The Lone Ranger review: weak whiskey
Limp and lifeless, this overlong and undercooked would-be blockbuster cannot focus on either the hard-edged realities or the magical mysteries it toys with.
Tom Wilkinson
Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts (85th Academy Awards) (review)
“Paperman” might be the most romantic movie of the year…
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (review)
Kooky-cutesy dramedy about British pensioners who retire to India, where they can be treated poorly in all new and exotic ways…
The Conspirator (review)
Admirable. Too, too admirable…
The Green Hornet (review)
He doesn’t exactly kick ass: he is an ass. Life as a masked crime fighter with some slick wheels to groove him around town is not the chick magnet he imagined it would be…
trailer break: ‘Burke and Hare’
I was sorta excited about this, but now we see why the trailer was held till just mere weeks before its U.K. release: It looks really, really stupid.
Duplicity movie review: good clean fluff
It’s not that I don’t like fluff: it’s that I don’t like dumb fluff. And yet clever fluff is so very rare. So of course I cheer a hearty “Hoorah!” for Duplicity.
trailer break: ‘Duplicity’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Clive Owen Clive Owen Clive Owen Clive Owen Clive Owen Clive Owen Clive Owen Clive Owen Clive Owen Clive Owen Clive Owen Clive Owen Clive Owen Clive Owen Clive Owen Clive Owen Clive Owen Clive Owen Clive Owen Clive Owen Clive Owen. That’s pretty much all I … more…
5 reasons I’m psyched for ‘Valkyrie’
All this weekend! 5 movies I’m psyched for in December and 5 reasons why. No. 3: Valkyrie [opens in the U.S. on December 25, and in the U.K. on January 23, 2009]. 1. Bryan Singer. He’s one of the great filmmakers of Generation X — The Usual Suspects, X-Men, Superman Returns — and I’m highly … more…
RocknRolla (review)
Guy Ritchie would surprise us if he surprised us. *RocknRolla,* his latest mockney crime caper, is exactly what you expect it to be. Hell, it’s exactly what you *want* it to be…
