Clint Eastwood bites off a bit more than he can chew as a director with Hereafter, his somber, slow-moving drama about three disparate people’s connection to the afterlife that could basically be summed up as Crash meets The Sixth Sense.
Friday 18 Mar 2011 |
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The best thing I can say about Morning Glory, a tired and predictable behind-the-morning-news-scenes comedy starring Harrison Ford, Diane Keaton and Rachel McAdams, is that Indiana Jones is somehow funnier than Annie Hall.
Friday 11 Mar 2011 |
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comedy, drama, movie reviews, romance
What was first an 88-minute French film called Pour Elle is now a 133-minute, big-studio thriller starring Russell Crowe and directed by Paul Haggis that, despite needing a bit of trimming, turns out to be a solidly entertaining effort.
Friday 11 Mar 2011 |
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Its title makes it sound like the latest installment of the Fast and the Furious franchise, but Faster is actually a stylish and surprisingly good revenge thriller starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (who coincidentally appears in the fifth F&F entry next month) and Billy Bob Thornton that looks and feels a little like film [...]
Friday 04 Mar 2011 |
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The high-concept Due Date definitely delivers some laughs thanks to the odd-couple casting of Robert Downey, Jr. and Zach Galifianakis, but not quite as many as one would expect to find in a comedy featuring such highly regarded comic personas.
Friday 25 Feb 2011 |
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Having already done the underground train thing with their remake of The Taking of Pelham 123, Denzel Washington and director Tony Scott move above ground with Unstoppable, a rousing runaway train thriller co-starring Chris Pine that barrels right along and barely brakes for nuance.
Thursday 17 Feb 2011 |
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It may have cost less than a million dollars to make, but the ingenious Monsters, like most sci-fi flicks nowadays, is still all about the visual effects. Only in a good way. Instead of the CGI being the show, a la 2012, it rather refreshingly serves to enhance a simple, albeit familiar, story [...]
Friday 04 Feb 2011 |
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The cinematic escapades of Swedish author Stieg Larsson’s pint-sized Goth hacker end with a whimper in The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, a redundant, talky and overly long affair that will probably prove a must-see for fans of the books but had me constantly checking my watch and shaking my head [...]
Friday 28 Jan 2011 |
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drama, foreign films, movie reviews, suspense/thrillers
Boobs and blood go hand-in-hand in Piranha 3D, director Alexandre Aja’s perfectly stupid but surprisingly fun rehash of the 1978 Joe Dante classic about those nasty little man-eating fish that, while hardly the scariest of horror flicks, may make you think twice about going skinny dipping.
Thursday 13 Jan 2011 |
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comedy, horror, movie reviews, suspense/thrillers
Milla Jovovich resumes her sexy gun-toting, zombie-butt-kicking ways in fantastic fashion in Resident Evil: Afterlife, the fourth and easily most entertaining entry in the horror-action franchise based on the best-selling videogame.
Thursday 30 Dec 2010 |
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