Movie review: Red Dawn is a dismal remake
Red Dawn (D)Just what we need for the Thanksgiving holiday: another pointless remake, and appropriately enough, Red Dawn is a turkey. Hold the stuffing. Its already loaded with byproducts.You...
View ArticleMovie review: Life of Pi relies on stunning visuals
Beautiful on the outside, empty on the inside, Ang Lees glitzy Life of Pi is very much the equivalent of a Victorias Secret model sporting those fluffy angel wings. I mention the appendages because...
View ArticleMovie review: Anthony Hopkins as Hitchcock aint half bad
Attempting to profile Alfred Hitchcock in a 98-minute movie is akin to having a death wish. Youd be better off getting your eyes pecked out a la Suzanne Pleshette in The Birds. But first-time...
View ArticleMovie previews: Hollywood Santa plans these deliveries through December
Now that Thanksgiving is out of the way, its time to start getting serious about the movies, as a host of Oscar contenders take over the local multiplexes in the final weeks of 2012. Some hotly...
View ArticleGet Reel: Hot films for the holidays
So youve finished your holiday shopping, or you havent started your holiday shopping or you have no intention of doing any holiday shopping. Whatever. Why not take a break from the hoopla and give...
View ArticleMovie review: The Hobbit falls flat
After the hideous misfire that was The Lovely Bones, its little surprise that Peter Jackson opted to return to the scene of his greatest triumph, Middle-earth. But in ignoring Thomas Wolfes...
View ArticleArnold Schwarzenegger is back as a leading man
For about two decades, there wasnt anyone much bigger in Hollywood than Arnold Schwarzenegger. Although to be fair, the hits in his resume the Conan films, the Terminator films, Twins, True...
View ArticleMovie review: Weak script cant kill Gangster Squad
A smart screenwriter might have used the stylish but empty-headed shoot-em-up Gangster Squad to draw a relevant correlation between the CIAs hunt for Osama bin Laden and the city of Los Angeles...
View ArticleMovie review: Twists keep Broken City intriguing
Maybe its time to put the idea of bad movies being dumped into January release dates to a rest. This crime drama, which explores the nastiness and sleaziness bubbling just below the surface of New...
View ArticleThe Last Stand proves Schwarzenegger is still a star
There are already snappy one-liners a-plenty going around about Arnold Schwarzenegger being baaack. But anyone watching The Last Stand will feel almost immediately that he never went away. The...
View ArticleMovie review: Quartet celebrates creativity
Its an interesting time for an industry that makes most of its money from a viewing audience that hasnt yet reached 30. One of last years biggest art house hits was the veteran actor-filled The...
View ArticleMovie review: Retired musicians get decidedly active in Quartet
It almost seems like film studios would rather make movies for newborns than the so-called mature demographic. Coming to a theater near you Teething 2. Look out as the Mighty Molar goes...
View ArticleGeneseo couple receives 4 billionth Netflix DVD
When Joe Green of Geneseo requested a DVD of the action movie “Safe” through his Netflix account, he had no idea his order would mark a major milestone in the company's history.
View ArticleMovie review: Bullet to the Head– fun title, fun movie
The last film to be so perfectly titled, to give viewers exactly what they thought they were going to get plotwise, was Snakes on a Plane, a bad movie that had only a good title going for it. Thats...
View ArticleJude Law talks about Side Effects and other new projects
London native David Jude Law slowly came up through the acting ranks like so many of his contemporaries: a stint at the National Youth Music Theatre, some work in British TV soaps, then lots of time on...
View ArticleMovie review: Youll want these Side Effects
Money, sex, insider trading, prison time, emotional distress, prescription drugs and their (see title), doctor-patient relationships, ethics probes, murder. This new mystery-thriller from director...
View ArticleMovie review: 56 Up an engaging reality series
Every seven years, since 1964, British TV viewers have been treated to a phenomenon: an insightful, humorous, sobering, life-affirming series of shows, the first of which focused on a group of...
View ArticleMovie review: Beautiful Creatures kind of like Twilight, but better
A boy meets a girl, and theyre different from each other, but they dont let that get in the way of romance. OK, stop thinking about Twilight or the much more recent Warm Bodies. This new one,...
View ArticleMovie review: John Dies at the End
SPOILER ALERT! John does NOT die at the end. He dies at about the halfway point. Or maybe its a third of the way in. Hold on, he might not be dead at all.Wow, if that doesnt pique your interest, this...
View ArticleMovie review: Dwayne Johnson cant save Snitch
As I was leaving an advance screening of this new action movie starring Dwayne Johnson, a critic friend of mine said to me, I liked The Tooth Fairy better, referring to an earlier, really bad...
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