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Red Tails (2012): A VICTORIOUS, WINNING WRECK
Though the premise seems relentlessly lucrative, the rumor is that George "StarWarBucks" Lucas spent more than a decade getting a distributor for Red Tails. This true life action/drama about WWII's Tuskegee Airmen, the first all-black air squa...
Posted on 3 May 2012 | 5:06 am
Chronicle (2012): CARRIE FOR DUDES
High school dweeb Andrew Detmer (Dane DeHaan) has a dying mother (Bo Peterson) and an abusive, alcoholic dad (Michael Kelly). His cooler cousin Matt Garrety (Alex Russell) tries to get Andrew to embrace the usual high school social activities ...
Posted on 3 May 2012 | 5:04 am
The Three Stooges (2012): MORE FUN THAN A PIE IN THE FACE
It may sound sacrilegious, but Peter and Bobby Farrelly have done right by comedy icons The Three Stooges with a film—contemporary in tone, but retro in spirit—that actually feels like something the original Stooges might have made...
Posted on 3 May 2012 | 5:03 am
Safe (2012): THE BALD AND THE BRILLIANT—AND THEIR BLAH BUDDY MOVIE
Action star Jason Statham takes on a mini-me in Boaz Yakin's Safe, a high-octane genre picture that spends too little time building relationships between allies and too much—if there can be too much—on ass-kicking and skull-cracking. Writer-dir...
Posted on 3 May 2012 | 5:02 am
The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012): GREAT FUN FOR ANY AGE!
The Pirates! Band of Misfits is one of the funniest animated films in years, or to put it in terms you scallywags can understand: it's a treasure trove of laughs. Coming from Aardman Studios, the outfit responsible for Walla...
Posted on 3 May 2012 | 5:01 am
American Reunion (2012): A FOURTH SLICE? FINE BY ME
With three previous theatrical installments—plus four direct-to-DVD iterations—the American Pie franchise hasn't been dormant, but neither has it been true to its roots. Until now. American Reunion reunites the original cast of the ...
Posted on 3 May 2012 | 5:00 am
Lockout (2012): HOSTAGES—IN SPACE!
A sleek, slick and shameless rip-off of John Carpenter's Snake Plissken films Escape from New York and Escape from L.A., Lockout sees super-spy Snow (Guy Pearce) framed for espionage and sent to a frozen future-prison to rescue the President's d...
Posted on 3 May 2012 | 4:59 am
The Lucky One (2012): THIS SPARKS NEVER IGNITES
Author Nicholas Sparks has certainly found the magic formula for novels that translate into box office success. With sizable hits including The Notebook, Dear John and Message in a Bottle, Sparks has defined the modern-day, movie-friendly ...
Posted on 3 May 2012 | 4:58 am
The Avengers (2012): MARVEL'S MIGHTIEST MEET MICHAEL BAY
The bad news is that if you haven't seen Thor, Captain America and Iron Man 2—that's six hours and three minutes of homework—The Avengers won't make sense. The good news is if you're a human under the age of 45, you probably already hav...
Posted on 3 May 2012 | 4:57 am
The Bully Project (2011): TAKING THE FIGHT TO BULLIES
More of an aggrieved cry for help than a detail-oriented call to arms, Bully addresses the issue of adolescent torment not through statistical analysis or activist agitation but, rather, through the heartrending stories of children suf...
Posted on 1 April 2012 | 2:52 pm
Mirror Mirror (2012): THE GOOFIEST OF THEM ALL
Strictly for kids, but pure movie fun nonetheless, Mirror Mirror is the fairest family entertainment of all—at least for this weekend when all the youngest kids have to look forward to is another repeated viewing of The Lorax. This often...
Posted on 1 April 2012 | 2:51 pm
Wrath of the Titans (2012): WRATH OF BLAH
An improvement upon its predecessor Clash of the Titans only insofar as this sequel doesn't sully a beloved original, Wrath of the Titans delivers blockbuster bluster with single-minded blandness. Jonathan Liebesman's follow-up to Lo...
Posted on 1 April 2012 | 2:29 pm
Young Justice: New Alliances
The Thundercats go on the offensive taking down Mumm-Ra’s lizard army piece by piece. Lion-O appeals to the soldiers to turn against their overlord, but Mumm-Ra won’t see his army crushed so easily. He tasks Slithe with recruiting two new a...
Posted on 25 March 2012 | 7:28 am
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2011): THE BEST OF THE TRILOGY
It is a tempting bit of exaggeration to say that filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky saved lives with their previous two Paradise Lost films, helping to get three men out of jail and one of them off death row. Shining ...
Posted on 24 March 2012 | 1:00 pm
Wanderlust (2011): FAMILIAR, BUT FUNNY
Financially, Wanderlust will fare just fine, buoyed both by Aniston's very real (and earned) star power and by the goodwill it earns by being a resolutely ‘R' comedy in a mild February of milder releases. And if director and co-writer David...
Posted on 24 March 2012 | 12:56 pm
The Kid with a Bike (2011): COMING OF AGE WITHOUT CAUSE FOR NOSTALGIA
The Dardenne brothers have acquired something of a niche reputation for spare dramas using relatively unknown actors. In this often heart-rending saga of a dysfunctional childhood they acquire themselves a star in Cécile De France. ...
Posted on 24 March 2012 | 12:55 pm
Good Deeds (2012): EAT PERRY LOVE
Tyler Perry's Good Deeds may be the first white people problems movie ever made by a black filmmaker. In it, a software company CEO (Perry) reconsiders his life choices after helping a cleaning lady (Thandie Newton) makes him realize that his...
Posted on 24 March 2012 | 12:54 pm
Act of Valor (2011): REEL SEALS DON’T FEEL REAL
The main selling point of Act of Valor is that it's a military action picture starring actual Navy SEALs. Filmmakers Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh initially set out to make Navy-approved recruitment videos and they transformed their effort int...
Posted on 24 March 2012 | 12:53 pm
Gone (2012): REVENGE IS A CITY SERVED COLD
In Heitor Dhalia's Gone, Amanda Seyfried plays a young woman named Jill, a jittery waitress convinced that the man who abducted her a few years earlier is going to return for the one girl who got away. When her sister goes missing, Jill has no doub...
Posted on 24 March 2012 | 12:52 pm
Friends with Kids (2011): SEXY, SOPHISTICATED AND SAVVY
In the past decade, Jennifer Westfeldt has co-written and starred in two well-received films (Kissing Jessica Stein and Ira And Abby) and now, with Friends With Kids, she's added directing to her list of credits, so with this engaging ...
Posted on 24 March 2012 | 12:47 pm
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