Arnold Schwarzenegger is back as a leading man
For about two decades, there wasnt anyone much bigger in Hollywood than Arnold Schwarzenegger. Although to be fair, the hits in his resume the Conan films, the Terminator films, Twins, True...
View ArticleMovie review: Weak script cant kill Gangster Squad
A smart screenwriter might have used the stylish but empty-headed shoot-em-up Gangster Squad to draw a relevant correlation between the CIAs hunt for Osama bin Laden and the city of Los Angeles...
View ArticleMovie review: Twists keep Broken City intriguing
Maybe its time to put the idea of bad movies being dumped into January release dates to a rest. This crime drama, which explores the nastiness and sleaziness bubbling just below the surface of New...
View ArticleThe Last Stand proves Schwarzenegger is still a star
There are already snappy one-liners a-plenty going around about Arnold Schwarzenegger being baaack. But anyone watching The Last Stand will feel almost immediately that he never went away. The...
View ArticleMovie review: Quartet celebrates creativity
Its an interesting time for an industry that makes most of its money from a viewing audience that hasnt yet reached 30. One of last years biggest art house hits was the veteran actor-filled The...
View ArticleMovie review: Retired musicians get decidedly active in Quartet
It almost seems like film studios would rather make movies for newborns than the so-called mature demographic. Coming to a theater near you Teething 2. Look out as the Mighty Molar goes...
View ArticleMovie review: Bullet to the Head– fun title, fun movie
The last film to be so perfectly titled, to give viewers exactly what they thought they were going to get plotwise, was Snakes on a Plane, a bad movie that had only a good title going for it. Thats...
View ArticleJude Law talks about Side Effects and other new projects
London native David Jude Law slowly came up through the acting ranks like so many of his contemporaries: a stint at the National Youth Music Theatre, some work in British TV soaps, then lots of time on...
View ArticleMovie review: Youll want these Side Effects
Money, sex, insider trading, prison time, emotional distress, prescription drugs and their (see title), doctor-patient relationships, ethics probes, murder. This new mystery-thriller from director...
View ArticleMovie review: 56 Up an engaging reality series
Every seven years, since 1964, British TV viewers have been treated to a phenomenon: an insightful, humorous, sobering, life-affirming series of shows, the first of which focused on a group of...
View ArticleMovie review: Beautiful Creatures kind of like Twilight, but better
A boy meets a girl, and theyre different from each other, but they dont let that get in the way of romance. OK, stop thinking about Twilight or the much more recent Warm Bodies. This new one,...
View ArticleMovie review: John Dies at the End
SPOILER ALERT! John does NOT die at the end. He dies at about the halfway point. Or maybe its a third of the way in. Hold on, he might not be dead at all.Wow, if that doesnt pique your interest, this...
View ArticleMovie review: Dwayne Johnson cant save Snitch
As I was leaving an advance screening of this new action movie starring Dwayne Johnson, a critic friend of mine said to me, I liked The Tooth Fairy better, referring to an earlier, really bad...
View ArticleMovie review: Oz the Great and Powerful a vibrant, worthy prequel
A great idea, pulled off to just short of perfection. Its a prequel, of sorts, to The Wizard of Oz, in which were introduced to the young Kansas sideshow huckster who ends up in the magic land of...
View ArticleJim Carrey works his magic in The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
Jim Carrey can play it all: dark and light, down-to-earth and outrageous. He can jump from The Cable Guy to I Love You Phillip Morris, from The Truman Show to Dumb & Dumber without missing...
View ArticleMovie review: The Call falls apart after riveting start
Some things go very wrong in this film. For one of the characters, it happens right at the beginning, just after she makes a call to 911 in Los Angeles. Young blond-haired Leah (Evie Thompson) gets...
View ArticleMovie review: The Incredible Burt Wonderstone will work its magic on you
There havent been many movies about magic and magicians made over the years, although the idea of seeing spectacular illusions on a big screen sounds like a pretty good one. Weve had an inaccurate...
View ArticleMovie review: Admission adaptation wont please fans of the novel
Films like this comedy have a guaranteed opening weekend audience just because a big TV star has the lead role and is all over the poster. That would be 30 Rocks Tina Fey. Those folks probably wont...
View ArticleMovie review: Olympus Has Fallen will have you cheering
There are all sorts of lessons to be learned in this violent, exciting, flag-waving chunk of action cinema.One: When a knowledgeable military person radios his chopper pilots with the warning, Be on...
View ArticleMovie review: The Host not as profound as it thinks it is
A few months from now, when you visit Netflix, youll have a choice of two films titled The Host. Therell be the excellent 2006 Korean horror film about a creature that comes out of a river and...
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