Daily Archives: December 28, 2012

“Skyfall” is far and away the best, and the most British of the Daniel Craig-James Bond movies. Director Sam Mendes (“Road to Perdition”) gets Bond back to the basics — bullets, babes, big time bad guys and bawdy humor. And … Continue reading →

Can a movie be utterly done in by a botched ending? Maybe. The one Oliver Stone & Co. cooked up for his take on the drug trade, “Savages,” is dishonest and patronizing. But in a film that overtly references “Butch … Continue reading →

  George Lucas planned “Red Tails,” the film he produced on World War II’s Tuskegee Airmen, with the best of intentions. But he begins this earnest, old-fashioned combat film with its worst scene. It’s a blast of video-game quality aerial … Continue reading →

That Katy Perry is so down to Earth, so darned cute that you can almost forgive her all the questions that her bubble-gum tunes invite from young children. “Mommy, what’s a ‘menage a trois?’” Never mind, dear. And forget that … Continue reading →

  Most of us know to take any election year psychological analyses of political candidates with a shovel-full of grains of salt. You have to filter any book or article that declares Mitt Romney a bully, dog-abuser, a flake for … Continue reading →

It’s tempting to write off the light-on-wit, shorter-on-laughs Young Adult as yet another reminder that “You can’t go home again.” As in, writer Diablo Cody can’t go back and recreate that Juno magic with director Jason Reitman. But forget the … Continue reading →

Terry Crews discovered his special gift way back in high school. No, we’re talking about football, which he grew up playing and which took him to Western Michigan University and a seven year career in the NFL as a defensive … Continue reading →

Get past the cynicism behind Sony wanting to milk another movie from the “Spider-Man,” franchise and you might notice how much more real the web-slinging effects are. This feels less animated, a problem with the Sam Raimi “Spider-Man” pictures of … Continue reading →