Goldmember finds Mike Myers returning to his most successful franchise, but desperately running out of steam and resorting to yet another stab at jokes that hit-and-missed the first two times around. Goldmember is probably the worst in the Austin Powers series (though I really enjoyed the second one I didn’t think the original was all […]
It would be a hard heart indeed that couldn’t find a bit of affection for a movie that starts with two black police officers going undercover at a Klan rally and ends with what appears to be an invasion of Cuba. That movie, Bad Boys II, which comes raging into summertime theaters still woozy from
The movie industry’s biggest release of his time involves the CIA dealing with a rogue nuclear weapon that’s landed in the U.S. via American-hating zealots. Is Hollywood tapping into our worst terrors or distancing us from them by placing them on that giant screen of fantasies? Last week it was political potboiler The Sum of
A fantasia of Almodóvar’s trademark hang-ups that nonetheless surpasses his previous outings in scope, structure, and heart, the movie is a marvelous, noir-inspired meditation on love, sex, and identity that pulses with florid passion. It may be the best film of the year. Almodóvar’s narrative is a marvel of temporal-shifting beauty, seamlessly moving back and
The film tells the warped tale of a couple of disillusioned, attractive femmes fatale named Manu and Nadine (former real-life porn actresses Karen Bach and Raffaela Anderson) who generate a perverse sense of pleasure through sexual and homicidal mayhem. The depiction of their downfall is gruesomely chronicled porn actress Manu, a gang rape victim that
First-time director Wych Kaosayananda prefers to go by the shortened Kaos. It’s pronounced “chaos,” and now we know why. Someone test this man for attention deficit disorder, for he can’t go ten minutes without destroying something. And not just lighting it up I mean full on decimation. Ballistic has three or four unrelated, pre-planned action
If you start a movie by telling people how it’s going to end, well, telling us how it gets there better be one hell of a good time. And to be sure, Bandits begins with its ending, but the story leading up to the dramatic finale is just about as lame as they come. Doing
Without paying close attention, one could wander into The Banger Sisters expecting a warm and fuzzy friendship yarn delivered by an Oscar-caliber trio of Goldie Hawn, Susan Sarandon, and Geoffrey Rush. You’d be half right. The cast shows up, but the film substitutes “warm and fuzzy” with vulgar dialogue and gratuitously sexual escapades. This is
Making stories about celebrities who mess up their lives has become a kind of cottage industry these days. Tabloid magazines have thrived on it for years. The E! True Hollywood Story and Behind the Music have extended celeb-thrashing to TV. Finally the big screen has embraced such tales, but Auto Focus proves, once again, there’s
The mythology of Howard Hughes is quite possibly bigger than the man could ever live up to. Already the subject of a handful of movies and over 100 books, the particulars of the Hughes legend are widely known. But leave it to Martin Scorsese to spin the eccentric’s life into a more coherent if sprawling
