The problem with seeing Jennifer Annistons name in the credits of any film is that there is little doubt that what will be seen is Jennifer Anniston. Not that she isnt a nice-looking woman, attractive without being threatening to either sex. Nor, from all reports, is she a bad person, as attested to by the… Read More »
R.I.P.D
Its not enough that R.I.P.D. is bad, its also derivatively bad while also being mind-numbingly boring. Whatever wit or smarts or silliness the Dark Horse graphic novel of the same name by Peter Lenkov possesses, it is not found in this screen adaptation that is neither fun nor funny. In a messy pastiche of GHOSTBUSTERS,… Read More »
PERCY JACKSON AND THE SEA OF MONSTERS
PERCY JACKSON AND THE SEA OF MONSTERS is an improvement on its predecessor, PERCY JACKSON AND THE LIGHTNING THIEF, a film that had much potential as the kick-start of a franchise, but was not, alas, all it could have been. What it had going for it, though, and this one has, too, is that the… Read More »
WOLVERINE, THE
WOLVERINE is a murky and muddled thing saved, such as it is, by Hugh Jackmans steadfast commitment to a story that leaps about with the same agility as his eponymous character as it attempts to explore the psychological underpinnings of The Wolverines struggle with immortality, and his mercy killing of the love of his life,… Read More »
ELYSIUM
Neill Blomkamp, he of DISTRICT 9 fame, should not be expected to make a straight-up thriller without also making it a damning critique of societys ills. Nor would we want him to. His is an eye that can pick out the details that illuminate the whole without going all dialectic on us. Instead, he uses… Read More »
PLANES
The annoying thing about Disneys PLANES is that it takes a full hour before it, ahem, revs up. For all the imagination involved in breathing animated life into the anthropomorphized eponymous flying machines, and their truck and forklift pals, the story is painfully rote, taking the cliché underdog, or in this case, underplane, and putting… Read More »
JOBS
Steve Jobs lived a life too full, and too complicated, to be fully covered in a two-hour movie. Hence JOBS, the first bio-pic of his life produced after his death, has made the wise decision to limit itself to just one part of it: the relationship the eponymous titan of Silicon Valley had with the… Read More »
PARANOIA
PARANOIA is a flabby congealed thing that is in no way helped by lackluster direction and a derivative script. The hook is industrial espionage in the high-stakes, and even higher-egos, of hi-tech. Based on the novel of the same name by Joseph Finder, it is a morality tale with no sting, and a thriller with… Read More »
ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US
ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US is a great spool of carefully spun cotton candy designed to delight its target audience. And it will. The millions upon millions of tweens who are obsessed with the eponymous boy band created by Simon Cowell (Britains Got Talent, American Idol) will scream and swoon in equal measure to the… Read More »
CLOSED CIRCUIT
CLOSED CIRCUIT is a big, goofy simulacrum of a political thriller. There are all the key scenes. There are the requisite sotto voiced pronouncements with an eyebrow arched, well, archly. There are people running for their lives through dark streets at ungodly hours. There are double-, triple-, and quite possibly a quadruple-cross. And why that… Read More »
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