Safe movie review: New York noir
A viciously cynical dark fantasy that fashions a new mythos of post-9/11 New York, a bleak but plausible world of the Russian mob, the Chinese Triads, and the NYPD as another gang vying for supremacy.
Prince of Persia The Sands of Time
question of the day: Has this been the worst summer for movies ever, or does it just feel that way?
Even the moderate financial hits have been, for the most part, ugly, boring, and creatively tapped out, even grading on the summer-blockbuster curve.
trailer break: ‘Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole’
I can’t quite put my finger on it, but something rubs me the wrong way every time I see this trailer…
calling bullshit on: Owen Gleiberman at EW’s The Movie Critics…
…for deciding that two female action stars constitutes a “new normal”: It’s amusing to realize, in hindsight, that Luc Besson’s funky-violent French art-house thriller La Femme Nikita, in 1990, and its rote American remake, Point of No Return, in 1993, were still treating lady-killer heroines with kid gloves. At that point, seeing an actress like … more…
what he said: Patrick Goldstein at The Big Picture…
…on Jerry Bruckheimer’s bad summer, what with The Sorcerer’s Apprentice flopping, and right on the heels of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time sorta flopping by Bruckheimerian standards: What makes things bad for Bruckheimer is that he’s been wrapped up in his self-contained world for so long that outside of his close friends, the … more…
omg: Ray Harryhausen feted at BFI on his 90th birthday; is he available to work?
I’ve just come from enduring some truly cold and deeply unmoving CGI FX in The Last Airbender. Sterile, inorganic, lifeless… I haven’t seen anything so lackluster since Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. And Jonah Hex. And Clash of the Titans. And Alice in Wonderland. And — oh yeah — last night, when I … more…
trailer break: ‘Tangled’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… We learned back in March that Disney was suddenly terrified of princess movies, and so was changing the title of its Rapunzel movie from, you know, Rapunzel to Tangled. And now we see how far the Mouse is going to de-girl the movie with this trailer. In … more…
trailer break: ‘The Last Airbender’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… I cannot tell you how excited I am to see this latest installment in the Harry Potter and the Lord of the Rings with the Golden Compass: Prince of Persia and the Sands of Time film series. And the decision to release the movie in 3D is … more…
question of the day: Hardly anyone went to the movies over Memorial Day weekend: why not?
Worst. Memorial Day. Evah. Well, not ever, but in 17 years. Which means that the last time the box office was this bad over this major weekend, most of Hollywood’s target audience hadn’t quite been born yet. Neither of the two big newcomers, would-be blockbusters Sex and the City 2 and Prince of Persia: The … more…
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (review)
I saw *Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time*? Why can’t I remember anything about it?
