For some time now, the legacy of the Man of Steel on movie screens has been sorely lacking. First, the second Superman film is mired in producioral high jinks, resulting in a displaced director and a replacement who clearly does not want to make the same movie as the guy he’s replacing. The third …
To read the reviews when “The Love Guru,” opened in theaters, you would have thought that comedy as it is known had ceased to be. While this movie is un-funny, uncomfortable and overlong at 88 minutes, it is not the end of comic cinema. And while it may not signal the end of the Mike …
Honestly, I hadn’t heard boo about ‘The International’ until just two weeks ago. I was browsing the high-def content on apple.com, and I came across an “exclusive” scene from the film. I was interested immediately. The film is directed by the very talented Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run) and stars Clive Owen and Naomi Watts.
There are times in history when you simply know you’re in the midst of greatness. Sitting and watching Henry Selick’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s popular children’s book “Coraline,” you realize quite quickly that you are watching the beginning of a new era of cinema.
Though it’s set in the 1880’s, Andrew Dominik’s “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,” could have been set today. The questions it raises, namely, what is celebrity, what makes celebrity, why do people crave celebrity and, perhaps most importantly, what happens after you get celebrity?
“Wanted,” the first English language film by Russian director Timur Bekmambetov is a scratch your head, I guess that kinda looks cool, but now I’m confused again kind of movie. In other words, it’s a bit of a mess. “Wanted,” is the tale of Wesley Gibson who is a boring guy, with a boring job …
‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,’ starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett is a special film. It is a tale of a unique life
Picture the Bourne trilogy written by the guy who gave us the Transporter trilogy and released in January for a reason: you’ve got Taken, a 90-minute movie that requires an even lower set of expectations for the first month of the year’s batch of releases. There’s a reason this month has a reputation for the …
“Dear Zachary” is subtitled “A Letter to a Son About His Father.” The origin of the film came from Kurt Kenne’s earliest days as a filmmaker. One of his close friends, Andrew Bagby, always starred in his home-video movies. Kurt was close friends with Andrew’s parents. In fact, a lot of kids were close …
Richard Matheson’s well-known short science fiction story, ‘I Am Legend,’ returned to the big screen, in a larger, louder and, frankly, a lot less fun.