‘Raising Hope’ stays funny – even with a baby
Foxs sitcom has become the latest sleeper hit thats beginning to waken up. On the heels of the start of the second season comes the DVD release of the first.
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‘Malibu Shark Attack’ is a poor man’s ‘Shark Night 3D’
Last summers tail end saw the piranhas but this one belongs to the sharks.
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‘Puzzle’ puts all the right pieces together
A woman finds meaning not from her children who ignore her or her husband who patronizes her but from the puzzles she has a gift as putting together.
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‘Something Borrowed’ should have borrowed better characters
Adapted from the Emily Giffen novel this mediocre romantic comedy is hardly something new.
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‘Thor’ hammers out a darn good movie
The movie that could easily have sank Marvel’s efforts to build their comic book characters into legitimate film franchises may very well turn out to be one of their best. Thor had the odds stacked against it from the beginning. Most comic books-turned-movies these days are with a real-world tone, such as with Iron Man…
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‘Every Little Step’ documentary has two left feet
I really wanted this documentary about the creation of the musical A Chorus Line to be a singular sensation. Unfortunately it just never quite earned a standing ovation.
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‘The Invention of Lying’ makes honesty quite appealing
Ricky Gervais writes, directs and stars in The Invention of Lying, a new film that also stars Jennifer Garner, Louis C.K., Jonah Hill and Rob Lowe. But just to be clear, Matthew Robinson co-wrote and co-directed this interesting look at a society where everyone is completely honest until suddenly one lone man somehow learns to…
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‘Surrogates’ travels through familiar territory
If you find yourself walking out of the theater auditorium after having seen Surrogates, the latest film from director Jonathan Mostow (U-571 and Breakdown), and feel like this is ‘stuff’ you have seen before, don’t worry. It is. Mostow also directed Terminator 3 – Rise of the Machines, and Surrogates is another moralistic message about…
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‘Frost/Nixon’ is simply spectacular
In the 219 years since George Washington became the first President of the United States, only one President has ever resigned. Richard Milhous Nixon, the nation’s 37th President, stepped down in the wake of the Watergate scandal on August 9, 1974. The history of what happened during the Watergate break-in and its aftermath has been…
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‘Cadillac Records’ is worth a spin
“Leonard Chess didn’t know nothing about no blues” – Muddy Waters Cue the cheesy Sherwood Schwartz music. It’s the story of a man named Lenny, who was busy with an idea of his own. He had this wild, crazy notion that he, a White, Polish immigrant living in Chicago could start a record label (actually,…
