Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (review)
Crams three times the hoo-hah of the first film into a 3D CGI theme-park ride, yet reduces itself to one-third the fun…
Jurassic Park
Trollhunter (review)
There’s tons of delicious suspense of the horror-flick variety to be had in writer-director André Øvredal’s mockumentary, and plenty of Spielbergian shock-awe, but what makes it one of the most satisfying examples of found-footage flicks yet is its observational, journalistic ethos.
The Tree of Life (review)
Tree of life? Tree of sanctimonious mopey male egotism disguised as a search for meaning, more like. Or a search for God. Or for nostalgia. Or for innocence. Or for Mom. Or for something.
question of the day: What vibe do you get off Steven Spielberg’s ‘Terra Nova’?
Somehow I missed the news last spring that Steven Spielberg and some creative folks from Star Trek and 24 were launching one of the most expensive science fiction TV series ever. But now Terra Nova is on the Fox broadcasting schedule — a two-hour preview will air on May 23 and May 24 before the show returns for 13 episodes in the fall of 2011 — and the anticipation (or the dread) is building…
Saturday cute: real baby dinosaurs
Even dinosaurs themselves may have found these little critters cute…
classic ‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “Genesis of the Daleks”
It’s weird to look back at ‘Genesis of Daleks’ now and know that the first time I saw this — it would have been back in the early 1980s — I had no idea what the hell a Dalek was.
Knight and Day (review)
*Knight and Day* may have generic characters doing generic things in generic situations, but it’s got Movie Stars with huge white smiles looking pretty and being blandly inoffensive in exotic foreign locales. What’s that? You need more than that? Why do you hate Hollywood?
trailer break: ‘Predators’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… See, I was all set to be all hopeful about this one. Adrien Brody! And Topher Grace! In an action movie! That’s gotta be a sign of something different and interesting, right? But this just makes it look like Pitch Black meets Jurassic Park. But not in … more…
my week at the movies: ‘Edge of Darkness,’ ‘Extraordinary Measures,’ ‘Tooth Fairy,’ ‘Legion’
So, I watched the 1985 BBC miniseries Edge of Darkness [Amazon U.S.] [Amazon Canada] [Amazon U.K.] upon which this new movie of the same name (opens in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. on January 29) is based, and I quite enjoyed it. Of course, it’s a six-hour character-driven drama, and the new movie — … more…
opening in the U.S. and Canada July 1-3: ‘Public Enemies,’ ‘Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs,’ ‘I Hate Valentine’s Day,’ more
opening wide Public Enemies: It’s the Miami Vice of its day, except everyone’s wearing sharp three-piece suits instead of pastels and loafers. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: Like Jurassic Park meets The King of Queens, except the stupid sitcom dad doesn’t get eaten by dinos. Damn. opening limited I Hate Valentine’s Day: Nia Vardalos … more…
