I think I know what happened here. Someone came up with three really good jokes and decided that an entire film could be created around them. For insurance, that same someone decided to slap those jokes into a big-screen version of a 70s television series, hoping that the identification would also bring in a ready-made… Read More »
SECRET WINDOW
There are many things wrong with SECRET WINDOW, the latest in a long line of failed adaptations of a Stephen King opus. Top of the list would be how ridiculously easy it is to figure out the twist that I think was supposed to leave us gasping. While not an insurmountable obstacle, it is a… Read More »
THE PRINCE AND ME
It is eminently fitting that THE PRINCE AND ME includes a scene where all-American heroine Paige (Julia Stiles) gives incognito Danish prince Edward (Luke Mably) a lesson in how to do laundry. This occasionally whimsical potboiler churns suds like an industrial washing machine spiffing up 100 pounds of bland with almost as much soft soap. Think… Read More »
TAKING LIVES
When I do my annual interview with the Head Berry of the Golden Raspberry Awards Foundation, the name Angelina Jolie almost always pops up, as in, if shes in a movie in any given year, shes going to be nominated for a Razzie. Gone are the glory days of that >other< award that she won.… Read More »
JERSEY GIRL
In JERSEY GIRL, Ben Affleck gives the best performance of his career. This is not to say that it is a brilliant performance, I don’t want to raise expectations unfairly, but considering the abuse I and other reviewers have heaped on him in the past, its only fair to give the boy his props now.… Read More »
ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND
Check to see if Hell has frozen over, if there are flocks of pigs flying overhead, if theres a rip in the space/time continuum, because I’ve seen something that I was sure would never happen: Jim Carrey giving a mature, nuanced performance that is both genuinely affecting and deeply moving. That grail that he has… Read More »
SCOOBY DOO 2 — MONSTERS UNLEASHED
The Gods of Cinema have not been kind to us, their loyal acolytes, and so it is that there is SCOOBY DOO 2: MONSTERS UNLEASHED, a film in which much time, money, and effort was expended so that a computer-generated dog could fart. Its not just a bad movie, it is one that, considering SCOOBY… Read More »
THE LADYKILLERS
The Coen Brothers remake of the perfect and perfectly exquisite Ealing Studio comedy, THE LADYKILLERS, isnt just a misfire, its an annoying misfire, irksome, tedious, and on the whole, unnecessary. The original, as you recall, was perfect. It was, if you recall, a resolutely deadpan and black comedy that nonetheless taught a valuable lesson about… Read More »
ELLA ENCHANTED
Taking aim squarely at a society that demands that its women be obedient, or at least self-effacing, ELLA ENCHANTED, based on the classic book by Gail Carson Levine, uses the archetypal story of Cinderella to skewer convention with that most deadly and effective of weapons: humor. Theres not a trace of bile or vitriol, either,… Read More »
HELLBOY
There are a lot of tentacles in HELLBOY, squiggly, slimy-looking, Lovecraft-inspired killing machines with a taste for human flesh. Actually, any flesh. And theyre done with a nod to special effects legend Ray Harryhausen. Theres just a suspicion of his brand of stop-action movement that makes for a bit of 50s-style nostalgia amid the impending… Read More »
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