(Left to right) Tom Cruise is Reacher and Jai Courtney is Charlie in JACK REACHER, from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions.
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Date Night
“Date Night” is everything its trailers don’t make it appear to be–a hugely entertaining, rowdy, wacky slapstick film featuring two comic geniuses. Steve Carell and Tina Fey, two major stars of the two biggest sitcoms on NBC, have an exciting chemistry that carries this goofy, mainstream film to glorious heights. The duo plays a middle-aged […]
Green Hornet
Thus begins the battle of image between heroes and villains who strive to be cooler than each other. When I go to a superhero movie, I expect to be blown away, not to laugh at movie that laughs at itself. I want a real hero, not a wise-cracking bumbler who gets lucky a lot and has his sidekick do all the work.
Mega Piranha
CGI has become an excuse for a lot of wanna-be directors to be lazy. Were model piranhas so hard to come by? Would it have been so hard to use a few five-dollar air hoses to generate the thrashing in the water? Was it so prohibittive to rent one helicopter, instead of the computer-generated blob that we see, then use a split-screen to reproduce it? The one thing you can sort-of feel good about in this movie is that nothing was wasted. No good actors poured their talents into a hopeless script. No quality special effects were wasted on a stupid concept. All the components of this movie deserve eachother.
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