Max (Jamie Foxx) is an easygoing guy who is going places. For now hes driving a cab, but its just temporary until his limo business gets off the ground. Okay, its been twelve years, but there are a lot of details to work out. Tonight, though, he is on a roll. A gorgeous woman (Jada… Read More »
ALIEN VS PREDATOR
I know even as I type this that its a futile question, but can we have a rule that we only make movies when theres an actual story to tell? I am inspired to ask because Ive just come from enduring ALIEN VS PREDATOR, a film that was press screened the day before it opened.… Read More »
WICKER PARK
WICKER PARK is a dense, elegant mystery directed by Paul McGuigan, who knows the difference between being stylish and being showy. The flash in this tale of love at first sight and its fallout comes from the way it tricks the audience into deceiving itself before unraveling another set of assumptions by deftly shifting the… Read More »
CELLULAR
There are as many conceptions of Hell as there are people who imagine what it must be like. CELLULAR presents a very particular one. The one where the damned soul is doomed to wander in Los Angeles traffic for all eternity on an endless and hopeless quest, thwarted at every turn by traffic jams, idiot… Read More »
RESIDENT EVIL: APOCALYPSE
There is something almost noble about the way those responsible for RESIDENT EVIL picked themselves up, dusted themselves off, and decided, what the heck, lets give it another shot. Bad reviews didnt stop them. Common sense didnt, either. Hence, RESIDENT EVIL: APOCALYPSE. And yet, isnt one definition of insanity doing the same thing over and… Read More »
I HEART HUCKABEES
In David O. Russells latest film, I HEART HUCKABEES, the key to happiness is not finding true love, or landing the dream job, nor even success on the material plane. The key to happiness has nothing to do with altering the external accidents of existence, but rather with changing the inner view of what existence… Read More »
NATIONAL TREASURE
There are many things that an action-adventure flick should be and NATIONAL TREASURE manages to not be most of them. For over two hours, there are car chases, shoot-outs, snarling bad guys, a snarky side-kick, and, because this is the typically overproduced Jerry Bruckheimer effort, explosions, the first a restrained 15 minutes into the proceedings.… Read More »
THE FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX
THE FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX, 2004’s version of the 1965 film, which was, in turn based on the novel starts with a bang. It ends with another, even better one, but, alas, sags in the middle with too much exposition and not enough suspense. Though people doing very silly things qualifies as a sort of… Read More »
ELEKTRA
ELEKTRA’s mission as a film was to be better than DAREDEVIL, the benighted Ben Affleck vehicle in which the character of the knife-wielding super-heroine previously appeared. It succeeds, but then again, it’s not like it had a high bar to clear. Fans of Jennifer Garner will not be disappointed with ELEKTRA, which brings back that… Read More »
ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13
With ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 we learn two important lessons. One, that remakes, in this case of John Carpenter’s 1976 original of the same name, fail, and badly, much more often than they succeed. Two, that Laurence Fishburne has so much raw talent, smooth charisma, and irresistible personal magnetism that he can make even trash like this… Read More »
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