Tag: half-a-star

Speed Racer (2008)
Speed Racer is not a movie, it is two hours of bad special effects fused onto a lot of music, loud noises and corporate logos. From the special effects, I was not dazzled. From the music, I wasn’t dancing. From the action scenes, I wasn’t thrilled. From the corporate logos, I was not inspired to […]

Cool As Ice (1991)
Watching the rise and fall of a flash-in-the-pan celebrity is always a little painful. That is especially true in the case of Vanilla Ice, a man whose lack of discernible talent, coupled with his persistence on building a cottage industry upon one silly rap song, brought about the demise of his career in the early […]

Amityville 3D (1983)
There is a scene deep into “Amityville 3-D” in which the new owner of the famous haunted house at 112 Ocean Avenue comes home and hears water running in the upstairs bathroom. He opens the door and finds the room filled with thick clouds of steam. Waving his way through the steam he finds that […]