‘Mother and Child’, a poignant ‘slice of life’ story of rediscovery
“Mother and Child” is presented in the allegory style made famous by the sensational Oscar® winning movie ‘Crash’ (2005) where independent stories are destined to have their characters’ lives become interrelated. Is it destiny, fate, or simply, a fact of life.
The drama centers on three [...]
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 [...]
Shrek Forever After
Dreamworks seems bored with the ogre who laid the golden egg. “Shrek Forever After,” the fourth film in the lucrative franchise, barely tampers with the Shrek formula (one-liners, flatulence jokes, pop tunes) and not enough to breathe life into the exhausted series.
Shrek (voiced by Mike Myers) is feeling buried under the celebrity, [...]
MacGruber
The yearlong ’80s flashback that is 2010 continues with “MacGruber,” a comedy that summons up memories of mullets, “MacGyver” and Mike Myers.
A blood-spattered, hit-or-miss, “out there” character comedy of the “Wayne’s World”/”Austin Powers” school, it manages to be nostalgic and profane in equal measures, a movie that’s retro and yet retrofitted [...]
Micmacs (2010) – Movie Review
Amazed by Amelie, yet underwhelmed by A Very Long Engagement, I really didn’t know quite what to expect with Micmacs, the third film I’ve seen from famed French director Jean Pierre Jeunet. Sadly, Micmacs falls a bit short of both other films. Micmacs follows the main character Bazil, who [...]