Joseph Kastner
Joseph Kastner's reviews do not count toward the Tomatometer®. This is not a Tomatometer-approved critic, and this critic's reviews are not published on a Tomatometer-approved publication.
Biography:
Age: 17
Relationship Status: Single
Current Place of Education: Marquette University
Favorite Vacation Spot: Walt Disney World
Last Visit to WDW: June 8th - 14th, 2004
Next Visit to WDW: 2005
I started off with MickeyMoose's House of Mouse back in August 2001 focusing on the four Walt Disney World. Eventually the site added sections on Disneyland and Disney films. This is when The Moose Hole was born.
By August 2002, The Moose Hole had outgrown its current surroundings and it moved to a much better Geocities server.
Once again, we grew too big for our own good and we happily, with the help of Microsoft Frontpage, moved the site to its current Hostultra.com server.
The Moose Hole is now celebrating its second year on the web and its been growing bigger more then ever. The current version of the site has over 54 movies reviews, several product and poster stores, a DVD Department, movie trailers, and much more. Why don't you check us out and discover something for yourself.
Favorites:
The Moose's 2004 List
1. The Passion of the Christ out of 5 (A+)
2. Kill Bill (Volume II) **** 1/2 (A)
3. Spider-Man 2 **** 1/2 (A)
4. Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban **** 1/2 (A)
5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind **** 1/2 (A-)
6. Shrek 2 **** 1/2 (A-)
7. Miracle **** (B+)
8. Big Fish **** (B+)
9. The Alamo **** (B)
10. Jersey Girl **** (B)
11. Anchorman **** (B)
12. The Village *** 1/2 (C+)
13. Van Helsing *** 1/2 (C+)
14. Hellboy ***1/2 (C+)
15. King Arthur *** 1/2 (C+)
16. 50 First Dates ***1/2 (C+)
17. The Terminal *** (C)
18. The Ladykillers *** (C)
19. Teacher's Pet *** (C)
20. Home on the Range *** (C-)
21. Around the World in 80 Days *** (C-)
22. I, Robot ** 1/2 (D+)
23. Hidalgo **1/2 (D+)
24. Godsend ** (D)
25. Troy * 1/2 (D-)
26. The Day After Tomorrow * (F+)
I, Robot
The Village
Collateral
Sound of Thunder
Mr. 3000
Shark Tale
Ladder 49
J.M. Barrie's Neverland
The Incredibles
The Ring 2
The Spongebob Squarepants Movie
National Treasure
Ocean's Twelve
Meet the Fockers
5 - A+
4 1/2 - A/A-
4 - B+/B
3 1/2 - B-/C+
3 - C/C-
2 1/2 - D+
2 - D
1 1/2 - D-
1 - F+ & below
Location:
Delafield, Wisconsin
Shrek 2 (2004)
89%
4.5/5
“” –
Movie Gurus
Nov 9, 2011
Full Review
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
93%
4.5/5
“” –
Movie Gurus
Nov 9, 2011
Full Review
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
98%
4.5/5
“The Lady Vanishes stands apart from many of Hitchcock's earlier British films as one of the best of the first half of his filmmaking career” –
Moose Hole
Mar 8, 2006
Full Review
The 39 Steps (1935)
96%
4.5/5
“The 39 Steps truly stands the test of time as one of the director's most stimulating spy-thrillers from his early film career” –
Moose Hole
Mar 8, 2006
Full Review
Blackmail (1929)
88%
4.5/5
“The rape scene in particular is especially mesmerizing ... The eerily penetrating silence of the moment and what is not seen, leaving the diabolical deed to the device of our own imagination” –
Moose Hole
Feb 23, 2006
Full Review
The Lodger (1927)
96%
4/5
“The Lodger is truly a remarkable film, a perfect demonstration of the camera techniques, innovative storytelling, mystery, intrigue , and pure idiosyncrasies which would make Alfred Hitchcock one of the best, if not THE best, director in Hollywood history” –
Moose Hole
Feb 23, 2006
Full Review
Munich (2005)
79%
2/5
“Munich's most glaring weakness, Kushner's screenplay, is so extreme in its revisionist interpretation of historical events it is likely to maker even pseudo-'documentarian' Michael Moore blush” –
Moose Hole
Feb 23, 2006
Full Review
King Kong (2005)
84%
4.5/5
“Peter Jackson's King Kong is truly a rare motion picture event that can honestly be defined as an epic in every capacity of the word” –
Moose Hole
Dec 20, 2005
Full Review
The Polar Express (2004)
55%
4/5
“The Polar Express is at best a sub par family feature and at worst barely even a mediocre holiday 'classic' with no true sense of story or meaning” –
