The past few months have oddly been filled with mid-life crisis films. At the center of them are narcissistic, yet somewhat likeable, leads. Both the fantasti...
"They specialize in the ridiculousness" is a line Jessica Biel spouts early on in The A-Team and that line in itself represents the film as a whole. It's nothing but ridiculous. This is the exact idea everyone has for a summer blockbuster: non-stop action, one-liners, not too grounded in reality, and is just flat-out absurd. ...
The best way to describe Micmacs is as a quick trip through Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. Everything is colorful, magical and alive. That said, after a few...
The constant influx of reboots, remakes, updates, sequels, spin-offs, prequels and adaptations can begin to wear down the regular filmgoers of the world. How can we distinguish a by-the-numbers rehash with a fresh cinematic experience?...
From Paris With Love is the third film from director Pierre Morel. While he may not be a household name yet, Morel’s previous efforts have been very successful....
Alejandro Amenábar’s historical epic Agora is high-minded and visually pleasing, but doesn’t quite pull itself to maintain an entertaining momentum. It has many of the hallmarks of an epic, from the swelling music, to the sweeping city views, to the main characters ability to meander through surrounding violence unscathed, but the pace is often stalled by wordy monologues and the need to impart information, causing a loss of emotional impact. What we are left with is a story about religious intolerance and the resulting powerlessness of reason....
Killers is the new action comedy from director Robert Luketic starring Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl. The film tells the story of Jen (Heigl) who is on vacation with her family when she meets Spencer (Kutcher). The two meet through an awkward encounter in the elevator. A few short scenes and some unconvincing chemistry later, the two are married and living a quiet suburban life....
The director of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Nicholas Stoller, returns to the cinema with this hilarious (somewhat) sequel. While Marshall came across as a bit tedious and forced, Get Him to the Greek delivers on all fronts....
Splice, directed by Vincenzo Natali, is deliciously twisted. It reaches strange, insane and unpredictable places that can only elicit an unexpected, sadistic joy worth basking in....
John reviews Sony Pictures Classic's emotional drama Mother And Child directed by Rodrigo García. The film stars Annette Bening, Naomi Watts and Kerry Washington. ...
