So, there are sixty-odd robots in Revenge of the Fallen. There’s also one new character of the human variety – at least, one that’s given any substantial screen time. Which should tell you how important the human part of the Transformers sequel is to director Michael Bay. It’s bad enough that we meet a millennia-old […]
Tag: Paramount Pictures
MOVIE REVIEW: Murphy’s Newest Film Doesn’t Suck – Imagine That!
Imagine That is a better movie than either of Eddie Murphy’s last two live-action films [Meet Dave and Norbit]. That might seem like damning it with faint praise, but Imagine That is a relatively well written, decent little story that is not – as the trailer might have suggested – the Eddie Murphy version of Bedtime Stories. […]
MOVIE NEWS: Another Gossip Girl Gets a Movie, Chace Crawford to Star in Footloose!
Ok, the headline is a little missleading, it’s not a Gossip Girl, it’s Gossip Guy; Chase “Bangs” Crawford who plays the whiny Nathan on Gossip Girl just landed the starring role in Paramount’s Footloose. I don’t like the idea of them remaking this movie At All, but I’ll say this is decent casting assuming he […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Star Trek: Magnificent Trek; Magnificent Movie!
The eleventh Star Trek film, simply entitled Star Trek, is a genuine experience. Saying that they got it right is like saying that the sky is blue. Star Trek is the best Trek film – but that’s only half the story. It is a blockbuster in all the right ways: fascinating characters; robust action sequences; […]
MOVIE REVIEW: The Soloist Plays Brilliantly!
I don’t know who made the decision to back The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as Paramount’s most likely Oscar® candidate, and to shuffle The Soloist to the spring release schedule where it will undoubtedly get lost among the spring blockbusters, but they definitely backed the wrong metaphorical horse. The Soloist is a film of […]
MOVIE REVIEW: I Love You, Man – Somewhere, Judd Apatow Is Envious!
The trailer for I Love You, Man is one of the funnier trailers to hit theaters in the last year. Some of its gags are funny enough to serve as the best bits of most comedies. In I Love You, Man, they are but a taste [I haven’t laughed so hard at a movie since […]
MOVIE REVIEW: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Youth, Apparently, Is Not Wasted on the Young!
One of the strangest – and yet most normal – films of the year is The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Even you’ve not been paying attention to pop culture for the last six months, it would hard not to have heard about the movie about the guy who ages backwards while living forwards. Directed […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Madagascar 2: Escape 2 Africa – Thank You for Flying Penguin Air!
Confession time. I did not see Madagascar. Nope. The trailer did nothing for me – and I was thoroughly penguined out, in any case. Thus, you can imagine my surprise when the trailer to Escape 2 Africa actually caught my attention. Further, you can probably imagine my surprise when I sat through the film and […]
DVD REVIEW: Iron Man Ultimate 2-Disc Edition Flies High!
In my review of Iron Man during its theatrical run, after noting that the film worked mainly because of its honouring the source material from the Marvel comics, I wrapped up with: “While the action scenes aren’t as accomplished as something by Michael Bay, they come off better because director Jon Favreau understands that it’s […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Eagle Eye Combines Hi-Tech and SF to Create Effective Thriller!
Eagle Eye marks the fourth time Shia LeBeouf has worked on a Steven Spielberg production, and the second time that he’s worked with both Spielberg and director D.J. Caruso – and the triple team may well be turning into one of modern cinema’s most potent. Eagle Eye is a techno-thriller that comes across as a […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Ghost Town: Gervais Displays Surprising Range!
Bertram Pincus [Ricky Gervais] is a solitary man, rude and generally misanthropic, he lives alone and has a job [he’s a dentist] where he can make sure his patients don’t to him. He even has his office literally a few yards from he works so he can avoid as many people as possible – until […]