Today was a day off toward the end of our tour, and Nick and I got up at 8 in the morning in our Cleveland hotel room and drove to Sandusky, Ohio to ride the tallest and fastest rollercoaster in the entire world at Cedar Point amusement park! After speeding our ass off to get […]
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From Gore Verbinski, bankable and stylistically devoid director of “The Mexican” and “The Ring,” comes a silly little trifle of a movie based on a Disney theme park ride. If that sounds like fun to you already, then you may want to check out “Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl.” Johnny Depp, […]
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So Bill brought his DVDs of the first two Terminator movies in the van on this tour, knowing that we would see this one while we were out. I hadn’t seen them in a long time, and liked them both a lot. Sure, they are both basically just escapist fun, but they make sense and […]
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Not to be confused with the recent Sandra Bullock rehab comedy “28 Days,” which could be considered a zombie movie of a different ilk, director Danny Boyle’s recent U.K low budget horror hit finally made its way to America last week. I hope that it captures U.S. audiences’ attention, too, because it’s a way more […]
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Despite the fact that it is adapted from a classic Marvel comic book, director Ang Lee’s new dysfunctional family psychodrama “Hulk” more closely resembles Universal Studios horror classic than a superhero movie. Sure, there are amazing scenes of the Hulk performing superhuman stunts. But, unlike the standard superhero drama, he’s not really trying to save […]
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Alright, I have to state up front that I didn’t quite see all of “Capturing the Freidmans.” (ed. note: Eric has since seen the film twice) We were playing in Baltimore two nights ago, and Bill and I found a two hour hole between soundcheck and the time we were needed to rock. After a […]
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I, Eric Melin, lowly esteemed movie critic for Scene-Stealers.com, am officially giving those geniuses at Disney’s Pixar animation studios a well-deserved (and wholly imaginary) pat on the rear. There aren’t many kids movies these days that are worth sitting through. Talk to any parent and let them fill you in on the details. And I […]
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*Changed to Minor Rock Fist Down from Minor Rock Fist Up on 11/04/03 upon review of “The Matrix Revolutions,” the third installment in the “Matrix” trilogy. By now, you’ve all seen it, right? Well, here’s my take after one viewing (in Belgium, no less). Wow. I never expected the second movie in the hip, fresh, […]
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I was quite surprised at how razor sharp and dead-on accurate this movie was at portraying, warts and all, the kind of man and setting you don’t often see on film. Nobody ever seems to get the very specific midwestern attitudes just right in the movies. This one has it in spades. Jack Nicholson’s Warren […]
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What really freaked me out was how cheesy this film was. There was a great idea at the heart of it all, but just when it really got going plot-wise, there was something that made me cringe a bit too much. It’s OK that it was old-fashioned “Star Trek” fun. That much slowly came back […]
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Steven Soderbergh is on a roll. Last year, you probably saw “Ocean’s Eleven,” a smart piece of slick, fun Hollywood entertainment. Before that, Soderbergh got an Oscar win for “Traffic,” and a nom for “Erin Brockovich.” That’s all good, but my fave Soderbergh movie is “Out of Sight,” a comedy/romance film noir that isn’t even […]
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A little bit darker and scarier than the first installment of this soon-to-be-classic children’s series, “Chamber of Secrets” was also a bit long. But the art direction and special effects again are top notch, and since the extensive background info was already set up in the first film, this one was able to concentrate more […]
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I don’t know much about Eminem. I’ve heard his new album only once all the way through and thought it was fairly inspired, sometimes funny, and way too long. However, I do know quite a bit about “8 Mile” director, Curtis Hanson. He’s one of the best directors working today, hot off of two classic […]
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When was the last time you saw a good, old-fashioned movie about the corrupting power of Hollywood? No, wait. Let me re-phrase. When was the last time you saw an old-fashioned movie about a God-fearing family man turned famous TV star turned amateur porn photographer turned sex addict? If that sounds like something you’ve been […]
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I was jonesin’ hardcore to go see this movie the other day, and like most of you out there, I didn’t want to go alone. I don’t mind going alone, but I’d prefer to have somebody to talk about the film afterwards, especially if it’s good. My friend JoJo wanted to get some food, so […]
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