Master and Commander

Rating I never intended to see Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. When it came out, it just looked cheesy. Then my stepfather told me it was fantastic, so I knew it had to be crap. This was a man who thought Pearl Harbor was the greatest film ever made....

The Nice Guys

Rating Shane Black’s The Nice Guys is an exercise in comic timing. In many ways, it follows the conventions of the comic buddy action flick that Black himself helped pioneer with screenplays such as Lethal Weapon and The Last Boy Scout. While those films are...