Kino

Starring:
Brendan Fraser, Jet Li
Review:
The new Mummy is, how can I put it? Just freakin’ awful.
The computerized action travels beyond cheese to the realm of the
tackiest Velveeta. The first two Mummy movies were awful
as well, but they were hits and rode on the unfakable charm of
Brendan Fraser as Indiana Jones-in-training Rick O’Connell. The
2008 Mummy, […]

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Starring:
David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson
Review:
Being suitably paranoid about the paranormal, I wanted to
believe that X-Files creator Chris Carter, having had six
years since the TV show went off the air to craft a humdinger of a
plot, could conjure up something with more ding and less (ho) hum
than The X-Files: I Want To Believe. What I […]

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Starring:
Hannah Bailey, Colin Clemens, Megan Krizmanich, Jake Tusing
Review:
Reality tv, welcome to the multiplex. If The Hills went
back to high school and developed wit, perception and a conscience,
it might play something like Nanette Burstein’s wallop of a doc.
Burstein (The Kid Stays in the Picture) did total
immersion with a handful of seniors at the only […]

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Starring:
Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Mary Steenburgen, Richard Jenkins,
…
Review:
Starting at infantile and regressing hysterically from there,
Step Brothers flies on the comic chemistry of Will Ferrell
and John C. Reilly. They riffed on the baby Jesus in Talladega
Nights. Now they’re goofing on grown men who stay babies. Are
you ready to see Ferrell rub his hairy […]

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Starring:
James Franco, Seth Rogen
Review:
Add about seven years to the ages of the kids in
Superbad, toss in bullets, bongs and assassination squads,
and you get some idea of the hot box of crazy that is Pineapple
Express, a buddy movie stoned on its own shitfaced silliness.
You’ll go limp from laughing as process server Dale Denton (Seth
Rogen) […]

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Starring:
Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgard,
Jul…
Review:
Meryl Streep can do anything: sing, dance, do splits, act her heart
out. She (almost) saves this clumsy, overwrought film version of
the Abba musical that’s been running on stages from Broadway to
Barcelona since 1999, grossing over $2 billion and luring more than
30 million ticketbuyers to hear Abba […]

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Starring:
Eddie Murphy, Elizabeth Banks, Gabrielle Union, Judah
Friedlander…
Review:
Eddie Murphy — was that Oscar nominated performance in
Dreamgirls just something I imagined? — continues to
trash his very real talent with bottomfeeding material. In Meet
Dave, Murphy limits himself to two roles (none human). He
plays a pint-sized alien from outer space and the spacecraft he
rode in on. If […]

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Starring:
Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson, Anita Briem
Review:
Remove a star from the rating if you take this Journey
without wearing 3-D glasses. That’s where the real fun comes in.
Otherwise you have a family-friendly retelling of Jules Verne’s
1864 novel (best remembered is the 1959 movie with an overqualified
James Mason, a shirtless Pat Boone and a gorgeous Arlene […]

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Starring:
Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, Jeffrey Tambor, Ladislav
Be…
Review:
Granted, Guillermo del Toro’s sequel to his 2004
Hellboy is not a work of art like his Oscar-winning
Pan’s Labyrinth. But his latest spin on Mike Mignola’s
vividly drawn Dark Horse comic series sure is a surprise
package of fun, fright and untamed imagination. If you’re looking
for a creature […]

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Starring:
Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, Jeffrey Tambor, Ladislav
Be…
Review:
Granted, Guillermo del Toro’s sequel to his 2004
Hellboy is not a work of art like his Oscar-winning
Pan’s Labyrinth. But his latest spin on Mike Mignola’s
vividly drawn Dark Horse comic series sure is a surprise
package of fun, fright and untamed imagination. If you’re looking
for a creature […]

[Read more →]