Here is a definition of star power. An actor who can take a script that is completely predictable and make it seem if not exactly fresh, still somehow charming. So it is with Queen Latifah in JUST WRIGHT, a by-the-numbers romance that pits an everywoman with a heart of gold against a diva who is… Read More »
ROBIN HOOD
Those hoping for a whiz-bang re-telling of the legend of merry men stealing from the rich and giving to the poor will be sorely disappointed with Ridley Scotts ROBIN HOOD. This is an origins tale, one that starts slowly and, despite anxious and insistent hand-held camera work to give the illusion of drama, never rises… Read More »
SHREK FOREVER AFTER
The magic is back. SHREK FOREVER AFTER has recaptured everything that made the original so great, including the attitude of William Steig, the author of the original Shrek book, while keeping those elements that worked in the subsequent installments. Which is to say, there is nothing of the third to be found here. Shrek (Mike… Read More »
MACGRUBER
MACGRUBER takes the Saturday Night Live sketch played to perfection by Will Forte and brings it to the big screen with the sense of the ridiculous intact. No high-end effects, no upscale sets, its a paean to the 80s action hero genre, sub-genre television. Forte, all mullet and ego, plays it with a straight face,… Read More »
PRINCE OF PERSIA — THE SANDS OF TIME
PRINCE OF PERSIA — THE SANDS OF TIME avoids the usual mistakes associated with a video game making the leap to the big screen. Instead of cluttering the running time with one feckless action sequence after another that could, for all practical purposes, run in any random order without significantly affecting the through story, PRINCE… Read More »
SEX AND THE CITY 2
The only thing really worth pondering in all of SEX AND THE CITY 2s running time, all 2 hours and almost 30 minutes of it, is how something that is so overwrought can also be so very underwritten. Granted, the entire point of the exercise is to allow its four lady leads to go through… Read More »
MARMADUKE
MARMADUKE is the completely uncalled for screen adaptation of the durable syndicated comic by Brad Anderson and Phil Leeming. The comic is a daily one-panel deal that shows the difficulties of large dog ownership encountered by a family with a Great Dane, the eponymous Marmaduke. Screenwriters Tim Rasmussen and Vincent Di Meglio sought to expand… Read More »
GET HIM TO THE GREEK
In GET HIM TO THE GREEK, sweet geek and uber-fan Aaron Green (Jonah Hill) gets to live his dream of hanging out with his idol rock star Aldous Snow (Russell Brand). The dream includes getting the notoriously difficult musician to the eponymous Greek Theater from London in 72 hours and its more than a chance… Read More »
KILLERS
KILLERS, a film released without a press screening, takes ones breath away with the depth, breadth, and sheer scope of its ineptitude. Director Robert Luketic has confused helming a frothy action romp through silliness with remaking Ingmar Bergmans SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE. Star Katherine Heigl may be many things, Liv Ullman is not one of… Read More »
THE A-TEAM
The biggest mistake in making a testosterone-fueled action fantasy is to have it take itself too seriously. THE A-TEAM doesnt fall into that trap. Instead, it takes everything that was fun about the series on which it was based and amps it up into stratospherically ridiculous heights. And it does so with an irresistible insouciance… Read More »
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