We all know the story – even the shortest TV spot gives us the spine of it – the Alpha, or A-Team is set up whilst on a covert ops mission and court-martialed for a crime they didn’t commit, so they break out of prison to clear their names and nail the person[s] responsible for […]
Tag: 20th Century Fox
MOVIE NEWS: X-Men: First Class Gets Kick-Ass Director; Release Date!
According to a report from The Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision blog, Matthew Vaughn, director of Kick-Ass, has signed on to direct Fox’s Marvel property, X-Men: First Class. A recent script rewrite apparently made Fox executives decide that the film could be ready for release by June 3, 2011. The film deals with mutants, led by […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Date Night Successfully Mixes Action and Screwball Comedy!
In the ‘30s, there was a series of screwball comedies – cleverly disguised as mysteries – that revolved around a rich, happily married couple, Nick and Nora Charles [William Powell and Myrna Loy] who drank too much; engaged in something called witty repartee, and solved mysteries. Date Night is about a couple who might be […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Percy Jackson & The Olympians – The Lightning Thief – Long, Unwieldy Title; Sleek, Entertaining Movie!
Christopher Columbus clearly learned a lesson from working on the first Harry Potter films – a film doesn’t need to be slavishly adapted from a book to be successful. The Lightning Thief may be almost two hours long, but it mostly zips right along. Not only are entire subplots from the book eliminated, but several […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Avatar – Pandora: You are THERE!
I’ve just returned from an alien world. That’s what it feels like after seeing Avatar. I’ve heard all the negative buzz: it’s Dances With Wolves in CG [really? You consider that a Bad Thing?]; some of the dialogue is clunky [I prefer blunt and to the point, but, well…]; it’s a crossover combining too many […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Fantastic Mr. Fox – Fabulous Fake Fur Fun!
Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox is one of the best films of the year! Adapted from – and expanded upon – Roald Dahl’s excellent book, Fox is an original. An organic delight from start to finish. The story of a slightly egocentric fox [he has a trademark!] who gives up stealing chickens and squabs for […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Aliens in the Attic Reminds Us That Silliness Can Be Entertaining!
The Pearson family is a generic family [laid-back dad, middling hyper mom, mathlete son, boy crazy teen daughter and cute as a bug pre-school daughter] who leave their average home to spend a week in a generic touristy town where they are joined by an ingratiating uncle , his slightly bullying eldest son and two […]
MOVIE REVIEW: I Don’t Love You, Beth Cooper; But Maybe We Can Be Friends
A while back, I was reading an appraisal of trailers for teen films – an appraisal given by teens. They were unanimous in their dismissal of the trailer for I Love You, Beth Cooper, for which they summed their disdain with the phrase, “This would never happen.” They were, of course, completely missing the point. […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian – More Frenetic, More Chaotic and yet, More Fun!
Night at the Museum was an unexpected hit in 2006; so naturally, they decided to make a sequel – Battle at the Smithsonian. That’s the bad news. The good news is that the sequel is better than the original. As with the original, Battle at the Smithsonian exists, primarily, to set up a string of […]
DVD NEWS: Dollhouse Set Includes Two Unaired Episodes!
Fans of Joss Whedon’s latest mind-blowing television series, Dollhouse, are in for a treat when they purchase the first season DVD/Blu-ray set. While all Whedonites are aware that there is a thirteenth episode, Epitaph One, made for broadcast in Europe and inclusion on the DVD set, 20th century Fox is also including the original, unaired […]
MOVIE REVIEW: X-Men Origins: Wolverine Messes Up X-Men Continuity & Still Isn’t That Great!
When Bryan Singer’s creative team made changes to the continuity for the first two X-Men films, they made the story stronger. When Brett Ratner’s creative team tried to put things back they were supposed to be, the movie sucked rocks. Gavin Hood’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine sits somewhere in the middle. As an X-Fan since 1964, […]