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Archive: "Raising Helen" (from June 2004)
It can get a little lonely working the movie beat, and reviewing bad movies is a particularly solitary business. It’s not hard finding someone to accompany you to, say, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but when the… -
Theatre Hopping: "Hatchet" and "Shoot 'Em Up"
The tagline (and overall sales pitch) of Hatchet (*) is “Old School American Horror”, and in spite of the considerable buzz this (apparently) low-budget item is picking up all over the World Wide Interwebs, I call bullsh… -
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… -
This Week on DVD: "Breach", "Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls", "Venus"
Yes, I know, "Venus" came out a couple of weeks ago. I missed it. Shoot me. Breach **** An uncommonly intelligent thriller with an emphasis on characterization and real tension over empty shoot-outs and fake thrills. Ter… -
This Week on DVD: "Norbit"
Norbit (no stars) It’s not just a poorly made movie, but a loathsome and distasteful one to boot, consisting of one joke, over and over again: that fat people are repulsive. Eddie Murphy co-wrote and co-produced, so he h… -
Short Review: "Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls"
Lest the title tip you off (aside from that awkward double possessive, does a second-time director deserve to have his name in the title? I don’t recall seeing Martin Scorsese’s The Departed or Spike Lee’s Inside Man las… -
Review: "Norbit"
“Well,” I announced to my wife, “I’m off to see Norbit!” I remember it like it was just this morning (okay, it was)… a happier time, when my heart was still filled with joy and tenderness, and hope for the cinema as an a… -
Review: "Home of the Brave"
Poor Tommy Yates (Brian Presley), one of the heroes of the Iraq war drama Home of the Brave, has fallen so far after his return home that the best job he can get is (shudder) working the box office at a movie theatre. He… -
DVD Review: "Click"
Click is not just a bad film, but an insulting one—insulting in its contempt for its audience, and in its sheer incompetence as filmmaking. The central idea is marginally clever (man gets a "universal remote" that allows…
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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...
