwyn is great and has great chemistry with Nastassja Kinski. We then go to color where we see the two attempting to adjust to fifties American suburban life, and they slowly do. When they get their daughter Suzanne back, it’s all the more interesting, because she not only must adjust to a new country, but to a new life and family she never knew.

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The Crocodile Hunter – Collision Course (2002)

Posted on December 14, 2002 by Felix Vasquez

I watch the “Crocodile Hunter” television show, and to those of you people who don’t know, Steve Irwin is a professional wildlife explorer who studies vicious wildlife. Don’t be fooled by his name though, he’s more of a Crocodile preserver than hunter. I was rather curious to discover how Hollywood which has the ability to squeeze the life out of a phenomenon would handle this, and I was rather surprised. The good thing about this movie is that they don’t try to make actors out of the two explorers on which the movie focuses on.

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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

Posted on December 12, 2002 by Felix Vasquez

The sequel to the 2001 blockbuster begins where the first one last left off as the hobbits Merry and Pippin have been taken hostage by an army of Orcs, Frodo and Samwise are on the track to Mount Doom to destroy the ring and the three warriors Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimley are tracking the orcs hoping to save the two captured hobbits. Frodo and Samwise are not alone, though. They have captured a fiend that has been tracking them for days; a fiend named Gollum; an ex-hobbit who became a creature from his obsession with the ring.

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Hardball (2001)

Posted on November 29, 2002 by Felix Vasquez

Connor O’Neil is a man out of his luck. He’s a no good gambling addict who constantly fails at his bets. He’s also got a bunch of guys after him who will stop at nothing to kill him for their money. Connor turns to a rich friend who offers to pay him 500 dollars a week if he agrees to coach an inner-city baseball team. Desperate, he agrees.

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Swimfan (2002)

Posted on November 16, 2002 by Felix Vasquez

“Fatal Attraction”, as much as I dislike it, was very influential, and as all influential films do, has spawned up to, and over a hundred rip offs and wannabes including this pseudo modern take on the genre. As always, there’s nothing even remotely original to the material given in this, except for the comical ending which pretty much makes no sense. The characters in this film are all the same: there’s the main character, an average popular guy who has a lot to live for and foolishly squanders his life for a one night stand which means nothing to him, and a lot to the receiving partner, whom they know nothing about. Continue reading →

Ginger Snaps (2000)

Posted on October 2, 2002 by Felix Vasquez

Brigitte (Emily Perkins) and Ginger (the gorgeous Katharine Isabelle) play two Goth sister outcasts in high school whom are obsessed with death and the morbid. One night while walking in the woods, Ginger is mauled by a large beast and is nearly killed, but when the beast is killed shortly after the mauling and Ginger heals, she begins to reveal some Lycanthropic traits in her behavior and body.

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Spy Kids (2001)

Posted on September 29, 2002 by Felix Vasquez

Two kids discover their supposedly uncool parents are famous secret spies. When the parents get caught by an evil genius, they must band together and rescue their parents. This is such a nice movie. Not for its action or acting, but for its simplicity. It makes so many attempts at being nonviolent even though there is a lot of martial-arts scenes, and no guns. James Bond would be proud of these kids. The two offspring of enemy secret spies turned lovers obtain the elements of being a spy, though they don’t know it yet. Alexa Vega’s character is the oldest sister and contains the physical abilities and ferocity of a spy, and Daryl Sabara’s character obtains the mental and technological abilities it takes to be a spy.

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