Drama Rated R
“Director Vadim Perelman fetishizes the threat of violence with his caressing camera.
Romantic Comedy Rated R
Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Samantha (Kim Cattrall), Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) have grown up since the early episodes of the HBO series (which was when I last saw them). They’ve gone from being shallow fantasy figures to something resembling real women. As a result, Sex and the City makes good use of
Romantic Comedy Rated PG-13
“Something didn’t feel quite right, but it wasn’t until the climax when it hit me…
Action/Adventure Rated PG
The original Indiana Jones movie is goofy and adolescent in a good way – the sort of rollicking adventure a gaggle of innocent kids might dream up in their backyard on a summer afternoon. Director Steven Spielberg and producer George Lucas aimed to make an homage to the movie serials of their youth and they
Action/Adventure Rated PG-13
“A blueprint for how a blockbuster sequel should be done.”
Drama, Thriller Rated NR
“It isn’t long into Touch of Evil when you realize that anything goes.”
“A juvenile piece of cultural appropriation, The Forbidden Kingdom doesn’t even have the good manners to focus on the two martial-arts masters.
Producer Judd Apatow may be pushing his casting luck with the bland Jason Segel, who plays a music composer trying to recover from being dumped by a television star (Kristen Bell). Thankfully Segel, an Apatow regular, also wrote the script, which in between the outrageous sexual hijinks actually owns up to the reality that there
Thriller Rated R
“Pacino never looks very frazzled, even as his lethal deadline approaches. He only gets louder.
Horror Rated R
Despite all the subtext writer-director Jay Lee tries to squeeze into Zombie Strippers – involving everything from the Iraq war to the degradation of women in the sex industry to the psychology of sex workers themselves – it is still far outweighed by lengthy striptease sequences. In other words, there is an awful lot of
