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Theatre Hopping: "The Kingdom" and "The Darjeeling Limited"
Peter Berg’s The Kingdom (****) is an action picture with a brain, a revenge movie with a conscience, a film that wants (admirably) to have it both ways, and mostly succeeds. It throws the crew-of-experts police-procedur… -
Theatre Hopping: "3:10 To Yuma" and "The Hunting Party"
James Mangold’s 3:10 To Yuma (****) is a remake of a 1957 film that was itself based on an Elmore Leonard short story that first appeared in (no kidding) Dime Western Magazine. That sounds about right; 3:10 is an unaffec… -
Archive: "The Bourne Supremacy" (from July 2004)
The Bourne Identity was a surprise sleeper hit a couple of summers back, and no wonder; unlike most of its competition, it was smart, slick, and managed to entertain without insulting the intelligence of its audience. It… -
Early Review: "88 Minutes"
According to imdb, Jon Avnet’s 88 Minutes (**) doesn’t have a U.S. released date set, apart from a vague “2008”, and a quick look at the bootleg DVD that’s been floating around the Internet for the last few months confir… -
Theatre Hopping: "Dedication", "Death at a Funeral", and "The Nanny Diaries"
Mandy Moore has been very good in two not-very-good movies this year (that’d be Because I Said So and License to Wed), so it is with a sigh of relief that I can tell you that she has finally made a film that is worthy of… -
Theatre-Hopping: "Superbad" and "The King of Kong"
The Apatow factory has done it again; Superbad (****) is a fast, funny, filthy comedy with a heart and a soul and the balls to mix it all up. Judd Apatow is the producer, Greg Motttolla (who helmed the starkly different … -
Theatre Hopping: "Sunshine", "The Simpsons Movie", "No End In Sight", and "The Bourne Ultimatum"
Apologies (if anyone cares) for the long delay between updates; had family in town for the last week or so, which resulted in time off work, which resulted in little time to write and blog. Yes, that is how it works. At … -
Theatre Hopping: "Transformers", "I Now Prounouce You Chuck and Larry", and "Hairspray"
I’ll tell you this much about Transformers (*)—I kept waiting for it to transform itself into a watchable movie. It doesn’t happen. Michael Bay’s latest opus is one long miscalculation—a thuddingly serious, bloated, over… -
Theatre Hopping: "Talk To Me", "Captivity", "License To Wed", and "Joshua"
Don Cheadle has spent so may years as a scene-stealing supporting player (see Devil in A Blue Dress, Bulworth, Traffic, and the Ocean’s pictures) that it’s somehow not surprising that he turns over so much of the spotlig… -
Theatre Hopping: "Live Free or Die Hard" and "Ratatouille"
There are all sorts of red flags that, with Live Free or Die Hard (***) this venerable action franchise would fall: the generic-looking ads, the re-branding (after three R-rated installments) to a more family-friendly PG…
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Hello, old friends.
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Theatre Hopping: "Lake of Fire" and "My Kid Could Paint That"
Let’s get this out of the way, right up front: Ton...
