Ultraviolet (2006)

(Note: This review, originally written last year for the White Plains Times, is being blogged by special request.) This sci-fi potboiler about a struggle between humans and a subculture of diseased-but-genetically-enhanced people known as “hemophages” doesn’t pretend to be...

Posted by Bryant on February 23, 2024 8:00 PM

Deja Vu (2006)

Certainly Tony Scott’s best movie since Enemy of the State, and probably since the Tarantino-scripted True Romance (or maybe Crimson Tide?), Deja Vu is a surprisingly engaging story of voyeurism, obsession, and a very odd complication in an unusual...

Posted by Bryant on January 30, 2024 11:30 PM

The Fountain (2006)

The Fountain seems like a damned curious piece of work until you realize the likely circumstances of its creation. Unable to shake the germ of a great idea having to do with a fallen Spanish conquistador, the Mayan Tree of...

Posted by Bryant on November 27, 2023 10:56 PM

Hollow Man (2000)

Just a few minutes into Hollow Man, my jaw hit the floor. Paul Verhoeven, who advanced the technique of computer animation by requiring scores upon scores of alien bugs to do interplanetary battle with a human army in Starship...

Posted by Bryant on September 12, 2024 12:28 AM

RoboCop (1987)

On the commentary track that accompanies the Criterion Collection's new DVD version of RoboCop, director Paul Verhoeven kicks things off by admitting that, on a first read of the film's script, he declined the project, mistaking it for just...

Posted by Bryant on May 30, 2024 10:06 PM

Starship Troopers (1997)

I'm making it official -- I've given up on Paul Verhoeven....

Posted by Bryant on November 13, 2023 12:19 AM