It’s rare when a franchise comes back from a long hiatus and actually succeeds at capturing something new and special. However, everything leading up to “The Muppets,” was suggesting otherwise. You had a lead writer/actor that was a true fan from top to bottom, you had the backing of a major studio, and, you had …
‘Hugo’ is director Martin Scorsese’s first foray in a long while that is in complete unfamiliar territory. For starters, this is his first film absent of Leonardo DiCaprio in 10 years. Secondly this is the first Scorsese picture intended for all ages. Notice I didn’t say “intended for kids.” I don’t think Scorsese set out …
A DANGEROUS METHOD David Cronenberg is the best director working that has never been nominated for a Best Director Oscar. He has always made movies that totally fuck Hollywood in the ass. Videodrome, Dead Ringers, Naked Lunch, Scanners, The Fly…on and on and on are all movies that are highly regarded, yet fly under the radar. It’s a shame. …
Clint Eastwood arguably has had one of the best careers in the history of Hollywood. He went from an iconic Western star, to a talented and great director. With excellent films like Unforgiven and Mystic River, my expectations for his work tend to be high, but for whatever reason, it has been hard for me …
I wasn’t sure what to expect going into Jonathan Levine’s “50/50.” Judging on the trailers, there was a good chance it could have been mostly a comedy, or, it could have been depressing and sad. Despite its subject matter, this film really is the perfect balance of both. 50/50 is written by Will Reiser, loosely …
ABDUCTION Ooooohhhh scaaaarryy!! A PG13 Abduction movie starring the douche werewolf homo from Twlight!! Yayyyy!! What really shocks me about this one is the other talent involved. I expect more from you, Alfred Molina…maybe not MUCH more, but more. And I am totally ashamed of you Sigourney Weaver. Yeah, I know…you gotta eat, but you …
Liam Neeson: unlikely action star or unlikeliest action star? At some point in the not too distant past, Hollywood decided that Oskar Schindler would be a pretty good candidate to drive a car backwards through the streets of various European locales while shooting guns or evading bad guys. And so, we have Neeson starring in …
Revenge may be a dish best served cold, but what if that dish never ultimately satisfies you? South Korea-import I Saw the Devil, a film centered on a man who believes that closure for the murder of his fiancé can only come by tormenting and torturing her killer, plays with that question in a very …
I walked into viewing season 1 of Veronica Mars with very little background on the show. Outside of knowing that it was a UPN/CW show, that it starred Kristen Bell, and that it seemed to have a pretty solid Internet following, I had nothing on the show. (I believe, “Is that the show where she …
Sherlock Holmes has become almost something of a cliché. The deerstalker hat, the pipe, the “Elementary, my dear Watson”, the versions and revisions of the character and the stories have, over the years, greatly reduced the character from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s great scientific mind to something that passively conjures up a few of the …