Life is frustrating, exhilarating, confusing, astounding and unpredictable. So is LOVE AND OTHER DRUGS, a film with high aspirations and a slightly muddled follow-through. Based on Jamie Reidy’s book “Hard Sell: The Evolution of A Viagra Saleman” and set against the world of medicine as a business, it makes a piquant juxtaposition of Viagra and true… Read More »
BURLESQUE
BURLESQUE is a heaping helping of corn pone laced with a glittering cascade of glitzy production numbers. Start with a fresh-faced Iowa farm girl, Ali (Christina Aguilera), take her to the bright lights and broken dreams of Hollywood, and in the time it takes to show the montage of her hitting the streets in search… Read More »
FASTER
FASTER sails through its first 90 minutes or so as a thrill-packed action flick. Riotously surreal and willfully so, it showcases Dwayne Johnsons star power, not to mention his pecs. Glistening with sweat and straining beneath the flesh, they are the first image on screen. Johnsons character this time is and ex-con Driver, the job… Read More »
TOURIST, THE
THE TOURIST is a leisurely thriller, more interesting than heart-stopping, with an unfortunate tendency to stall. Designed to showcase the good looks and star quality of its Venice locations, and of its stars, Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp, it is a picture postcard of a flick. At its center is a bait-and-switch caper devised by… Read More »
THE WARRIOR’S WAY
THE WARRIOR’S WAY starts strong, ends with a slick tableaux and in between disappoints with a steady acceleration that not even a quietly charismatic performance by star Dong-Gun Jang, nor the image of a clown with a gun during the films climactic shoot-out, can surmount. A fanciful mix of spaghetti-western bad guys, colorful carnival folk,… Read More »
NGHT CATCHES US
There is in every frame of NIGHT CATCHES US the vivid, demanding presence of the past that is more than just being set in the Philadelphia of 1976. Writer/director Tanya Hamilton uses close-ups of her stellar cast as they pause in conversation with one another and, as they gaze at one another, or into an… Read More »
CHRONICLES OF NARNIA, THE — THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER
There is no stinting on the sumptuous factor in THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA — THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER. Once the action shifts from World War II England to the magical kingdom ruled by Aslan (Liam Neesons sonorous voice), the wise lion and stand-in for Christ, every frame is filled to the brim with… Read More »
HOW DO YOU KNOW?
George (Paul Rudd) is perhaps the last honest man in working in the financial sector. Its not a trait that has done him any good as HOW DO YOU KNOW opens. In fact, his sense of honor has put him in the way of an SEC investigation. The particulars are a mystery to him, but… Read More »
TRON – LEGACY
The original TRON was a film very much of its time, a time before e-mail and VOD, when those who had them looked upon the strange box sitting their desks with a mixture of awe and trepidation. Not having grown up with them, the population whose closest encounter until then with a computer had been… Read More »
LITTLE FOCKERS
There is in LITTLE FOCKERS barely a trace of the spark that made MEET THE PARENTS interesting. Ben Stiller as the husband and Robert DeNiro as the father still antagonizing one another over oddly placid wife/daughter Terri Polo has run out of what little steam it had left after MEET THE FOCKERS. Stiller and De… Read More »
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