In a not too distant future, robots have replaced humans in the boxing ring. For these impending incarnations of ourselves, the battering of skin and bone has become a little too mundane, apparently. Instead, a form of fantasy boxing has emerged, indulging far more elaborate fancies of large-scale destruction as mindless entertainment. Charlie Kenton (Hugh […]
Betty… Betty’s got issues. Loads of them. So many issues that they made a movie about her that runs over three hours long. As Betty, Béatrice Dalle makes her screen debut, taking on the role of a young and brazen twentysomething that’s clearly painfully stricken with some mental illness and probably more than one. As
Boy, looking back at Berverly Hills Cop, almost 20 years after its original release, it’s easy to see why people fell in love with the movie, earning a then unheard-of of $316 million worldwide (the highest grossing R-rated movie ever) and propelling Eddie Murphy from a funny ensemble player in films like Trading Places and
As a youngster I faced my fair share of bullies, and like the lead character in Big Fat Liar, my desire to get even with those who wronged me consumed my existence. This was before the days of Home Alone, where coming up with an arsenal of tools for payback meant combing through the dark
By 1967, Frank Abagnale Jr. (Leonardo DiCaprio) had become the youngest con man to make the FBI’s “Most Wanted List.” He’d cashed millions of dollars in forged checks, posed as a co-pilot for a major airline, landed a job as a surgeon in Atlanta, and passed the bar exam in New Orleans. At the time,
Angels fight in slow motion. Angels show skin in slow motion. And most importantly, Angels explode in slow motion. Thus we have the three immutable laws of the reinvented Charlie’s Angels, that most improbable crossover hit from the 1970s TV show. Alas, what made the original film such a guilty pleasure wears thin in this
Look up trinity in the dictionary and it will tell you that it’s the union of three closely related members. That’s a clever guise for this, the third movie about the half-human, half-vampire Marvel comic book hero named Blade. Yet, the film that’s lurking under this misnomer is remarkably dissimilar to the original spectacle of
Typecasting. Definition, when writers pigeonhole you into one role, assuming you can do nothing more than that. However, typecasting is not just a product of the writers. It is not just a product of your Hollywood image. It’s a product of what you choose to do. Case in point Martin Lawrence, whose new movie Blue
Transformers: Dark of the Moon is a monstrous waste of time. I’ve never witnessed something that had so much, and yet so little, going on. For over two and a half hours this film hammers your senses with extra precision given the 3D glasses and you come out the other side extra pissed off. The
After a string of interesting but fairly anonymous supporting roles, Saturday Night Live alumnus Kristen Wiig has made a spectacular transition to lead actress on the big screen with Bridesmaids, a raucous comedy with a title that will have unbeknownst males dragged along to the cinema expecting the worst. Acting as both star and co-screenwriter,
