Yes, it is no secret that there are approximately 13000 films and television mini-movies based out of the Works of Stephen King, and only six of them are actually worth watching. Man shameless (and not at all precautionary), when it comes to renting from him for a brand new product, whether it be good or […]
Posted on January 27th, 2008 by admin
Filed under: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller | No Comments »
Children of Men, Alfonso Cuar n adaptation of the PD James novel, takes a look at the apocalyptic England in the near future when the rules of law and order collapsed and the country is ruled by a fascist dictator. The film is set in 2027 - only 21 years old and in the future […]
Posted on January 27th, 2008 by admin
Filed under: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | No Comments »
Cheaper Dozen, an updated version of 1950 family film suffers only that heavy. This does not mean that the leading man Steve Martin is not good - it is original and sometimes funny, as it had been in recent years - but, given how effective it once in the film, as planes, trains and automobiles […]
Posted on January 27th, 2008 by admin
Filed under: Comedy, Family | No Comments »
Here is a sentence I never thought I would write: Carmen Electra is more interesting than Steve Martin. There, I wrote, but not without pain and not without immediate coercion. This was the film that made me write this. By the Dozen 2 cheaper made me sink this low.
To be fair to myself, but actually […]
Posted on January 27th, 2008 by admin
Filed under: Adventure, Comedy, Family | No Comments »
Take two bickering brothers of different nationalities inherited property in the French village, and set surly servants. Digital Cinema film with a handheld camera, in a style inspired to feast on. Offer a few good jokes on the cross-cultural hilarity in the first third, and then in writing gradually veer down. Insert tired romantic subplot, […]
Posted on January 27th, 2008 by admin
Filed under: Comedy | No Comments »
When Charlie ’s Angels first hit TV airwaves in the 1976-77 season, he was a national phenomenon. Every Wednesday evening, millions of home sets will be tuned to ABC for further adventures of the three “legs” of a private investigator millionaire Charles Townsend. Despite the fact that cross-cutting popular television programme, he drew his greatest […]
Posted on January 27th, 2008 by admin
Filed under: Action, Adventure, Comedy | No Comments »
Yes, it is more of the same - and this is indeed a problem. First Charlie ’s Angels movie was so delicious, self-consciously cheesy that it is virtually impossible to dislike. There was a freshness and sassiness for the production - a sense that the filmmakers were thumbing their noses at serious action movies, juicing […]
Posted on January 27th, 2008 by admin
Filed under: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime | No Comments »
If there are any living director who can do justice in the warped nature of Roald Dahl “children’s stories” that Tim Burton. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is not the first time the two have “collaborated”. Burton production of Henry Selick animated James and the Giant Peach, but this time he is armchair director, with […]
Posted on January 27th, 2008 by admin
Filed under: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy | No Comments »
Noted, music director Stanley Donen (on the City (1949) “/” Singin ‘in the Rain (1952) “/” She always Fair Weather (1955) “/” The Pajama Game (1957) “) helms this time smart Hitchcockian a brilliant thriller based on a script by Peter Stone, Mr. Stone also co-authored a short story with Marc Behm. In the twisty […]