Death Race - Yahoo! loses another review !!

This movie is not a candidate for Worst Movie of the Year, it IS hands down the Worst Movie of 2008.

It starts as a homophobic and misogynistic disaster. It quickly drops any references to the gay driver and decides to stick with its basic misogyny message.

Oh boy is it bad.

Joan Allen's red lipstick is welded so tight on her pursed lips to keep the scream of "I'M GOING TO KILL MY AGENT!" from bursting out.

The direction is frantic in that MTV generation, ferret-on-speed kind of way where quite simply, you cannot tell what the heck is going on. There is not enough blood. There is no satire.

"Launch the Dreadnought!"

Right. So we can sink this mess back into the bad movie abyss from whence it came.

However, every misogynistic cloud has a sexist silver lining and here it is how they film Natalie Martinez. And how is that?

Droolingly. Knuckle-draggingly droolingly.

Yahoo! lose another one.....Mummy III

It hard to know where to begin, this film is so mediocre. Let's start with the usually luminous Ms.Bello. What's with American actresses and English accents? Speaking as a new minted US citizen who was born in the UK, I found her accent worthy. BUT...it seemed to me by spending all her time keeping it firmly in place, she lost any nuance or inflection in her voice. Or do Americans truly feel that the British are so refined and stiff-upper-lipped that they always talk like that? Ms.Bello spoke exactly the same during mummy attacks as she did serving tea in her big country house. And it was irritating.

And what happened to the son? In the second movie he was a plucky British schoolboy and in this he is a cookie cutter bloodless American pile of blah.

And who allowed THAT yeti footage to stand? Talk about cheesey AND wrong at the same time.

The plot was boring. The mummies in no way creating any of the dread of the first film.

The best thing in the movie was seeing Michelle Yeogh and Anthony Wong in a picture together. OK, but not in scenes TOGETHER...But what are you gonna do? And was the quite lovely Isabella Leong in there simply because Zhang Zi-Yi has standards?

The X-files movie

Damn Yahoo! They keep losing my movie reviews. They lost this one too.

Dana Scully paved the way to make smartness chic on TV. Without Scully there would be no CSI-babes. This movie is really all about Scully and her inner conflicts. Conflicts between her belief in Science, her Catholicism, her wish to not believe in the irrational and more importantly her desire to "not look into the darkness anymore".

The whole rest of the plot is just something going on in the background. And so what if it is not about aliens, abductions and other Roswelly stuff? The TV series was just like the two movies have been - either you had a continuing episode about Little Green Men OR you had an episode that stood by itself with no reference to bigger conspiracies. This movie is just a standalone. And that doesn't matter one whit to Scully's story.

It doesn't even matter that the story is such a slight one. There is more than enough going on to get Scully fired up. Heck, it could just have been about the kid in the hospital and it would still have carried the same emotional wallop.

Mulder is pretty superfluous to this picture - bringing as he does his usual straight out desire to believe in EVERYTHING. So he is never conflicted. And because he is never conflicted, he is never an interesting person to watch.

Amanda Peet? What a waste.

The Big Yin? Probably there will be no worse miscasting in a movie this year.

Scully holds this movie together. There has not been an actress in many a year like Gillian Anderson who can show so much humanity on the screen with just a simple close up.

Dang! She's so good in this.