Category: Ratings
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Knight and Day is Cruise at his frenetic best and Diaz ain’t bad either
Knight and Day -2010 Director James Mangold Starring Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Peter Sarsgaard, Paul Dano, Maggie Grace, Marc Blucas, Viola Davis, Jordi Molla Screenplay Patrick O’Neill and about 11 others From out of development hell, Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz play what is essentially a North by Northwest with Diaz in the Cary Grant role…
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Baruchel makes The Sorcerer’s Apprentice a worthy subject
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice 2010 Directed By John Turtletaub Starring Nicolas Cage, Jay Baruchel, Alfred Molina, Alice Krige, Monica Bellucci, Teresa Palmer Screenplay by Matt Lopez, Lawrence Konner, Mark Rosenthal very loosely based on the poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is a point just past half way of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice when the young…
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The Expendables shows Stallone can still make films, sort of…
The Expendables Directed by Sylvester Stallone Starring Sylvester Stallone, Mickey Rourke, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Terry Crews, Steve Austin, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzeneggar Screenplay by Sylvester Stallone, David Callaham Somewhere, beneath all the human growth hormones and machismo, lies the heart of a poet. The man who wrote and directed Rocky…
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Robin Hood sucks all of the fun out of life
Robin Hood (2010) Directed by Ridley Scott Starring Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Matthew Macfadyen, Mark Strong, Mark Addy, Kevin Durand, William Hurt, Danny Huston, Oscar Isaac Screenplay Brian Helgeland Ridley Scott has made some of the best films of all time (Alien, Black Hawk Down), some great films (Gladiator, Blade Runner, Thelma and Louise, American…
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It’s Complicated…and pretty nice, too
It’s Complicated Written and Directed by Nancy Meyers Starring – Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin, John Krasinski, Lake Bell, Rita Wilson, Mary Kay Place, Hunter Parrish, Zoe Kazan There are so many ways this movie could have turned out so wrong in so many ways. As it is, it plays like kind of like…
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What do they sell over there?…Eat Pray Love
Eat Pray Love Director – Ryan Murphy Starring – Julia Roberts, Billy Crudup, James Franco, Richard Jenkins, Javier Bardem, Viola Davis, Christine Hakim Screenplay by – Ryan Murphy, Jennifer Salt based on the story by Elisabeth Gilbert There are many times in the midst of watching Eat Pray Love that I feel myself wanting to…
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A steaming pile of Grown Ups is not as horrible as I thought.
Grown Ups Director – Dennis Dugan Starring – Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Kevin James, Rob Schneider, David Spade, Salma Hayek, Maria Bello, Maya Rudolph and a bunch of cameos. Screenplay – Adam Sandler, Fred Wolf In the spirit of Couples Resort, and every other film where people went to a nice place for a vacation…
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The Losers strives to reach mediocrity
The Losers Director – Sylvain White Starring – Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Zoe Saldana, Chris Evans, Jason Patric, Idris Elba, Columbus Short, Óscar Jaenada, Holt MaCallany Screenplay by – Peter Berg, James Vanderbilt Zoe Saldana is on a roll now, as the Star Trek reboot and Avatar have shown. She figured prominently in the ad campaign for…
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Millennium Trilogy, Part 2: The Girl Who Played With Fire continues a fearless journey
The Girl Who Played With Fire Directed by Daniel Alfredson Written by Jonas Frykberg based on a story by Stieg Larsson Starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist There is a moment 27 minutes into The Girl Who Played With Fire when Mikael Blomkvist, working on a sex trafficking investigation, gets a ride from his sister over…
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Sex and The City 2 presses all hot buttons very routinely
Sex and The City 2 Written and Directed by Michael Patrick King Starring – Sara Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis, Chris Noth, John Corbett One gets the feeling, watching 4 very distinctive, yet alternately shallow (at the beginning) and unconvincingly deep (always just before credits roll) women, that Michael Patrick King must…
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