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Yet another Marvel Comic turned unmarvelous movie, about an Evel Knievel motorcycle daredevil (Nicolas Cage, with a black divot of a hairpiece) who has sold his soul to Mephistopheles (a bouffant Peter Fonda), though he flees his responsibilities as "the Devil's bounty hunter" and continues to pursue his chosen vocation. …
What’s harder to find than a pack of wild unicorns? The script Nicolas Cage turned down. Cage returns as the flame-retardant figment that’s as indestructible as Daffy Duck’s beak. One good joke concerning the shelf life of a Twinkie does not a movie make, and even the least discerning Comic-Con …
Swedish rock band Ghost performs hit songs in concert with a narrative story that picks up plot threads from their long-running Chapters series.
Supernaturalism at sea, from the director of Thirteen Ghosts, Steve Beck. The opening scene depicts a snapped guy wire slicing across a crowded dance floor on an Italian ocean liner, slicing through bodies like a Weed Wacker through blades of grass, graphically illustrated with "realistic" computer effects of a torso …
Dickens’s Christmas Carol rewritten as a sex comedy, holding gallons less water. The girl-juggling glamour photographer, a seriously slimy Matthew McConaughey, learns overnight that he is, and always was, a one-woman man. Jennifer Garner is the high-achieving hardbodied hottie who has been cooling her heels for the heel. With Michael …
Space opera by John Carpenter -- a tatty patchwork of his previous films, most prominently Assault on Precinct 13, The Fog, The Thing (a line of the script even quotes the title of the original short story, "Who Goes There?"), Prince of Darkness, and Vampires. It has a choppy plotline …
Pious run-through of the third -- and finally successful -- prosecution of the white-supremacist assassin of civil-rights leader Medgar Evers, thirty years after the crime. Director Rob Reiner likes to have his points spoken out loud, and though the speech is quieter here than usual (A Few Good Men, The …
Get ready to grab the armrests with this sufficiently spooky (and funny) horror comedy triptych from England. When told that all the supernatural phenomena that he’s spent years trying to debunk on the successful reality series Psychic Cheats are in fact real, devout skeptic Phillip Goodman (co-director and co-writer Andy …
An adventure in mundanity that makes excellent use of the tension between those two words. Ain’t Them Bodies Saints writer-director David Lowery reteams with that film’s stars Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara for the story of two lovers whom death doesn’t quite part. How Affleck passes isn’t terribly important; what …
What if the people spoofing Paranormal Activity were not African-American, but rather, Hispanic? And what if that spoof was even sexier? Well, then.
Director David Koepp once made a pretty good straight ghost story, Stir of Echoes, and with this he has made a pretty good comic ghost story. A misanthropic dentist (bringing to mind the always-looking-down-in-the-mouth punch line) has a near-death experience under general anesthetic for a colonoscopy, which for some reason …
The heroine, out of a comic book by Daniel Clowes, is someone a critic could love. Not only a critic, rest assured. Fresh out of high school — or rather, jaded out of high school — she can produce an equal sneer for the wheelchair-bound valedictorian ("High school is like …
A literary hack (Ewan McGregor) — “You name it, he ghosts it” — lands the plum assignment of, for a cool quarter of a million, polishing up the memoirs of a Tony Blair-ish former British Prime Minister (Pierce Brosnan), stepping into the shoes of the previous silent collaborator who has …