Sloppy seconds? Ken Scott gets another shot at his high concept
Matthew Lickona 1:15 p.m., May 22
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Pedantic pigskin story, based on the well-regarded nonfiction book by H.G. Bissinger, set in football-mad West Texas: the pressures, the twisted passions, the bitter pills, the life lessons. Billy Bob Thornton, who appears to take more than just the overbite ...
The embodiment, the epitome, the acme of the "franchise picture," one of those brass rings that studio executives like to stack up on their lances. So perfect a one, in truth, that it would make more sense to cover the ...
Lazy, lowbrow, bumpkinish comedy about a moronic Mormon missionary in Los Angeles who knocks on the door of a porno producer in mid-shoot, and is put in front of the camera as a Triple-X superhero specializing in interrupting coitus. Director-star ...
Well, once in a while, maybe. Steven Spielberg's remake and update of Guy Named Joe, a WWII fantasy about the ghost of a recently deceased flyer who (unbeknown to anyone alive) tutors a neophyte flyer and even plays matchmaker between ...
And not just any ordinary old bats, but great big Texas-sized omnivorous bats. (Actually, laboratory-enhanced Indonesian imported bats.) Perfectly harmless s-f mutation stuff, apart from the stupefying conformance to convention. (And guess what's playing these days at the main-street bijou ...
Southern-fried chick flick. Seventeen-year-old Novalee Nation, westbound and pregnant, is superstitious about fives (her ma ran out on the fifth of the month; it took fifty-five stitches to close her steak-knife wound; etc.), so when the cashier at an Oklahoma ...
A violent drizzle of dung. Nicolas Cage is the diamond seller whose lavish home, wall safe, elegant wife (Nicole Kidman), and sex-bait daughter tempt stupid creeps to terrorize them. The villains are preening but instantly forgettable, exposing their crude backstories ...
Almost a French Brief Encounter, with (briefly) a train station. Quietly appealing Vincent Lindon is the construction worker with a fine wife (Aure Atika) and child, drawn to a lonely teacher. She (Sandrine Kiberlain) is what Westerns once called a ...
Hangover Part III
Perfect review, for an awful film.MrWolf | 8 hours, 39 minutes ago
Star Trek Into Darkness
Just attended the special advance preview screening in San Diego last night of "Star Trek: Into Darkness." As a committed lifelong Trekkie who's seen every original episode and film far more times than I care to admit (has it been that many?) I have to confess that walking into the ...Letter to the Editor | 5 days, 22 hours ago
Lore
They kill the dog? Just lost all my sympathy...jnojr | 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Olympus Has Fallen
Rip-off of Vince Flynn's "Transfer of Power"jnojr | 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Olympus Has Fallen
Nothing more than a mirthless, suspenseless and utterly pointless Die Hard ripoff. See this only if you too can put all of your critical faculties on hold. Man, do I miss Duncan Shepherd. (And for the record, Gerard Butler is not a disgraced former secret service man. He's an actor.)Dragonfly | 1 month, 4 weeks ago