It seems like the fall back position of “indie” cinema these days is that drama almost exclusively comes from tragedy. Welcome to the Rileys is no exception. It’s a story of a married couple who has lost their 15 year old daughter to a car accident. After her death, they seem to be separately orbiting [...]
Read More James Gandolfini, Kristen Stewart, Melissa Leo, Noah, Welcome to the RileysThe star-crossed exploits of Bella Swan and Edward Cullen continue in Eclipse, the third installment of the teen-friendly vampire franchise that makes itself infinitely more tolerable than its predecessors by dialing down the angst and ramping up the action.
Read More blu-ray, Bryce Dallas Howard, David, David Slade, drama, DVD, Fantasy, Kristen Stewart, PG-13, Robert Pattinson, romance, Twilight Saga: EclipseRobert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart again suffer mightily as a tortured teenage vampire and his seriously sulky soul mate in this follow-up to 2008’s toothless Twilight, but not nearly as much as the audience does in enduring 130 minutes of dreadful dialogue, awful acting and co-star Taylor Lautner and his amazing abs.
Read More blu-ray, Chris Weitz, David, drama, DVD, Fantasy, Kristen Stewart, Melissa Rosenberg, Michael Sheen, New Moon, PG-13, Robert Pattinson, romance, Stephenie Meyer, Taylor Lautner, TwilightAdventureland was written and directed by Greg Mottola, he who helmed the much-beloved Superbad, and I suspect people will want to see it because of that connection. But it’s not a broad and raunchy laughfest. Rather, it’s a modest, semi-autobiographical–albeit R-rated–comedy/drama about one of those transformative summers in a young person’s life. In this case [...]
Read More Adventureland, Bill Hader, comedy, David, drama, DVD, Greg Mottola, Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Kristen Wiig, Martin Starr, R, romance, Ryan ReynoldsWhat Just Happened is director Barry Levinson (Rain Man) making fun of Hollywood in kind-of the same way he made fun of politics with 1997′s Wag the Dog. And though it’s not nearly as good as that film and treads no new ground nor targets anything new, it’s still an amusing effort, with an easy, [...]
Read More Barry Levinson, Bruce Willis, Catherine Keener, comedy, drama, DVD, Kristen Stewart, Michael Wincott, R, Robert De Niro, Robin Wright-Penn, Sean Penn, What Just Happened