6 days ago- I’d like to see a sequel to “Hancock.” Here’s a movie filled with bright ideas, crammed uncomfortably into a story burdened by confusing and often contradictory exposition. It begins as a comedy and ends rather unexpectedly with a flourish of melodrama, but it’s never dull.
13 days ago- There’s something to be said for an idea that won’t go away, especially when it’s conceived by a man whose creative track record remains gloriously unblemished.
25 days ago- If French director Louis Leterrier’s goal in rebooting the “Hulk” saga for the big screen was to distance Marvel’s franchise from Ang Lee’s brooding 2003 deconstruction of the not-so-jolly green giant, you’d have to consider “The Incredible Hulk” a rousing success: While Lee incurred the wrath of comic-book disciples with his thoughtful character study, Leterrier and screenwriter Zak Penn dispense with the angst and focus on the smash.
32 days ago- Fred Simmons is a crude caricature of a human being, boorishly oblivious and misanthropic in his dealings with his adulterous wife (Mary Jane Bostic) and the students at his tae kwon do academy.
32 days ago- Fred Simmons is a crude caricature of a human being, boorishly oblivious and misanthropic in his dealings with his adulterous wife (Mary Jane Bostic) and the students at his Tae Kwon Do academy.
47 days ago- For a generation weaned on the strange, playfully inventive exploits of Indiana Jones, the resurrection of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg’s long-dormant franchise inspires feverish excitement and a hint of trepidation. Could lightning strike a fourth time, despite the 19-year layoff since Harrison Ford last donned his well-worn fedora? Or would his legacy be tarnished by a lackluster reprise?
53 days ago- For “Prince Caspian,” his audacious but curiously unaffecting follow-up to “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” director Andrew Adamson amplifies everything — the feral swordplay, the tender (but regrettably unsubtle) moments when teenage angst gives way to unrestrained infatuation, and the climactic battles pitting the inhabitants of Narnia against an army of assassins.
55 days ago- Following the success of “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” his movie adaptation of the C.S. Lewis classic, New Zealand-born director Andrew Adamson faced a unique hurdle in crafting its follow-up, “Prince Caspian,” which opens Friday and has a special screening Saturday at the Metreon.
67 days ago- Robert Downey Jr. tends to invest his characters with an air of self-satisfied irony, often serving as a de facto narrator whose glib commentary has the effect of distancing him from the action around him. He’s a bemused observer, above it all and in love with the sound of his own voice.
74 days ago- Whether “Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay” could have succeeded in spawning a franchise on its own is questionable, but as a politically charged follow-up to the winning 2004 comedy that introduced the pair as twenty-something stoners in search of the perfect late-night snack, it hits more often than it misses.