Monthly Archives: January 2013

“A Good Old Fashioned Orgy” is a sex romp that flops around more than it romps. But at least there’s plenty of sex, right? Well, yeah — a bit of full frontal nudity and a heaping helping of copulation. But … Continue reading →

Danny Greene was a two-fisted Irish-American street tough who became a force in the Cleveland mob of the 1970s before meeting his predictably unpleasant end. “Kill the Irishman,” the movie about him, is just as predictable — a synthesis of … Continue reading →

“Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules” takes our intrepid wimpy hero through seventh grade — more struggles to be “popular,” more efforts to make his unaffected, unpretentious and childish pal Rowley less of an embarrassment. It makes more of … Continue reading →

The remake of “Arthur” goes wrong some time before the tipsy millionaire shows up in an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. It’s merely the latest amble into tone-deafness for a movie that, despite a lot of funny lines and a committed performance … Continue reading →

The fortieth time you hear the F-bomb in a Medieval setting isn’t nearly as funny as the fourth or fifth. That’s the shortcoming of the central conceit of “Your Highness,” a raunchy stoner comedy in  tights from Team “Pineapple Express.”

uss This: Comments(3) | Add to del.icio.us | Digg it “Terri” is a character dramedy about a depressed, morbidly obese high school boy who wears his pajamas to school “because they’re comfortable.” That’s a sure sign that Terri (Jacob Wysocki) … Continue reading →

The most basic rule of a screen romance is that you have to root for the couple to become a couple. And that just kills “Something Borrowed.” The winsome, girl-next-door charms of Ginnifer Goodwin and the witty way with a … Continue reading →

“Of Gods and Men” is a quietly compelling and sober-minded, if not particularly emotional treatment of an infamous incident in the global clash of “Islamo-fascism” and the West. In Algeria in the mid-90s, a small monastery of Trappist monks elected … Continue reading →

Pairing up Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu pays dividends in the daft feather-light French farce “Potiche,” a period piece designed to remind us of just how far and how fast women have come in the Western world.

Absurdly long, absurdly over the top and absurdly absurd, “Five Five” — the fifth movie in the “Fast and the Furious” franchise, still manages to be more fun than any movie with its outrageous carbon footprint has any right to … Continue reading →