Action/Adventure Rated PG-13
“Is there a less promising director-actor team at work today than Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe?
“Agreeable cheese.
“…may mark the beginning of Mickey Rourke’s re-descent (cooing to a cockatoo in Russian will do that).
Feeling dispassionate about Titanic is a bit like being stranded alone on the North Atlantic. People either looooove the box-office and Oscar juggernaut (it’s actually considered in some circles to be the best film of all time) or find it a crime against the cinema (that’s actually a polite euphemism compared to the way other
Sherlock Holmes isn’t very good, but it does give you hope that the franchise – and this achingly wants to be a long-running franchise – might some day amount to something. In other words, it’s not a debacle, which is what I expected from a period action flick by director Guy Ritchie with Robert Downey
Another stunning animated entry from 2009, this fantasia from director Shane Acker, an extension of his 2005 Oscar-winning short, is as visually intricate and detailed as anything Pixar has ever done. The storytelling may not be as strong, but you almost don’t care. Acker has envisioned a post-apocalyptic world in which exquisitely detailed rag dolls
"A tiny detail among the bonanza of visual wonders in Avatar convinced me the movie had achieved not only technical mastery, but something more…"
Action/Adventure Rated PG
“Did no one bother to mention to Burton that Lewis Carroll’s 1865 story was not a Lord of the Rings primer but, in fact, a comedy?
Action/Adventure Rated R
Quentin Tarantino has finally made a movie that means something, though I think that’s happened entirely by accident. And it’s not a happy one. Inglourious Basterds is Tarantino’s Holocaust comedy, and if that sounds gauche, it’s nothing compared to the film itself. The movie may take place in the midst of World War II, before
“The world will end not with a whimper, but a bang – and another bang, and another bang, and another…
