Let’s cut right to the chase, shall we? Tron: Legacy is a worthy successor to the original Tron. Unfortunately, the original Tron was a complete snooze-fest that would have been a footnote in the annals of Disney history, were it not for its interesting visuals and the fact that it was one of the earliest […]
Christina Aguilera makes her big screen debut as Ali, an Iowa farm girl who’s just landed in the big city (Los Angeles) when she comes across the club Burlesque. As an aspiring singer (she is played by Christina Aguilera, after all) she’s immediately entranced by this hyper-stylized throwback to the days of glittery costumes and […]
Don’t let the title fool you. Tangled is really Rapunzel in “tween-boy targeted” clothing. The film marks, with surprisingly little fanfare I might add, Disney Studio’s 50th animated feature. Mandy Moore stars as our formerly-titular hero while Zachary Levi plays Flynn Ryder, a charming ne’re-do-well who stumbles upon the tower in which she’s been imprisoned […]
Morning Glory, while not exactly groundbreaking, is one of the better executed romantic comedies of late. The characters are well-drawn and the humor comes from them. While it’s not an uproarious comedy, when it does aim for laughs it almost always hits the mark. McAdams is charming and she easily carries the film. Her relationship […]
Director Tony Scott reteams with Denzel Washington for the action packed Unstoppable. Washington stars as Frank, a grizzled railroad veteran in the twilight of his career who’s teamed with rookie Will (Chris Pine). When unfortunate coincidences collide with incompetence, the railway they work for is faced with a runaway train…on a collision course with another […]
Super-villain Megamind (Will Ferrell) has one goal in life – to destroy his archenemy Metro Man (Brad Pitt). But after accidentally succeeding he discovers that life is empty and sets out to create a new superhero in the visage Tighten (Jonah Hill). It’s a great plan until Tighten becomes drunk with power and turns out […]
Serious films about the afterlife are always tricky – answer questions with too great a degree of specificity and you will undoubtedly alienate audience members whose religious beliefs are different. Conversely, if your version of life-after-death is so ecclesiastically ambiguous that it can pass as all things to all people then what’s the point? Herein […]
Bruce Willis plays retired CIA operative Frank Moses in the new action/comedy Red. He is on the run when a non-retired CIA covert team attempts to assassinate him. His solution is to reassemble his old team of aging veterans to figure out why. Like The Expendables the cast consists primarily of *ahem* “mature” movie stars […]
Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel star as Holly and Eric in this month’s high-concept romantic-comedy Life as We Know It. The two are bequeathed a child after their mutual best friends unexpectedly die. Unbeknown to Holly and Eric, their friends have named the two of them as the child’s legal guardian in the event of […]
Jesse Eisenberg stars as Mark Zuckerberg the disputed creator of Facebook, in what is thus far the best film of the year – The Social Network. Don’t let the subject matter fool you. While the technology is new, the story is as old as time – love, loyalty, betrayal. Set in the present day, we […]
