British comedy duo Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, along with director Edgar Wright, have collaborated on modern cult classics “Shaun of the Dead” and “Hot Fuzz”. The third film in their self-titled “Cornetto” trilogy is “The World’s End”, a comedy about drinking beer and this past summer’s continuing theme of zombies that, by the end, […]
In what was a summer of the “action crime comedy”, “2 Guns” pulled-off this genre better than some (“R.I.P.D”, “The Heat”) and not as good as others (“Red 2”, “White House Down”). But even though it features two big stars, “2 Guns” is unnecessarily too complex, and ends-up being too ridiculous for its own good. […]
If you Google Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, you’ll find that 2005’s “Wedding Crashers” is still one of the most popular films of their careers. Since that film came out audiences have wanted more of these guys together on screen. After eight years, they re-collaborated (yes, that is a word) for “The Internship”. Vaughn and […]
While I wasn’t a huge fan of director Terrence Malick’s 2011 Best Picture Oscar nominee, “The Tree of Life”, the trailer made for Malick’s latest film, “To the Wonder”, is fantastic. In fact, it’s one of the best trailers I’ve seen in a long time and it gave me hope that “To the Wonder” would […]
Fresh-off his role as “Jack Reacher”, Tom Cruise plays another Jack – astronaut Jack Harper – in the sci-fi adventure “Oblivion”, – which part post-apocalyptic action film and part futuristic soap opera. The year is 2077. 60 years earlier our Moon was destroyed by enemy aliens, intent on taking-over Earth. Without the Moon our planet […]
“Admission” has been promoted as a romantic comedy. It stars Tina Fey and Mr. Rom-Com himself: Paul Rudd (seriously, look at his IMDb page). But, in truth, “Admission” isn’t what the trailers and commercials tried to make it out to be. In fact there may not be a genre for this film. Fey plays Portia, […]
“A Good Day to Die Hard” is the fifth installment in this loooong-running series. Seriously, the original came-out 25 years ago! But Bruce Willis can still kick butt. Sadly, that’s not enough to make “DH5” a winner. Once again Willis plays (now veteran) NYC cop John McClane. He learns that his son Jack (played by […]
Part political thriller, part crime caper, with a little romantic drama thrown in, “Broken City” was one of the first big releases, and first bombs of 2013. Mark Wahlberg stars as Billy, a NYC detective who becomes a private eye after an incident that occurred seven years earlier forces him to resign from the police […]
“Django Unchained” comes from the insanely creative mind of Quentin Tarantino – the Oscar winning writer/director of “Pulp Fiction”, “Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2”, and 2009’s “Inglourious Basterds”, for which then relatively unknown actor (to American movie audiences) Christoph Waltz won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar. Waltz reunites with Tarantino for “Django”. This time […]
It’s not easy for a smaller studio to break into the world of big-budget animated films. Many have tried – most have failed. The latest attempt comes, not from Hollywood, but Bollywood! “Delhi Safari” is the first feature-length 3D animated film produced in India. The original version starred the voices of major Bollywood stars. The […]