Why Marvel Studios isn’t releasing “Captain America” on July 4th I’ll never know, though I dig the whole nostalgia vibe that the posters seem to be putting out. They appear to reflect sensibilities and a time that–probably–never really existed but that older people swear was real.
The tag line of “Bad Teacher” is: “She doesn’t give an “F.”” After seeing the movie, you won’t either. Movies entertain because they manage to take you from the here and now. Horror, science fiction, fantasy or drama, entertaining ones tend to move you somehow. “Bad Teacher” moves you too, and it is entertaining, […]
You have to be careful with movies like “Bad Teacher” because the line between funny and bad taste is a very difficult one to straddle without turning off the causal viewer. If it doesn’t have at least a little bit of ‘heart,’ if it can’t manage to make you care at least a little bit […]
Today Apple released Final Cut Pro X, their flagship video editing application. It’s available via the Apple App Store for $299. The prior version, Final Cut Studio, is in high demand by movie studios for film editing, though it remains to be seen if Final Cut Pro X is adopted as enthusiastically. At first, seeing […]
According to Comingsoon.net, there’s an original film–as in not a sequel to anything–coming from Pixar in 2013. This is a mystery because it’s commonly known that they are releasing “Cars 2,” “Brave” and “Monsters University” the sequel to 2001’s hit “Monsters.” So what is this new film? It can’t be “John Carter.” which, despite the […]
I wrote in a prior post that I didn’t expect “Green Lantern” to pull in any more than $40 million dollars in its Friday-Monday debut. I underestimated its box office by almost $13 million dollars. It’s better than my estimate, though still weak in comparison to other superhero films like “Thor” or “X-Men: First Class.” Another […]
If someone decides to make a list of the most influential film reviewers, there’s no way that Roger Ebert, of the Chicago Sun-Times, wouldn’t be near the top. When I was growing up, he and Gene Siskel were the only reviewers that I knew of who’s reviews actually could be called entertaining in and of […]
When you think of Woolite, the detergent for fine washables, you normally don’t think of Rob Zombie, director of the remakes of Halloween 1 & 2, “The Devil’s Rejects,” and “The House of 1000 Corpses,” as well as the lead singer of White Zombie. But some twisted marketing genius has somehow decided to bring to […]
This review of “Green Lantern” contains a videoclip that could be considered as a spoiler. If you want to go into the film with as little knowledge as possible, please do not watch. Anyone that says or implies that “Green Lantern” is worst film of the summer–so far–isn’t being entirely honest. To be the best […]
Some reviewers, such as Rolling Stone’s Peter Travers, seem to think that “Green Lantern” is the “Heaven’s Gate” of superhero films. Rottentomatoes.com seems to agree, which is probably why it currently has a 25% approval rating. That being said when I checked Rottentomatoes yesterday it had a %20, so perhaps there’s room for improvement in […]
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