Green Lantern (review)
I am consumed by the aubergine power of muddled confusion and despair.
Martin Campbell
January 29: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, except you’re busy investigating the latest government/corporate coverup and that leaves little time for amusing yourself. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you on Monday, “Hey, did … more…
Edge of Darkness (review)
A suprisingly underpowered, plodding police procedural that thinks that holding back on ‘action’ makes it ‘serious’ even in the absence of anything substantial to take its place…
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…
trailer break: ‘Edge of Darkness’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Crazy Mel Gibson is crazy. “Hangin’ on the cross or bangin’ in the nails”? *snort* Hey, not only did Martin Campbell direct Casino Royale, he also directed the 1985 British TV miniseries Edge of Darkness, of which this is a remake and — obviously — a truncation. … more…
