Contributor: Steven Isaac

This movie’s only claims to fame? Banned billboards and a celebutante victim. Evidently, torture tales are becoming so ‘normal,’ studios are having to play dirty to get noticed.

It would be nice if the title said it all, and moviegoers refused to throw good money after bad movies. But that’s not what’s happening with Kevin Smith’s ode to all things pornographic.

It started out as a true story. Now it just oozes with hair-band classics from the likes of Def Leppard, Motley Crue, Bon Jovi, AC/DC and INXS.

Jeremy Sisto assumes the unenviable task of portraying a historical figure with whom millions of people carry on a daily, personal relationship.

“Spider-Man, Spider-Man/Does whatever a spider can/Spins a web, any size/Catches thieves just like flies/Look out! Here comes Spider-Man 2!”

Washed-up rodeo champ Smokey Banks forms an unlikely friendship with an orphaned teen.

MTV’s animated Aeon comes of age on the big screen, finally fully realized by Oscar-winner Charlize Theron in a live-action sci-fi thriller.

Begging forgiveness from Mr. Dickens, imagine for a moment that A Christmas Carol had been rewritten by the cast of Saturday Night Live. …

Four high school buddies make a pact to lose their virginity before they graduate. It’s that simple.

Just Shoot Me’s David Spade pulls off the Joe Dirt acting thing cleanly; it’s the script he wrote that stinks.

Mike Myers’ Scottish-brogued ogre is back for a fourth adventure. Is it as forgettable as the third one? Is it as coarse as the second?

One hardly expects brilliance and innovation when attending yet another ‘sell-your-soul-to-the-devil-for-seven-lousy-wishes’ movie.

“James and the Giant Peach,” based on the 1961 Roald Dahl book of the same name, is a fairy tale beyond all fairy tales.

Rejection after rejection leaves Violet despondent, broke and searching for any job she can find. She finds one at the Coyote Ugly.

“If you’re looking for meaning, for depth, for signs of intelligence, look somewhere else.” How does one effectively criticize a movie that spends millions of dollars bragging about how stupid it is and making statements like that? How does one suffici …