Archive for March, 2008
10 Hollywood Classics and what really made them good
Friday, March 28th, 20081. Raiders of the Lost Ark Good, bloody action combined with a sense of humor and fairly credible plot twists. This is a formula that Hollywood has forgotten makes for great entertainment. Sure, they keep throwing the poor man’s version at you (The Mummy, Live Free or Die Hard), and you keep paying for […]
Sleepwalking (review)
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008A well-meaning but hopelessly inept mother (Charlize Theron: Monster, who also produced the film) abandons her 11-year-old daughter (AnnaSophia Robb: Jumper) with her even more incapable brother (Nick Stahl: Sin City) while Mom goes off to do, well, we don’t know what. That kind of untidy loose end — which is meant, I suspect, to […]
Movie review: ‘10,000 BC’ a pre-hysterical riot
Monday, March 10th, 2008Not since Snakes on a Plane has a movie had a trailer that more perfectly captured its essence. The previews of 10,000 BC show lots of good-looking primitive people (with great teeth—they must have had great dental plans in 10,000 BC) fighting other primitive people and hunting/dodging mammoths.
And that’s the film. Loopy eye candy that […]