The Divergent Series: Insurgent movie review: being human
Sneakily undercuts tropes of the young-adult hero’s journey. But in a more adventurous movie environment, this wouldn’t feel this fresh as it does.
Robert Schwentke
cinematic roots of: ‘Red’
In Red, retired super secret agents including Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, and Morgan Freeman come out of retirement — unofficially — to investigate a nasty coverup at the highest levels of government of a terrible crime. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
Red (review)
Of all the washed-up washed-out over-the-hill too-old-for-this-shit action-hero movies we’ve had thrown at us this year — The A-Team, The Losers, The Expendables — Red is by far the most amusing, the most clever, the most tongue-in-cheek, the most fun (and I say that as someone who mostly liked those other movies).
The Time Traveler’s Wife (review)
They didn’t ruin the movie, I promise. But some will disagree with me.
trailer break: ‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Love the book by Audrey Niffenegger. Trying not to think about all the ways the movie could screw it up. On the plus side, Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana are mega charming, and though he’s not in the trailer, Ron Livingston is in the film too. (Two … more…