Moose Hole
Dec 18, 2005
Full Review
The Island (2005)
39%
5/5
“Unfortunately it seems as though The Island, easily this year's most innovative and startling motion-picture event, will likely go unnoticed by a majority of mainstream American audiences” –
Moose Hole
Dec 18, 2005
Full Review
Red Eye (2005)
80%
4/5
“What Steven Spielberg did for sharks and the beach with Jaws Wes Craven and Red Eye will do for airplanes, hands down” –
Moose Hole
Dec 18, 2005
Full Review
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
75%
4.5/5
“The Chronicles of Narnia remains true to both C.S. Lewis's epic vision of the whimsical world of Narnia and all those who inhabit it and the Christian undertones which encompass the plot and character developments of the entire book series” –
Moose Hole
Dec 18, 2005
Full Review
Chicken Little (2005)
37%
4/5
“Chicken Little is surprisingly original, truly a credit to Walt Disney Pictures and the film's creators, with a balancing of heart-warming and emotionally inviting family values with analytic humor for each member of the family” –
Moose Hole
Dec 18, 2005
Full Review
Wedding Crashers (2005)
75%
4.5/5 (A)
“Wedding Crashers is amoral, raunchy and sophomoric but combined with its sweet-hearted romanticism and touching message it marks itself as the funniest movies this year” –
Moose Hole
Jul 22, 2005
Full Review
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
83%
3/5 (C+)
“Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is not so much a failure, far be it from that to be sure, as it is a disappointment” –
Moose Hole
Jul 21, 2005
Full Review
War of the Worlds (2005)
76%
4.5/5 (A)
“The originative and visually stunning first half saves the film from whatever shortcomings its weaker second half, particularly its conclusion, may deliver” –
Moose Hole
Jul 8, 2005
Full Review
Batman Begins (2005)
85%
5/5 (A+)
“Batman Begins triumphantly returns the Dark Knight to his long since forgotten former glory which existed in the time of Tim Burton's original big screen adaptation” –
Moose Hole
Jun 29, 2005
Full Review
Cinderella Man (2005)
80%
5/5 (A+)
“Ron Howard's commanding direction and Russell Crowe's competently driven performance unanimously makes Cinderella Man the single most impressive feat this year” –
Moose Hole
Jun 3, 2005
Full Review
The Longest Yard (2005)
32%
4/5 (B)
“The Longest Yard fulfills what it set out to accomplish which was to deliver a load of cheap laughs to its audience in a senseless piece of comedic entertainment” –
Moose Hole
May 27, 2005
Full Review
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
93%
5/5 (A+)
“The Empire Strikes Back is quite easily the most emotionally gut-wrenching, visually stunning, and cinematically inspiring films of all time” –
Moose Hole
May 16, 2005
Full Review
Kicking & Screaming (2005)
41%
3/5 (C-)
“Kicking and Screaming truly devotes itself to its message of 'just having fun', which sadly results it a rather mediocre film and an even worse example for children” –
Moose Hole
May 13, 2005
Full Review
Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
39%
1/5 (F+)
“There truly can be no genuine characterization of Kingdom of Heaven then to say that it is in a sense nothing more then an atheist's wet-dream” –
Moose Hole
May 7, 2005
Full Review
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
61%
3/5 (C-)
“Sadly audiences will need a guide of their own just to grasp one bit of material from the complex and ultimately bewildering Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy” –
Moose Hole
Apr 29, 2005
Full Review
Sin City (2005)
76%
4.5/5 (A-)
“Sin City is nonetheless nothing short of visually arresting entertainment in the best sense of the word and serves as one of the more innovative film projects in recent years.” –
Moose Hole
Apr 2, 2005
Full Review
Garden State (2004)
86%
3/5 (C+)
“Art imitates life - the prospects of what might have been make it nearly unbearable at times, but when all is said and done you do not regret having taken the ride” –
Moose Hole
Mar 24, 2005
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