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Monthly Archives: July 2013
Critical Consensus: Decent reviews for “Turbo,” mixed for “RED,” poor for “Girl Most Likely”
Not a great summer for animation, at least if you’re somebody who expects the phrase “instant classic” to be attached to whatever Pixar, Disney, Dreamworks, Universal or Blue Sky sends out. The reviews for “Turbo” have turned out to be … Continue reading
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Jamie Foxx debuts Electro at Comic Con
Here’s the teaser clip Sony will use to plug next year’s “Spider Man” sequel. Jamie Foxx as a super-villain.
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Movie Review: More of the same, some of it fun, in “RED 2”
They bicker, emotionally blackmail each other, kiss and make up. Because they have history. But Bruce Willis and John Malkovich aren’t the “real” couple at the heart of “RED 2,” the action comedy sequel about retired government assassins. They’re just … Continue reading
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Downey, Tatum, Jackman and Wahlberg top Forbes “Highest Paid Actors” list
This isn’t the annual assessment of bang-for-your-movie-investment-buck list that Forbes compiles, telling us which stars are actually worth the big salaries they command, in box office, and which aren’t. It’s a simple statement of earnings over the past year. “Iron … Continue reading
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Benedict Cumberbatch IS Julian Assange in “The Fifth Estate”
Self-important, pretentious, deeply-flawed. It’s a trifle too “on the nose” casting, yes? Putting the fellow who dazzles playing the troubled Brit TV Sherlock Holmes in the role of Wikileaks Emperor Julian Assange in “The Fifth Estate.” But man, he’s on … Continue reading
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“Dear Mr. Watterson” is the new documentary about “Calvin & Hobbes”
Yes, kids, there used to be things called “newspapers.” With what we called, back then “Funny pages.” And the best thing ever to hit those funny pages was the sublimely silly, serenely insightful “Calvin & Hobbes,” a dizzy take on … Continue reading
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Critical Consensus: “Turbo” barely makes it around the track
Dreamworks, like Pixar, wasn’t able to put its best foot forward with a big summer movie this year. The idea cupboards at both dream factories seem pretty bare. “Monsters University” was hyped and promoted to beat the band, but thin … Continue reading
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Today’s screening, “Fruitvale Station”
The Weinstein Co. may roll this indie drama into many more markets, simply due to its topicality. It’s a true story about a young black man with a checkered past who gets into a dust-up with BART (Bay Area) transit … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “Girl Most Likely” doesn’t succeed
“Girl Most Likely” is a comedy from Kristen Wiig’s alternate universe career — the career she might have had without “Bridesmaids.” A daft, thin and instantly forgettable farce about a woman of once-great promise who fakes a suicide attempt to … Continue reading
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Movie Review: “The Conjuring” isn’t “Insidious” enough
Sadie knows. The dog always knows not to go into the haunted house. But since this was 1971, and the world, much less Rhode Island’s Perron family, had not seen “The Exorcist” and the generations of ultra-realistic horror movies and … Continue reading
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