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From Paris With Love

Posted by Admin in February 7th 2010  


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Review:
The title dares to evoke From Russia With Love, one of
the best Bond movies ever. From Paris With Love isn’t
among the best of anything, but it definitely corners the market on
the worst. Staring John Travolta with shaved head and badass
attitude left over from The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, this
clanking bore of a movie teams Travolta’s gun-crazy CIA agent with
Jonathan Rhys Meyers’ tight-assed desk jockey who wants in on the
special ops action.
Peter Travers reviews From Paris with Love in his weekly
video podcast, “At the Movies With Peter Travers.”
Director Pierre Morel tries to duplicate the B-movie tension he
instilled in last year’s Taken with Liam Neeson going
medieval on the nether regions of bad guys hellbent on selling his
daughter into white slavery….

Rating: 1 Stars

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Dear John

Posted by Admin in February 7th 2010  


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Review:
This shameless tearjerker is Hollywood’s alternative assault on
Super Bowl weekend. Translation: While guys grunt and stuff their
faces in front of large-screen TVs, women will line up to luxuriate
in a bubblebath made from essence of Nicholas Sparks. You know who
Sparks is, the guy who writes bestselling weepies that become
appalling movies, such as The Notebook, Message in a
Bottle and Nights in Rodanthe. The newest Sparks is
Dear John, about soldier John (Channing Tatum), on leave
from Special Forces to visit his hermit, coin-collecting dad
(Richard Jenkins) in South Carolina.
Peter Travers reviews Dear John in his weekly video
podcast, “At the Movies With Peter Travers.”
Of course John meets a girl, she’s Savannah and played by the
lovely Amanda Seyfried. To…

Rating: 1 Stars

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Saint John of Las Vegas

Posted by Admin in January 29th 2010  

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Starring:
Steve Buscemi, Sarah Silverman, Emmanuelle Chriqui
Review:
Just looking at hangdog Steve Buscemi and perky Sarah Silverman
as mismatched lovers is a kick. What a comedy team these two
virtuosos of the comically perverse could have made if they weren?t
stuck in the shambles that is Saint John of Las Vegas.
First-time director and screenwriter Hue Rhodes shows no
discernible talent for dialogue, humor and, especially, pacing. For
a movie than runs a mere 85 minutes, Saint John moves like
a life sentence in molasses prison.
Peter Travers reviews Saint John of Las Vegas in his
weekly video podcast, “At the Movies With Peter Travers.”
Buscemi plays John Alighieri (same last name as Dante?s), a
gambling junkie trying to take the cure by taking a nowhere job in
an insurance company in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Just as he?s
settling into an…

Rating: 1 Stars
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Edge of Darkness

Posted by Admin in January 29th 2010  


Starring:
Mel Gibson, Bojana Novakovic
Review:
Mel gibson?s return to acting (it?s been eight years since
Signs) is a welcome sight. His performance as Tom Craven,
a Boston homicide detective whose 24-year-old daughter (Bojana
Novakovic) is shotgun- executed before his eyes, shows his
movie-star shine hasn?t dimmed.
(Peter Travers reviews Edge of Darkness in his weekly
video podcast, “At the Movies With Peter Travers.”) The years
of boozing and accusations of anti- Semitism have left Gibson, 54,
looking thicker and worry- creased. But his acting has deepened.
Too bad his comeback vehicle springs so many leaks. Edge of
Darkness, the Americanization for short attention spans of the
awardwinning British miniseries from 1985, is a mixed bag even with
the same director, Casino Royale?s Martin Campbell.
The…

Rating: 2 Stars
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44 Inch Chest

Posted by Admin in January 22nd 2010  

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Starring:
Ray Winstone, Ian McShane
Review:
It sounded good: a bunch of foulmouthed geezers taking bloody
revenge on the French lover boy (Melvil Poupaud) who stole the wife
(Joanne Whalley) of their car-salesman mate (Ray Winstone). With
the acting power of Ian McShane, Stephen Dillane, Tom Wilkinson and
John Hurt joining Winstone in a swearing challenge that could make
David Mamet blush, 44 Inch Chest had the makings of the
next Sexy Beast, since it shares the same screenwriters,
Louis Mellis and David Scinto. But unlike Beast director
Jonathan Glazer, Malcolm Venville coaches his ace acting team to
ring infinite variations on the word “cunt” without realizing that
there’s a difference between exposing misogyny and crassly
exploiting it.
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Rating: 1 Stars
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Creation

