I was in the minority when it came to Ghost Rider, a few years back. It worked as a western, a biker flick, and a superhero movie. I also love the work of the Crank guys, Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. So I was pretty stoked to see Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance.
Tag: Columbia Pictures
Moneyball: Conventional Wisdom Isn’t!
At one point in Moneyball, Oakland Athletics’ General Manager Billy Beane says words to the effect that, unless you win the last game of the season, nobody cares. Today’s game says that’s one of the few times he got it wrong.
Fincher’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Gets New Four-Minute Trailer!
The new trailer for David Fincher’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo should lay to rest any worries that the story might be watered down for the American market. Check out it out for yourself.
Friends With Benefits – Today’s Forecast: Witty and Unconventional Turning To Conventional and Maudlin!
Friends With Benefits is the second film to use the idea of a man and a woman being friends who try to add no-strings-sex to their friendships. Judging from the reviews for No Strings Attached, the one with Natalie Portman [which I didn’t see – the trailer was awful!], this one – with Justin Timberlake […]
Bad Teacher – Not As Good As It Should Have Been; Not As Bad As It Could Have Been!
Thanks to the heights reached by Judd Apatow’s comedy factory, the old standards no longer apply. To be a great – even good – R-rated comedy, such a movie has to have a balance between crudity and heart. Too much of one or the other and it just doesn’t work. Jake Kasdan’s Bad Teacher actually […]
Battle Los Angeles Blows Up Real Good – And That’s All It Does!
If all you want out of a movie is for gunplay, aliens and stuff getting blowed up real good, then Battle Los Angeles will work for you. If you’re looking for anything more – and I mean anything – then you’re S.O.L. [sorta outta luck].
Don’t Just Go With It!
The TV ad campaign for Don’t Go With It is aimed at woman, as a romantic comedy. ‘Tell him it’s a Sandler movie,’ suggests the unctuous voiceover. Well, it’s a Sandler movie that desperately wants to be a romantic comedy – and it doesn’t feature five middle-aged, arrested development twits peeing in a public pool […]
The Green Hornet Buzzes But Doesn’t Sting!
The closing credits list the 1930s radio plays as the source for Seth Rogen and Michel Gondry’s adaptation of The Green Hornet but the movie looks and feels like an update of the 60s TV series played as if it were adapted by Judd Apatow. It’s a mess – but it’s an often entertaining mess.
Columbia Pictures Presents: Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man!
Not bad. Not bad at all. Spider-Man [3D] opens July 3, 2010 Photo by John Schwartzman/Courtesy of Columbia Pictures
Country Strong Is Pretty Weak!
I’m not entirely sure that Country Strong omits any cliché from the plentiful pop/jazz/rock/country-artist-falls-from-grace-then-almost-magically rebounds films, but it certainly does try hard.
How Do You Know Doesn’t [Know, That Is…]
Despite a fine performance by Reese Witherspoon, James L. Brooks’ How Do You Know is a pretty awful movie.