Big, little king Max gets a great new look as he learns his place among the lands and creatures of his imagination in "Where the Wild Things Are" . A tale for boys with inventive minds. But, also a heavy-hitting, mindful story for "kids" with families complicated by......Read More
"Back to life; back to reality" is the two-sided message behind "Surrogates" , the latest Bruce Willis film about a near future when people do not go out into the world but send androids to live in their places when they become self-conscious about personal safety and......Read More
[This review is rated "A" for AWESOME!, ADVENTURE! and...maybe karma? No; that doesn't start with "A". Wait. AUTUMN! But, more on that later.]
Bill Hader and Anna Faris are Flint and Sam , an unlikely dynamic duo of goofy geeks with confused......Read More
There's nothing like coming away from a mixed-up yet very comical love story and hearing the song to one part that made you laugh. That is the half-smile reaction I had to Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel in "(500) Days of Summer" . It's more tragedy and comedy than it......Read More
I will say it at least 524 times; I love Amy Adams in (almost) every role I see her, including budding writer and cook Julie Powell in "Julie and Julia" . A rich(like heavy butter) and lengthy(like a 700 plus page book) tale about a young bride and phone center cubicle worker......Read More
I never would have thought Sienna Miller and Marlon Wayans could pull off a half-decent take on one more of my childhood obsessions based upon a toy war between American super-soldiers of all nationalities and a mysterious enemy force out to cause chaos in order to achieve world......Read More
Jack Black , Michael Cera and a small horde of lesser famous faces make a mockery of ancient history(including tales of the Bible) in the half-baked film "Year One" , a pale "lookalike" of at least one Mel Brooks film. It isn't epic in any way, shape or......Read More
FINALLY, a movie in which I can respect Ryan Reynolds (and Malin Akerman )! AND, it has been a long time since I saw Sandra Bullock in a movie I liked. I saw the trailer. It looked mildly amusing(and potentially romantic regarding the way the two come together). And, "The......Read More
It's all about parents letting go of their kids so they can run off and grow whichever way they choose in college with a generous helping of "support the military" and "peaceful" alien interaction in "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" . A sequel which has......Read More
Not since "Stranger Than Fiction" and "Talladega Nights" has Will Ferrell surprised me with his potential. Despite ridiculous antics which seem unrealistic by all means, he has impressed me with "Land of the Lost" , a play on the old Sid and Marty Krofft......Read More