This movie looks like it was filmed on a green-screen sound stage. That’s the thing that sticks out in my mind the most about the fourth installment in the Indiana Jones saga. Why is such a technicality important? Because what we have here is the least cinematic film in a series of [...]
May 23, 2008
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Prince Caspian is like watching all of the parts of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe that I didn’t really enjoy, namely, the parts with clanging swords and allegorical politicking amongst fawns, centaurs, and the like. I could appreciate the sense of wonder upon entering Narnia in the first film. I mean, everybody likes [...]
May 18, 2008
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Who would have ever guessed that the demise of the NBC TV show Freaks and Geeks would result in a small flood of fresh comedic talent ready for the big screen? Producer Judd Apatow continues to encourage his former Freaks and Geeks cast to explore their writing side. Seth Rogen wrote one of [...]
May 7, 2008
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There’s something about the tone of Iron Man that sets it apart from other comic book origin movies, and I’m still struggling to figure out what exactly what that is. Iron Man is delicious fried chicken, and my palate can guess about eight of the eleven original herbs and spices that make it taste [...]
May 7, 2008
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There is no reason why The Ruins, a movie about American college students fighting against killer plants in Mexico, should work, but it does. It not only works, but it works well.
I read the Scott Smith novel on which the film was based because of the critical praise for the novel and my love [...]
May 2, 2008
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“Cute” is not an adjective I throw around often, and “cute” is generally not the adjective you want to see applied towards a football movie. Leatherheads is cute. This story from the early days of professional football was a passion project from director and star George Clooney, but his passion doesn’t seem to [...]
May 1, 2008
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