Daily Archives: February 12, 2014

Movie Review: Kevin Hart and Regina Hall go toe to toe and rescue “About Last Night…”

Posted on February 12, 2014 by Roger Moore

Kevin Hart brings his “A” game to “About Last Night…” For those of us despairing that we’d ever see the little man at his antic best, after that lame second concert film and half-speed blockbuster “Ride Along,” that’s good news. … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: A radical remake of “Endless Love” strips out much of the drama

Posted on February 12, 2014 by Roger Moore

Kids, this is not your parents’ “Endless Love.” Scott Spencer’s novel of romantic obsession so strong that it flirts with mental illness has had its sharp edges rubbed off, its dramatic weight lifted and its focus shifted in this adaptation … Continue reading →

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At 59, Kevin Costner is still doing it his way

Posted on February 12, 2014 by Roger Moore

These past few years, it’s been pretty hard to get Kevin Costner off his back porch. It’s in Aspen, so we kind of understand. He’s been raising three children under the age of 10, with his second wife, Christine. “Half … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview: Scarlett Johansson gets “Under the Skin”

Posted on February 12, 2014 by Roger Moore

And then some. Yes, the woman who carried “Her” with just her sexy voice is shaking her other assets in this trailer. Oh my. “Alien seductress?” The hitchhikers in Scotland that she falls in with don’t stand a chance.

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Movie Review: The charms of “Winter’s Tale” evade us, and the filmmakers

Posted on February 12, 2014 by Roger Moore

Mark Helprin’s thirty year old fantasy novel “Winter’s Tale” saunters onto the screen as a lovely but slow and emotionally austere experience, a romantic weeper that shortchanges the romance and the tears.< They threw Oscar winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman (“A … Continue reading →

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