The biggest problem with “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist” is that it stays well within the bounds of a normal teen rom-com. It doesn’t go above and beyond, nor does it fail in creating a cutesy teen movie. It just was alright. The movie had the potential to be really great, even original, but settled with just being good.
Three characters left me pensive, lightheaded and in good humor; Vicky, Cristina and the city of Barcelona
Woody Allen’s latest offering is witty, quick and heartfelt cutting to the raw passion and beauty of Spain, a city filled with Gaudi’s most memorable architecture, sculpture, and forlorn ingenues in love.
Allen’s writing and directing is back with a vengeance, where [...]
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Ben Stiller might not act in the greatest movies, but he sure knows how to write and direct them. With ‘Tropic Thunder’, Stiller creates an explosive new comedy that’s sure to blow anyone’s socks off.
Judd Aptow seems to be slipping, and ‘Pineapple Express’ seemed to be little more than a dream project where the studio just let him stick as many joints (definitely more than 20) into a movie as possible. Let’s just hope that with ‘Year One’, coming 2009, he gets back to his ‘Superbad’-A-game.
Stargate: Continuum came out last week hot on the trail of Stargate: The Ark of Truth. This movie finally ties all story threads in the SG:1 Universe — a fitting end to a series that started with an alien invasion.
The direct to DVD and Blu-ray feature is directed by series veteran, Martin Wood. Written [...]
Mamma Mia: Such a good cast. Such a bad weekend to open on.
Throw away your copy of 2003’s “The Hulk.” Something incredible has arrived.
The opening sequence of the 2008 installment of The Hulk movie saga, “The Incredible Hulk” makes it clear that producers are going to pretend that the earlier installment never was created as the first few minutes sum up the events of the initial movie.
Bruce Banner [...]
The art is beautiful, the landscapes breathtaking, the characters unquestionably loveable, the breadth of the plot awe-inspiring and the message eerie. The trailers were only a hint at the story that lay behind the binocular eyes of one lonely robot with a developed personality, but the final piece lived up to the expectations.
There should have been more Palestine/Israel humor and less rampant sex. That would have been a great movie. We have enough movies about sex without it getting this weird.
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