Review: Forgetting Sarah Marshall

We’ve all had our heart trampled on before by one person or another, but not too many can claim it’s happened while standing butt-naked in their living room. Such is the case in the latest movie from Judd Apatow’s production gang, “Forgetting Sarah Marshall.” Even if you are feeling the wear of Apatow in his [...]

Review: 21

In 1993, a group of MIT students found a sophisticated and complex way to beat the casinos. They worked out strategies, code words and signals, before becoming a resounding success and earning tens of thousands of dollars along the way. Their story was made into a History Channel documentary called “Breaking Vegas,” a fictionalized best-selling [...]

Review: Drillbit Taylor

Remember back in high school when the freshmen were submitted to orientation? Several kids would succumb to the will of upperclassmen, forced to perform humiliating tasks or undergo unwarranted punishment. Now imagine if they had an ex-marine that looked a lot like Owen Wilson to protect them, and you get Drillbit Taylor, a comedy that [...]

Review: Doomsday

It’s been a dull couple of weeks for people not wanting to see an animated elephant or his prehistoric, CGI kin. The next few weeks will offer a variety of different choices, but for now, those looking for something new will have to live with the less-publicized releases like Doomsday.
In Doomsday, Eden Sinclair (Rhona Mitra [...]

Review: Semi-Pro

Will Ferrell sure does love his sports. Not only can you find the former Saturday Night Live star at USC football games, but also in a host of sports comedies. He has starred in movies about NASCAR, figuring skating, soccer and now basketball. Semi-Pro may look like a rehash of things we’ve seen before from [...]

Review: Vantage Point

Thanks to the writers strike, many die-hard action fans that usually get their fix from 24 are scrambling for something to quench their adrenaline appetite. While Vantage Point looks like a good Jack Bauer substitute, its premise and short-winded plot will have viewers wishing it could have been a bit more traditional.
Vantage Point tells the [...]

Review: Fool’s Gold

With so many options for places to take your Valentine, it’s hard to choose: a candlelit dinner, a night of romantic dancing or perhaps a movie? Forget dinner and dancing, Fool’s Gold is perfect for Valentine’s Day; it is hollow, disappointing and leaves you feeling like you should have gotten more for your money.
But any [...]

Review: Rambo

Last summer, Live Free or Die Hard brought back Bruce Willis one more time as John McClane and managed to make over $100 million in the face of giants like Transformers and Ratatouille. Sylvester Stallone must have made a note of this after finishing Rocky Balboa because he is now gracing us with the return [...]

Review: The Bucket List

Imagine if Thelma and Louise were recast with old men. Oh, and they have cancer. One of them is rich. That’s The Bucket List.
The Bucket List is a mediocre attempt to take two brilliant box office giants, hand them a weak script revolving around an extremely basic and overplayed warm, fuzzy feeling of realizing what’s [...]

Review: Eastern Promises

In his latest film Eastern Promises, Canadian director David Cronenberg addresses the seedy world of Russian mobsters living and operating in the underground of London.
Eastern Promises combines excellent acting by some of the principal cast members with gratuitous graphic violence, and, unfortunately, the latter ended up shaping my perception of the film. Certainly, graphic depictions [...]