The Spy Next Door
Does anyone else miss the days of Rumble in the Bronx? Police Story? You know, when Jackie Chan could, or was, allowed to still do stunts? I thought so. Unfortunately, those days are long since passed, and now Jackie Chan movies are just lame hollow shells of something that can never be [...]
Robin Hood
You can dress it up or throw mud in its eye, but the enduring appeal of the Robin Hood legend is simple: treachery bested by archery.
The other night, Turner Classic Movies aired the evergreen 1938 classic “The Adventures of Robin Hood” (Errol Flynn in staggering three-strip Technicolor, directed by Michael Curtiz and William [...]
Greenberg
Fifteen years ago, Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller) refused to sign a major-label record deal and walked out on his bandmates moved to New York City. Ironically, now that he is back in Los Angeles dogsitting for his brother’s family while they are on a working vacation in Vietnam (one senses that there is no other [...]
Get Him to the Greek
Extremely raunchy, “Get Him to the Greek” is also very funny.
Like the film that first paired Jonah Hill and Russell Brand, ” Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” the new comedy is unexpectedly sincere about the thing that matters most in a relationship: trust.
It is also creatively diverse in exploring the ways boy-men — [...]
A Nightmare on Elm Street
As someone who owns all eight Freddy Krueger movies, including the good, the bad and the ugly, I was looking forward to the rebooted version of A Nightmare on Elm Street with hesitant anticipation, well aware that while glossy and full of beautiful actors, it would have to get things just [...]