I went into the screening of The Karate Kid intrigued by the trailers but not expecting much. Maybe that’s why I enjoyed it so much.
Tag: Columbia Pictures
MOVIE NEWS: Spidey 3-D!!
It looks like Sony’s Spider-Man reboot will be taking us to new heights. Sony announced to day that its fourth Spider-Man film, a reboot, will be shot in 3-D to premiere on July 3, 2012. For the present, the project – to be written by Zodiac’s James Vanderbilt and directed by [500] Days of summer’s […]
MOVIE REVIEW: 2012 – Great Bad B-Movie Fun on an Epic Scale!
It starts with an Indian geologist, Dr. Satnam Tsurutami [Jimy Mistry] alerting American geologist Dr. Adrian Helmsley [Chiwetal Ejiofor] of rising temperatures in the world’s deepest copper mine [handily already mined out]. This is tied into abnormally strong sun flares and sufficient neutrinos that they have a mutating effect… Well, you get the idea. Scientific […]
MOVIE REVIEW: The Taking of Pelham 123 Zips Right Along!
Though it’s a remake, The Taking of Pelham 123 has an intriguing pedigree. It’s written by Brian Helgeland [L.A. Confidential, Conspiracy Theory, and Mystic River among other things] and directed by Tony Scott [Top Gun, True Romance and Deja Vu – but also The Fan and Domino], whose career hasn’t been exactly hot of late. […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Angels & Demons: When You Write Of Us – And You Will… Be Gentle
Unlike The Da Vinci Code, I found the Angels & Demons novel to be impenetrable… maybe it was just my mood, but I saw the movie without having read the book. That may have been a positive for the movie. Angels & Demons has a number of things going for it: it’s less convoluted than […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Pineapple Express: The Apatow Comedy Factory Narrowly Averts Disaster!
Seth Rogen may have used his action sequences in Pineapple Express to audition for his upcoming The Green Hornet, but despite action sequences choreographed for humor as well as thrills, his earnestness in them almost takes deflates the good-natured stoner buddy comedy that Pineapple Express really is. Dale Denton [Rogen] is a process server who […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Hancock is Definitely Not Superman!
The trailers and clips released online for Hancock promise a superhero dramedy with an edge – and, for the first half of the film it delivers just that. Watching the drunken superhero get the bad guys while toting up millions of dollars in property damage is, at first, diverting and new. When he saves a […]
The Other Boleyn Girl: Period Piece Pomp & Soapy Sleaze!
While the political and historical ramifications are alluded to at end of the film, The Other Boleyn Girl is a lushly drawn period piece about two girls who are pimped out to the King of England by their father and uncle.