Tom Cruise, hoping to springboard off of the goodwill engendered by his Tropic Thunder cameo as Les Grossman, returns to the big screen with the sort of film that had previously been his specialty: a bloated, big-budget, bombastic action flick. It’s been four years since Mission: Impossible III misfired; a misfire, it should be noted, […]
With the winning streak that Pixar is on, seeing one of their new films is akin to watching your favorite team in the 9th inning of a no-hitter. But when that film is a sequel to Toy Story, possibly the most important animated film since Fantasia, well now it’s like watching that same no-hitter…only this […]
Kristen Bell stars in what has to be one of the most unintentionally creepy romantic-comedies of recent memory. In When in Rome she plays Beth, a young and single curator at the prestigious Guggenheim Museumin New York. Frustrated while at her younger sister’s romantic Rome wedding, she drunkenly steals five coins from a “fountain of […]
Dave Matthews Band returns to St. Louis tomorrow, on June 16. They will be playing the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater. If you didn’t catch my review from last year, here it is. — My wife loves, loves, loves the Dave Matthews Band…but I married her anyway. So, being a kind and caring husband (and wanting to […]
The first question upon entering the remake of The Karate Kid concerns the casting of Will Smith and Taraji P. Henson) has been transferred to China. When he runs afoul of a group of Kung Fu practicing schoolmates, he enlists the aid of his apartment’s superintendent; the reticent, but Kung Fu proficient, Mr. Han (Ralph […]
‘80s fan favorite The A-Team gets a big budget remake staring George Peppard role and Mr. T. The A-Team, for the uninitiated, was a wrongly convicted Army Special Forces Unit who helped people in need for a small fee (which was typically returned because, you know, they’re good guys). The show is best remembered for […]
In Get Him to the Greek, Russell Brand reprises the character of Aldous Snow from 2008’s Forgetting Sarah Marshall. The film isn’t a sequel so much as it is a spin-off. Jonah Hill is also back only this time he’s playing a different character entirely in the visage of Aaron Green, a mild-mannered low-level record […]
In the new film Splice Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley star as Clive and Elsa, rebellious young upstarts in the field of genetic engineering. They are rapidly rising rock stars in the world of biogenetics. Single-handedly creating new hybrid species; they appear to be on the cusp of revolutionizing medical science. However, when their funding […]
I am not, nor do I fancy myself to be, a “tough guy”. You should require no more proof than the fact that I just used the word “fancy” as a verb. However, should that not be sufficient, allow me to expound. I don’t watch or play sports. I don’t own any Ed Hardy t-shirts […]
Shrek is back and this time our hero (Mike Myers) is experiencing a midlife crisis of sort. He and his bride, Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz) are the parents of triplets and Shrek is bristling at the repetitious mundanity of domesticity longing for the days when he could take a mud bath in peace. Instead, he’s […]
