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In his latest movie, ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’, Wes Anderson has created a murder mystery wrapped in a caper, hidden in action movie, that’s ultimately another of his broken family fables. Somehow it all works. ...
In his latest movie, ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’, Wes Anderson has created a murder mystery wrapped in a caper, hidden in action movie, that’s ultimately another of his broken family fables. Somehow it all works. ...
It’s an odd time for 3D movies. The eye-poking, HDTV-busting format has already tired out audiences as quickly as it did when Hollywood launched the 3D trend the first two times in the 1950s and ’80s. However, the new ...
I once saw Liam Neeson joke in an interview that he only signed onto ‘Taken’ for cash assuming that it would go straight to video. Instead, the flick was one of the biggest hits of his career, and now Oskar Schindler i...
Whether you’ll get any enjoyment out of ‘3 Days to Kill’ will come down entirely to your tolerance for the brand of Eurotrash action that producer Luc Besson has cranked out for over a decade. Ever since he essen...
For years, Paul W.S. Anderson has been dismissed as “that other Paul Anderson.” Fair enough. When you share a name with the best director of your generation and your highest profile works are adaptations of the ‘...
Since two remakes (‘RoboCop’ and ‘About Last Night’) weren’t enough from Hollywood this week, we’re also treated to a rehash of Franco Zeffirelli’s 1981 multi-Razzie Award nominee ‘Endless Love’...
When it was announced that Sony would remake ‘RoboCop’, the fanboy community exploded in a fit of rage. There was good reason. Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 trash masterpiece is a perfect piece of subversive satire masqu...
It’s always a bad sign when a movie gets bumped from a prestigious awards-gobbling fall release into the January/February dumping ground. It’s an even worse sign when that movie is a Hollywood superstar packed affair a...
On paper, ‘The Lego Movie’ should be a heartless blockbuster toy advertisement, much like ‘Transformers’ or ‘Battleship’. Thankfully, the project fell into the hands of co-directors Phil Lord an...
About fifteen years ago, ‘That Awkward Moment’ still would have been a bad movie, but at least it would have been a failed entry in a common ’90s genre. As it stands now, the film is dull, derivative and out of d...
Writer/director Jason Reitman burst onto the scene with the indie-twee equivalent of a bang with ‘Thank You for Smoking’ and ‘Juno’. Unfortunately, the quirky charms of those flicks faded fast on repeated v...
It’s been quite a while since the monster from Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ shuffled across screens in a Hollywood horror yarn. A decent reboot for the character might actually be worth offering a fistful ...