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Herb Lash

Tomatometer-approved critic
Biography:

In the 1980s, a smaller Herb Lash wandered around the Smithsonian Institute's Air and Space Museum and went slack-jawed while watching TO FLY. He liked it.. Herb has gone on to watch a great many other Big Movies, Hollywood movies, independent films, documentaries and experimental films. He has learned a good deal over the last seven years working in development and watching films for a variety of producers, actors and directors - some successful, some struggling, a few Academy Award winners and some who can't get past the studio gate. Herb thinks of himself as a Big Movie fan before he thinks of himself as a critic. Herb reviews Big Movies with the intention of being fair and the hope of having something interesting or at least intelligent to say about the films in question. The peculiarities of the Big Movie industry sometimes force the hand of its filmmakers. And still, there are Big Movies that manage to escape these artificial boundaries. Of course, good, innovative films create good, vocal, enthusiastic fans. These are the films Herb looks forward to seeing and writing about. Herb invites your opinion and feedback - he wants to know when he is wrong and when he is right. Mostly, he wants to see good Big Movies.

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Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Coral Reef Adventure (2003) 91% EDIT “Coral Reef Adventure is a heavyweight film that fights a good fight on behalf of the world's endangered reefs -- and it lets the pictures do the punching.” – Big Movie Zone Mar 24, 2003 Full Review Adrenaline Rush (2006) 67% EDIT “Adrenaline Rush balances a genuine thirst for fun against a need to deliver educational content.” – Big Movie Zone Mar 5, 2003 Full Review Australia: Land Beyond Time (2002) 86% EDIT “Australia: Land Beyond Time is an enjoyable Big Movie primarily because Australia is a weirdly beautiful place.” – Big Movie Zone Feb 20, 2003 Full Review Pulse: A Stomp Odyssey (2002) 93% EDIT “The movie is one of the best examples of artful Large Format filmmaking you are likely to see anytime soon.” – Big Movie Zone Feb 20, 2003 Full Review S.O.S. Planet (2002) EDIT “[T]he film becomes a droning, professorial lecture.” – Big Movie Zone Feb 19, 2003 Full Review Water and Man (1986) EDIT “[T]oo broad, too general approach misses some good opportunities.” – Big Movie Zone Feb 19, 2003 Full Review Ocean Men: Extreme Dive (2001) EDIT “[T]his Big Movie finds a great deal of drama and beauty in the sport of free diving.” – Big Movie Zone Feb 19, 2003 Full Review Majestic White Horses (2001) EDIT “Majestic White Horses is the rare sort of Large Format film that makes a virtue of subtlety.” – Big Movie Zone Feb 19, 2003 Full Review Ski to the Max (2000) EDIT “Ski to The Max certainly spotlights some of the most incredible ski, snowboard and paraglide stunts anywhere ever filmed or seen.” – Big Movie Zone Feb 19, 2003 Full Review Skydance (2002) EDIT “The story is built around a few terrific acrobatic stunts and hair raising fly-bys -- but everything leading up to and following these moneyshots is a silly afterthought.” – Big Movie Zone Feb 19, 2003 Full Review The Legend of Loch Lomond (2001) EDIT “The story is meant to be simple and sweet, but a series of painful clichs send the film into a dramatic spiral and all charm is lost.” – Big Movie Zone Jan 16, 2003 Full Review India: Kingdom of the Tiger (2002) 83% EDIT “Kingdom of the Tiger is a completely engrossing Big Movie and a cure for those suffering from fear of the docudrama form.” – Big Movie Zone Jan 16, 2003 Full Review Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees (2002) 93% EDIT “The film gets close to the chimps the same way Goodall did, with a serious minded patience, respect and affection.” – Big Movie Zone Nov 14, 2002 Full Review Alaska: Spirit of the Wild (1997) EDIT “Thankfully, Alaska is not a laundry list of spectacular animals -- but a tribute to one of nature's last purely wild landscapes.” – Big Movie Zone Oct 2, 2002 Full Review Africa: The Serengeti (1994) 100% EDIT “The film is ... an impossibly lucky safari delivered with a soft touch of science and philosophy.” – Big Movie Zone Oct 2, 2002 Full Review Kilimanjaro: To the Roof of Africa (2002) 90% EDIT “This Big Movie leaves no doubt that Mount Kilimanjaro is a truly amazing place.” – Big Movie Zone Sep 11, 2002 Full Review Horses: The Story of Equus (2002) 67% EDIT “[S]tagy and preposterous scenes outnumber the well crafted moments.” – Big Movie Zone Sep 11, 2002 Full Review NSync: Bigger Than Live (2001) 17% EDIT “Boy Band Bashing has become a cruel and lame sport -- if you don't like your fish raw, don't go out for sushi.” – Big Movie Zone Sep 11, 2002 Full Review EDIT “Bear lovers will find plenty to like here, but little that has not been seen before in the myriad of Discovery Channel type bear documentaries.” – Big Movie Zone Jul 17, 2002 Full Review Lost Worlds: Life in the Balance (2001) EDIT “[T]horoughly enjoyable.” – Big Movie Zone Jul 17, 2002 Full Review Amazing Journeys (1999) EDIT “There is really no chance for the film to hit a slow spot or get bogged down in minutiae -- new animals and new images are always on the horizon.” – Big Movie Zone Jul 17, 2002 Full Review The Human Body (2001) 89% EDIT “There are things happening in your body right now that you will never see unless you see this film.” – Big Movie Zone Jun 17, 2002 Full Review Space Station (2002) 87% EDIT “Everywhere the camera looks there is something worth seeing.” – Big Movie Zone Jun 17, 2002 Full Review Ultimate X: The Movie (2002) 72% EDIT “Ultimate X smoothes out the rough edges of Evel [Kneivel]'s bad boy tradition and delivers a film that keeps mom and dad in on the cool -- Disney with a little flava.” – Big Movie Zone Jun 17, 2002 Full Review Fantasia 2000 (1999) 80% EDIT “In Fantasia 2000 a simple spell is rediscovered: elegant storytelling, masterful animation and timeless music make movie magic.” – Big Movie Zone Jun 17, 2002 Full Review
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