Ken Weigend

08 Nov 2007

Washington's new movie 'American Gangster' a masterpiece

Our culture is changing; audiences have replaced the corny Westerns of yesteryear with grimy and graphic fables of a new frontier. This frontier fights over pills and powder instead of gold and silver; its battles are fought on the streets […]

01 Nov 2007

Reviewers divided on Carell movie 'Dan in Real Life'

Blood is thicker than water, or so we are taught from infancy. Our moms would always be there to kiss our wounds, our dads always imparting the perfect pearls of wisdom. A beautiful thought if only it were true. The […]

25 Oct 2007

Reviewers split on new vampire flick '30 Days of Night'

There once was a romantic vision of vampires. They were seen as regal, mysterious and brooding figures; tortured souls that preyed on our psyches. Bela Lugosi terrified audiences the world over as he cast his eerily hypnotic spell in “Dracula,” […]

19 Oct 2007

Gritty cop drama ‘We Own the Night’ explores family turmoil

Television and film circa the 1980’s assaulted audiences with a moralistic cascade of family values and togetherness. It comes as no shocker then, that “We Own the Night,” James Gray’s new period crime piece set in 1988, sets out to […]

11 Oct 2007

Fantasy knock-off ‘The Seeker’ cheesy and predictable

We are taught to recycle since kindergarten, and that reusing everything will keep the Earth happy. Maybe it would have been better if Hollywood had never gotten that memo. Since the universal success “Lord of the Rings” and “Harry Potter,” […]

04 Oct 2007

Action packed, star studded 'Kingdom' tackles terrorism

It is a common practice for Hollywood to re-write history in its own image.  Events entombed in our textbooks get new life on the silver screen, re-animated to be bigger and more extravagant. That is exactly what “The Kingdom” does. […]

28 Sep 2007

Latest installment of ‘Resident Evil’ falls short of hype

“Resident Evil: Extinction” stands as a movie that should not have been made. It is a pure excuse to capitalize on the success of a franchise. Ed Wood and Uwe Boll stand proud; this is pure exploitation cinema spawned to be the bastard child of a cookie cutter film industry rife with mediocrity and cliché.

21 Sep 2007

‘Brave One’ draws mixed feelings from reviewers

Fear. It causes us to sweat bullets, our heart rates to skyrocket and our vision to become blurred. Sometimes, fear causes us to buy a gun and shoot every lowlife we can find. A little extreme, but that far-fetched jump is the same one “The Brave One” is built on.