When I saw Captain America: The First Avenger on opening day last July in a packed theater, forced to sit in the very front row, slouching down in my seat so as to not permanently damage my neck while looking up at the screen, I thought it was very good, but not great. Now, after [...]
Read MoreImagine for a moment that, back in 2002, when Steven Spielberg was tweaking E.T., instead of changing all the guns into walkie-talkies, he added more guns. And maybe more aliens, too, making them considerably less friendly (and presumably rather less intelligent). And set everything at night in an already-sinister London housing block? To top it [...]
Read MoreOver the years, a number of films have been made about the 1937 Japanese occupation of Nanking, China. Most were documentaries, although the 2009 film, John Rabe, was about the German businessman of the same name who saved many of the occupied Chinese from the massacre and atrocities committed by the Japanese (a la Schindler’s [...]
Read MoreWe’ll start with the premise of the film, then decide if “that conversation” needs to happen again. Milos (Srdjan Todorovic), a semiretired Serbian porn star, finds it hard to provide for his family on the savings left from his career. A father with a gentle, hangdog demeanor (except onscreen as a “Balkan sex god”), his [...]
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Read MoreBRIDESMAIDS PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES HORRIBLE BOSSES BUCK BAD TEACHER
Read MoreNeither as mediocre or overlong as the original film, nor as convoluted and overblown as the second and third installments, On Stranger Tides instead rights the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise by finally being as light, funny and wholly entertaining as star Johnny Depp still is while playing Captain Jack Sparrow.
Read MoreElizabeth Halsey (Cameron Diaz) leaves her teaching profession in order to marry her rich fiancé, only to be forced to return when he realizes her gold-digging ways. Reluctantly returning to John Adams Middle High (JAMS), she is determined to skate through her class, showing students films while she sleeps.
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