Couch-jumping theatrics aside, Tom Cruise is still a movie star, and also the main reason to see Knight and Day, a breezy, Hitchcockian action comedy co-starring Cameron Diaz that nails the action stuff but veers a little off course when it comes to the comedy.
Read More action, adventure, Cameron Diaz, comedy, David, James Mangold, Jordi Molla, Knight and Day, Marc Blucas, Paul Dano, Peter Sarsgaard, PG-13, Tom CruiseHaving apparently run out of theme park rides to turn into mediocre movies, Disney, it seems, has decided to take scenes from its own films–in this case the Mickey Mouse portion of Fantasia–and turn them into loud, overblown star vehicles for Nicolas Cage and his growing collection of wigs.
Read More action, adventure, Alfred Molina, blu-ray, comedy, David, DVD, Jay Baruchel, Jerry Bruckheimer, John Turteltaub, Nicolas Cage, PG-, Teresa Palmer, Trevor RabinLike a phoenix rising from the proverbial ashes of his stalled career, Sylvester Stallone managed to make himself relevant again a few years back with the fourth Rambo flick. With The Expendables, his massively entertaining, testosterone-fueled extravaganza of fistfights, firepower and fireballs, he rockets right past mere relevance and back to the top of the [...]
Read More action, adventure, blu-ray, David, Dolph Lundgren, DVD, Eric Roberts, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Mickey Rourke, R, Sylvester Stallone, The Expendables, thrillerThe CGI people in A Christmas Carol, director Robert Zemeckis’ latest performance-capture piece, certainly look more realistic than the creepy-faced things that populated The Polar Express. But they’re still just a little off, enough to make this otherwise entertaining version of the beloved Charles Dickens tale feel as cold-hearted as Ebenezer Scrooge himself.
Read More A Christmas Carol, animation, blu-ray, Bob Hoskins, Colin Firth, David, drama, DVD, family, Gary Oldman, Jim Carrey, PG-, Robert Zemeckis, Robin Wright-PennIf Nicholas Sparks had written The Sixth Sense, the result probably would have looked something like Charlie St. Cloud, a rather weak attempt to shift High School Musical heartthrob Zac Efron even farther away from his Disney image.
Read More Ben Sherwood, Burr Steers, Charlie St Cloud, David, DVD, Nicholas Sparks, PG-13, Ray Liotta, Zac EfronAs adaptations of literary sensations go, the film version of late Swedish author Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was good, not great. A bit long, maybe, but hardly the cure for insomnia that was The Da Vinci Code. Its cinematic follow-up, The Girl Who Played with Fire, is a definite step up, [...]
Read More blu-ray, crime, David, DVD, Michael Nyqvist, Mystery, Noomi Rapace, Paolo Roberto, R, Ralph Carlsson, Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played With Fire, thriller, Yasmine GarbiHow to Train Your Dragon is not only the best animated film since last year’s excellent Up, it’s one of this year’s best films period. It’ll make you laugh, for sure, but, you’ll also cry, cheer and thrill to the adventures of a Viking boy and his dragon.
Read More blu-ray, Chris Sanders, Cressida Cowell, David, Dean DeBlois, DVD, Gerard Butler, How To Train Your Dragon, Jay Baruchel, PG-Until I saw Adrien Brody in the energetic Predators, the fifth flick to feature the dreadlocked, crab-faced alien hunters first encountered by Arnold Schwarzenegger two decades ago, I never even imagined the guy as an action hero. But Mr. Skinny pumped some iron, got himself a crew cut and a macho attitude and, voilà, proves [...]
Read More action, Adrien Brody, adventure, Alex Litvak, blu-ray, David, DVD, Laurence Fishburne, Michael Finch, Nimrod Antal, Predators, R, Sci-Fi, thriller, Topher GraceEdward Norton was definitely smoking something when he decided to make Leaves of Grass. You see, the oh-so-serious star of Fight Club trying to be funny is like Jim Carrey trying to be serious. It goes against nature, and the end results of their efforts are generally lacking. Such is the state of this pot [...]
Read More comedy, crime, David, drama, Edward Norton, Keri Russell, Leaves of Grass, R, thriller, Tim Blake NelsonThough this slick reboot of the horror franchise featuring razor-gloved boogeyman Freddy Krueger never even comes close to replicating the uniquely unsettling eeriness of the 1984 original, it still makes a pretty decent fright machine. Jackie Earle Haley takes over for role-originator Robert Englund in donning the familiar fedora and red and green sweater of [...]
Read More A Nightmare on Elm Street, David, DVD, horror, Jackie Earle Haley, Katie Cassidy, Mystery, R, Samuel Bayer, thriller