Though the main characters of Clint Eastwoods HEREAFTER have all been profoundly affected by their brushes with the afterlife, the film is about anything but death. Rather, it is how each of them copes here after the experiences that have altered their lives irrevocably. Screenwriter Peter Morgan skillfully weaves together three stories that move inevitably… Read More »
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2
Paramount Studios bought the first PARANORMAL ACTIVITY with the intention of remaking it. Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed and the original by Oren Peli was distributed to acclaim and the new experience for some of being terrified by the sound of a refrigerator motor switching on. For PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2, those cool heads are still in… Read More »
DUE DATE
Nitpickers may have a qualm or two about DUE DATE. There are certainly loose ends abounding by the time the film comes to a close. Even for those pickers of nits, though, this anti-buddy picture that pits the intractable against the inane works so well, thanks to co-stars Robert Downey, Jr. and Zack Galifianakis, that… Read More »
MEGAMIND
MEGAMIND is a sophisticated story told with a droll, unpretentious air. The humor is broad, the philosophy subtle, and the animation is strictly for fun. The result is a film that kids can grow up with, and that adults can use to relive the best days of childlike innocence. The titular character, voiced with a… Read More »
UNSTOPPABLE
UNSTOPPABLE is a formula thriller, to be sure, but one in which everyone is at the top of his or her game. The premise is that of a runaway train with explosive cargo barreling into a major population center, and is played against a nice sub-plot of corporate weenies in their skyscrapers second-guessing and undercutting… Read More »
SKYLINE
SKYLINE is an ordeal by tedium. The script has but one decent idea, the which it saves for a twist ending that arrives far too late to be of interest to those still watching. The rest is but a variation on stupid humans running from the nasty, brain-hungry aliens. Actually, the aliens consume everything, swallowing… Read More »
NEXT THREE DAYS, THE
Based on the infinitely superior French thriller, POUR ELLE, THE NEXT THREE DAYS is a road kill of a thriller. Flattened beyond recognition as being its particular genre, and with all its vital, life-giving juices mercilessly squished out of it. Whats left is a pulpy mess that is by turns painfully protracted and irritatingly stupid. Russell Crowe,… Read More »
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART 1
It might be hard for someone unfamiliar with the Harry Potter universe to catch the nuances of HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART 1. Fortunately, the larger themes are intact, despite some liberties taken with the chronology of the books and the usual necessity of streamlining a richly plotted novel into a workable screenplay.… Read More »
KINGS OF PASTRY
With KINGS OF PASTRY, master documentarians D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus turn their camera onto Frances Meilluer Ouvrier de France competition, and in observing this esoteric discipline, pastry-making at a level of accomplishment that is a marvel of refinement, reveals more than the best way to spin sugar or to recover from a seemingly insurmountable… Read More »
MORNING GLORY
MORNING GLORY is an uneven concretion of at least three different films each existing in a universe mutually exclusive of the others that have, nonetheless, somehow found a way to meet, merge, and form a whole that is geometrically smaller than the sum of it parts. And this is a shame, because at least one… Read More »
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