Posted by Admin in January 22nd 2010  

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Review:
This one means well, a kiss-of-death review if there ever was
one. Paul Bettany takes an earnest shot at playing Charles Darwin,
a 19th-century man obsessed with monkeys, the origin of the
species, the death of his favorite daughter and the disapproval of
his religious wife (Jennifer Connelly). In other words, director
Jon Amiel has reduced a crucial moment in science to a Lifetime
weepie about a workaholic who needs personal tragedy to wake him up
to his wife’s virtues. The fact that Bettany and Connelly are
married in real life adds surprisingly little zest. What
provocation there is comes in the still-­timely debate between
science and faith that sneaks in from the sidelines when the
tear-jerking momentarily abates.
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Rating: 2 Stars

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Fish Tank

Posted by Admin in January 16th 2010  
Starring:
Katie Jarvis
Review:
You don’t expect to find movie gold in the January cesspool.
That’s what makes Fish Tank an exhilarating gift. Katie
Jarvis, 18, hits you like a shot in the heart with her sensational
breakout performance. And cheers to director Andrea Arnold, who
flies on her own unerring instincts. On the surface, the film is
pat melodrama, as 15-year-old Mia (Jarvis) acts out hostilities
about being raised in the London projects by a single mom (Kierston
Wareing) too driven by her own libido to worry about Mia and her
sister (Rebecca Griffiths).
Peter Travers reviews Fish Tank in his weekly video
podcast, “At the Movies With Peter Travers.”
That’s when pat turns to pow. Get up in Mia’s face, and she’ll
clock you. Hip-hop dancing is Mia’s only goal until her mom’s new
stud, Connor (Michael…

Rating: 3 Stars
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Crazy on the Outside

Posted by Admin in January 16th 2010  
Starring:
Tim Allen
Review:
It might seem unjust to tar Tim Allen’s mirthless farce about an
ex-con (Allen) looking for a second chance as the worst movie of
the worst-movie month. With Leap Year, The Spy Next Door, Tooth
Fairy and When in Rome in the mix, the competition is
stiff. But Allen screws up his directing debut with a script that
smothers his wit in a blanket of bland.
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Rating: 0 Stars
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Book of Eli

Posted by Admin in January 16th 2010  


Starring:
Denzel Washington
Review:
If Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman and the return of the Hughes
brothers (it’s been damn near a decade since From Hell)
isn’t enough to jazz you about The Book of Eli, you’re
probably not much of a film freak. OK, the movie is an apocalyptic
tale with a religioso bent that does it no favors. We’ve been down
this road to doom before, most recently in The Road. And
Gary Whitta’s script chokes on the dust of what came before.
Peter Travers reviews The Book of Eli in his weekly video
podcast, “At the Movies With Peter Travers.”
Luckily, Allen Hughes and his directing twin, Albert, have
skills. They can energize the familiar. Washington’s Eli is a
menace to a society that forgot about God when the “flash” (read:
nuclear winter) reduced the world to rubble 30 years ago. Eli keeps
heading…

Rating: 2 Stars
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Daybreakers

Posted by Admin in January 9th 2010  


Starring:
Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe
Review:
After all the toothless, limp-dick vampire posturing in the
Twilight chick flicks, it’s a kick to see a balls-out,
R-rated movie about bloodsuckers that doesn’t spare the gore so
little girls won’t cry into their Twitpics of Rob Pattinson. Such a
movie is Daybreakers, a nifty genre piece from Aussie
twins Michael and Peter Spierig (Undead) who put some
oomph into an overworked theme. Don’t get me wrong.
Daybreakers, despite the star presence of Ethan Hawke and
Willem Dafoe, is a B movie, with all the disreputable low rent,
lowbrow pleasures that implies. I’ll take that over pompous any
day.
Peter Travers reviews Daybreakers in his weekly video
podcast, “At the Movies With Peter Travers.”
As the Spierigs see the future — it’s 2019 —
vampires have taken over…

Rating: 2 Stars
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