Thanks to Roadshow Films, we had the chance to see director Jay Roach’s new comedy The Campaign at the Australian premiere of the film. This is our review of the film – but as usual – no matter what we say; we recommend that you still go to your local cinema and see the film read the article »
You might get a familiar sinking feeling during the opening moments of The Odd Life of Timothy Green. A youngish couple (Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Garner) are sitting in an adoption agency being grilled by an adoption officer (Shohreh Aghdashloo). She notes that they left the “Qualifications” field on their application blank — save for read the article »
The bewitching new stop-motion animation comedy ParaNorman is full of zombies, witchcraft and flesh-eating fun, but its greatest triumph is the dead-serious message it sends about the effects of bullying and facing the inner bully inside us all. Download ParaNorman ParaNorman Download Norman Babcock (Kodi Smit-McPhee) is different. He sees dead people, but no one read the article »
When “The Bourne Identity” first came out in theaters in 2002, it introduced a new type of action hero. Gone was the suave, debonair class of James Bond. Jason Bourne was a gritty, morally ambiguous and ruthless killer who ushered in a new age of modern action films, fitting for the disillusionment of the post-9/11 read the article »
The Expendables 2 is a loud, violent, brutal, bloody piece of bombast, and I loved every minute of it. Having been a child of the 80s, I grew up on the action films of the various stars of this movie, namely Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger (my personal favorite) and Jean Claude Van Damme. So imagine read the article »
A cautionary tale against plagiarism with pretensions to The Hours and The English Patient, Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal’s The Words folds narratives on top of narratives in a vain attempt to mask the fact that there’s nothing to read between its graceless lines. Framed by author Clay (Dennis Quaid) reading from his titular novel, read the article »
Something about Lawless ain’t quite right. This prohibition-era drama is caught somewhere between the Western and the gangster flick, but stylistically feels like a cold and clinical sci-fi film. Shot in digital, with a too-clean image that resembles those 120 Hz modes on new TVs, the cinematography lacks the grit to match the violent tale. read the article »
A horror movie release at the end of August…yeah, that’s usually about the only element that is scary for moviegoers. Fortunately, The Possession ends up being a decent little exorcism tale, when factoring in the recent hoo-hash that has infected audiences the last few years. And some of this decency has to do with horror read the article »
This is my idea of heaven. This week in politics can only get better tonight. The Democratic convention is full of intelligent, smart speakers who are performing at their height. I spend my days waiting for the nights. Those speeches are just too delicious. How can my politics NOT slip over into this Splog! Download read the article »
“My mission is to bring humor into contemporary art,” Wayne White declares near the end of Beauty is Embarrassing, Neil Berkeley’s absorbing documentary about the artist who, with every new project, comes closer to accomplishing his mission. A charismatic figure whose paintings of giant letters on tacky thrift-store art spelling out funny messages—“Donald Judd Was read the article »