New in Town
[ 2009 ] [ Hits:305 ]
Review: New in Town is a sweet, formulaic romantic comedy starring Renée Zellweger and Harry Connick Jr. in a snowbound Minnesota town called New Ulm. Zellweger plays Lucy Hill, a suit executive, who gets a bum job out in freezing Minnesota. She’s been commissioned to make lay-offs and instigate a new product line in the sleepy little town, which relies on the factory. The new gal in town struggles to fit in with her city ways, but eventually grows accustomed to the locals and their folksy warmth. He...
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Next Day Air
[ 2009 ] [ Hits:282 ]
Review: Next Day Air is a Benny Boom film with boom in terms of gunfire and boom in the Afrikaans sense of the word. Boom’s MTV video direction must have raised some eyebrows, because the man’s made a name for himself in the movies. His feature film debut is an uneasy mix of Quentin Tarantino and a Spike Lee joint, starring Donald Faison, Mike Epps, Cisco Reyes and Mos Def. Now dropping Quentin Tarantino and Spike Lee’s names into the melting pot may get your attention, but Next Day Air falls shor...
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Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian
[ 2009 ] [ Hits:321 ]
Review: Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian returns with the same team that brought us Night at the Museum, with Ben Stiller at the helm, writers Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon in the engine room and director, Shawn Levy on the steering wheel. The movie is even bigger than Night at the Museum, by expanding into Washington’s Smithsonian museum, but this bigger is better ideology has its pros and cons. A bigger budget means bigger names, bigger effects and a bigger story, but that always...
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Nine
[ 2009 ] [ Hits:335 ]
Review: There are plenty of musicals that have found their niche on stage and film like Sweeney Todd, The Wizard of Oz, The Little Shop of Horrors and yes, even Grease. However, that doesn't stop me from cringing when I hear the word 'musical'. For heaven's sake, they're meant for Broadway not Hollywood... and if you're not examining the behind-the-scenes gravity like in Hamlet 2 or Every Little Step, then the only point of adapting to film is making the musical more accessible to those that don't live ...
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No Strings Attached
[ Hits:366 ]
Review: No Strings Attached is not about puppets. It's a film about friends with benefits or f**k buddies, a fairly new term that has developed over the last twenty years. It's that agreed upon relational state that prioritizes sex over intimacy in a user relationship. Some would say this describes how every relationship they've been in has worked, but in this case it's a two-way street. Well, there's the problem. At some point, the sexual intimacy of a friends with benefits arrangement leads to one par...
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Notes on a Scandal
[ 2006 ] [ Hits:280 ]
Review: Notes on a Scandal is a gripping story that is elevated by the performances of its two lead female actresses. Dame Judi Dench, and Cate Blanchett were both nominated for Oscars as a result of their fine acting, and one can almost sympathise with Dench for being absent from the awards ceremony. Who would want to claim an Oscar for a role they may be embarrassed about? There probably is a better reason for her absenteeism, but someone playing the character of Barbara Covett would probably need a h...
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