You know it’s the 4th of July when you are sitting in a theater watching a Will Smith movie. Last week, I complained that Hollywood is trying desperately to turn James McAvoy into a leading man and I said he doesn’t have the “it” factor. Well one week later we see a full on display […]
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MOVIE NEWS: Punisher: War Zone Trailer and Posters Debut
The folks over at Marvel.com have posted some nice new poster shots and a trailer from the upcoming Punisher: War Zone movie. The trailer looks really cool, if not a little B "Listy." I’m still not sold on Ray Stevenson as the lead. While watching the clip, I kept thinking, that should be Thomas Jane […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Wanted misses its target. By Michelle Alexandria
The summer of the Comic-book movie continues this weekend with the launch of Wanted an adaptation of Mark Miller’s over the top graphic novel about a wimp who gets turned into an amoral, masochistic Super Villain. I had never heard of this book until the movie was announced last year. So I saw the film […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Wanted: Adrenaline-Squared!
Remember the scene in Pulp Fiction where Uma Thurman’s character overdoses and John Travolta’s character has to administer a shot of adrenaline directly to her heart? That is, roughly speaking, the effect that Timur Bekmambetov’s Wanted has on an audience. Wesley Gibson [James McAvoy] is a cubicle slave with an impressive, but meaningless title, and […]
MOVIE REVIEW” WALL*E Is Simply Dazzling!
With an A-story that features the love story between WALL*E [Waste Allocation Load Lifter – Earth Class] and EVE [Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator], and a B-story that involves humanity’s possible return to a post-apocalyptic Earth, WALL*E is more than a bit of a gamble on PIXAR’s part. Neither WALL*E nor EVE has a large vocabulary [at […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Get Smart: From Analyst to Super-Spy by Sheldon Wiebe
Get Smart could have gone wrong in oh so many ways. Fortunately, rather than parrot the ‘60s hit spy spoof, writers Tom J. Astle and Matt Ember choose to give us the story of how super-analyst Maxwell Smart [Steve Carell] made the shift from computer jockey to field agent. Mixing clever gags with action is […]
MOVIE REVIEW: The Love Guru: Crickets… by Sheldon Wiebe
Imagine the sound of one hand clapping. Not in the Zen koan way, but in the actual one hand impacting on nothing but air way. This was the sound that accompanied eighty-five of The Love Guru’s ninety-one minutes at the screening I attended – and another four minutes were closing credits. In a nutshell: Toronto […]
MOVIE NEWS: The Amazing Stan Winston Dead
It’s been a weird couple of Days first Tim Russert on Friday who was a giant in journalism died. I never met him, but did admire him. But one of the few movie heroes that I have – Stan Winston is dead. I first read about it on Aint It Cool News who reported the […]
MOVIE REVIEW: The Incredible Hulk: This Time Hulk Smash! By Sheldon Wiebe
Ang Lee’s Hulk, the A Beautiful Mind take, left fans cold, so now we have Louis Leterrier’s “HULK SMASH!” version – and it does indeed rock the house. The script – solely credited to Zak Penn [suggesting that the parts star Edward Norton worked on were edited out] – gives us all kinds of neat […]
MOVIE REVIEW: The Happening: Almost… by Sheldon Wiebe
Any great mystery, espionage or horror movie lives or dies on its writer and director combining to provide suspense – the ominous shadow here, the piercing music sting there – while creating characters we can relate to and placing them in situations that leave them more and more unable to cope, or adapt, until some […]
MOVIE NEWS: Leonardo DiCaprio Plays Games and looks at Akira
Leonardo DiCaprio loves the biopic. He’s been Howard Hughes, a 60’s scam artist, and a turn of the century Irish Gangster, who is left for him to play? How about the inventor of Pong and the modern day $10 billion dollar video game industry – Nolan Bushnell. A man who is not only known for […]