Devil's Advocate (1997)

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Ahh, the constant team up of Tim Burton and Johnny Depp. It does have its charms. I wonder if we'll ever get tired of those two? For now, I'm still okay with the duo, I dug "Sweeney Todd", musical or not it was pretty rad. And I'll say the same for "Sleepy Hollow". It's gruesome and romantic. What more could you ask for...especially when you ask you get bleeding trees and a headless Christopher Walken.

People are being decapitated in the quiet hamlet of Sleepy Hollow. The bodies are found headless and oddly enough cauterized at the neck as if chopped off with a red hot blade. The mystery is beyond the local authorities and a specialist, a Scientific Detective named Icabod Crane (Johnny Depp) is sent for to solve the crime. Like any other small town Sleepy Hollow has its family of some note that scandal and rumor seem to follow. Much is the same with Katrina Van Tassel's (Christina Ricci) family. Icabod quickly f... read full review

From Hell (2001)

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"From Hell" has been one of my favorite Graphic Novels since its publication back in 1990. It's an awesome retelling of the unsolved Jack the Ripper murders in London, 1888. The Hughes Brothers stay so close the comic book that the movie ends up being a wonderfully satisfying screen adaptation.

Inspector Frederick Abberline (Johnny Depp) has a reputation for being clairvoyant, and his instincts come in very handy when dealing with certain delicate cases. Unfortunately Freddy also has a reputation for "Chasing the Dragon"...the only place you'll find him is in the seedy Opium dens in darkest London town. One of his only trusted colleagues, Sergeant Peter Godley (Robbie Coltrane), has come to enlist his services on a murder most foul. Well a murder and a kidnapping of a few prostitutes known well in the Whitechapel district.

Through Abberline's investigation he meets Mary Kelly (Heather Graham) one of the Whitechapel whores and quickly falls in love with her. As h... read full review

Scream 3 (2000)

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To me the charm of the Scream Trilogy is it's progression from the scary one, to the not as good college sequel, to the final horror Hollywood comedy that is Scream 3. Scream 3 isn't a comedy you say? My foot it isn't. Maybe not on par with Airplane, but it certainly takes its satirical strike at the Hollywood machine. I think it's a pretty brilliant well conceived last act.

Much like the first two films we get a great cliffhanging prologue before the title sequence where we catch up with Cotton Weary (Liev Schreiber). If you don't remember Cotton, he was the guy pinned with the murder of Maureen Prescott in "Scream" and one of the heroes in the closing scenes of "Scream 2". Cotton has done well for himself; he has his own talk show and a hot new girlfriend Christine (Kelly Rutherford). But we don't get to know them too well seeing as how the ghost face killer shows up and hacks them both to bits revealing he has a new toy that copies peoples voices. Dun dun dun!
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The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (2001)

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This movie is a hoot. "The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra" is what you get if you had tried to make "Plan 9 From Outer Space" on purpose. It's a brilliant idea actually. One of the hardest things to do is to get a good actor to act badly. But they do a great job in this film.

Dr. Paul Armstrong (Larry Blamire) and his wife Betty (Fay Masterson) or going into the wilderness for a serious science expedition. We never really find out what kind of "Science" that Paul does, he only ever refers to it as "doing Science." or "If this works out, it will be great for Science." It's pretty rad. Turns out Dr. Armstrong is looking for a supply of Atmospherium. If only he can find a fallen comet made of Atmospherium it would be very helpful towards the forwarding of Science. Unfortunately there's also a mad scientist on the loose. Dr. Roger Fleming (Brian Howe) is looking for the Cadavra Caves so that he can resurrect the Lost Skeleton.

As the scientist do their science and al... read full review