Monthly Archives: December 2012

Rob Reiner’s late-career return to the sentimental youth-oriented films of his early days as director is a welcome one for any parent who longs for movies that you can watch with your children. But much of the magic of “Flipped” … Continue reading →

  That “tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme” returns to the screen, now in 3D. But Beauty and the Beast, the greatest animated film ever made and one of the screen’s great musicals, hardly needs this … Continue reading →

There’s magic in poverty, wonder in the squalor of impoverished lives on an island that’s being swallowed by erosion and rising sea levels off the Southern Louisana coast. That’s what New York filmmaker Benh Zeitlin discovered in “Beasts of the … Continue reading →

There will be bigger movies this summer, and better ones and worse ones. But there will not be a dumber movie than “Battleship.” Ponderous and pandering, shameless and head-slappingly silly, this Navy vs. Aliens epic delivers a few thrills and … Continue reading →

You could, if you wanted, sit in a dark theater and simply check off the simularities between the blockbuster “Bridesmaids” and this fall’s “Bridesmaids” knockoff, titled “Bachelorette.” Female bodily function jokes? Check. Inappropriate come-ons on an airline flight? Check. Crass, … Continue reading →

Discuss This: Comments(2) | Add to del.icio.us | Digg it One thing we can conclude conclusively from Rowan Atkinson’s second big screen outing as Johnny English. He would have been a FAR superior revived Inspector Clouseau to Steve Martin’s embarrassing … Continue reading →

  Perhaps, like me and hundreds of millions of others, you skipped Paul W.S. Anderson’s befouling of “The Three Musketeers” in 3D on its opening weekend. This is just a short note, well, a review, to point out our collective … Continue reading →

  The stench of cheap booze, stale cigarettes, newsprint and pre-air conditioning sweat wafts off the screen in “The Rum Diary,” Johnny Depp’s second shot at paying tribute to his friend, gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson. Though it only rarely … Continue reading →