I had a girlfriend who took 200 dollars in 20s out of my wallet and ripped them up before tossing them out of the window of a moving car. If she had superpowers I don’t doubt that she would have killed me. For me Ivan Reitman’s My Super Ex-Girlfriend isn’t a romantic comedy – it’s … Continue reading
I approach M Night Shymalan’s films with a modified version of the auteur theory – I don’t think that he’s a great director, but he’s an idiosyncratic one, and as a result every movie he makes, no matter how bad, is interesting to examine. And he’s made some bad ones. I would rank Unbreakable among … Continue reading
Some movies feel effortless, like the crew and actors came on the set and magic made itself. You, Me and Dupree feels effortless – but more like no one made even bothered to try to make a decent movie. The film is a mishmash of half-baked jokes, sitcom scenarios and Owen Wilson attempting to float … Continue reading
There’s a moment in the “space bubble” segment of The Fountain where I realized the tattoos on Hugh Jackman’s arms are counting off years, like the rings inside the tree sitting behind him. It’s one of those moments that sent shivers down my spine because of the way it combines concept, theme and imagery into … Continue reading
As you enjoy fireworks and booze and the rhythmic slap-slap of bellies in cabanas, allow us to do our part to bring the slightly rudderless ship known as The Black Pearl into port a little early. You saw Devin’s glowing review, and in the recent spirit of things here’s our contrasting tag team variant … Continue reading
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl had the absurdity of its very premise going for it: how could a movie based on an amusement park ride, of all the creatively bankrupt things, turn out to be good? But it was – the film was a blast from beginning to end, it gave … Continue reading
Welcome to the tag team review of one of the most anticipated films in the lifetime of someone who hasn’t been alive for very long. Superman Returns is one of the big ones. One of the A-List comic book franchises. Bigger than anything but perhaps Batman and Spidey. lot of false starts, big names, and … Continue reading
I was so excited to write my review of Wassup Rockers because I was going to be the guy who went on and on about how similar this movie is to The Warriors, which seems to be a film that haunts me in an almost Freudian way. Imagine my disappointment when I read an interview … Continue reading
Maybe it’s because I’ve been waist deep in Warner Bros’ John Wayne/John Ford box set the last two weeks, but The Hidden Blade, the new film from Twilight Samurai director Yoji Yamada, really reminded me of one of Ford’s more elegiac Westerns. Hidden Blade is set at the twilight of the age of samurai, as … Continue reading
I didn’t just not like Click, the new movie where Adam Sandler plays a Jim Carrey role; the movie actually made me mad. Not because it’s not funny – I expected that. And not because it’s endlessly mean-spirited – every Adam Sandler film is like that. What made me mad was that the central conceit … Continue reading