Mission: Impossible III kicks off the summer ‘06 movie season with gusto. It’s a sleek, effective action film, the kind of film the James Bond production team should be making these days but doesn’t.
Tom Cruise started the Mission: [ . . . ] Read the rest
Usually when a film is based on a book, the book is better. Occasionally though the movie clearly surpasses its source material; The Wizard of Oz and The Godfather are prime examples. But I can’t think of a single [ . . . ] Read the rest
In 1980, the U.S. Olympic hockey team beat the Soviets and won the gold medal. I vaguely remember the big fuss about this at the time, but in 1980 The Empire Strikes Back, Superman II, and The Blue Lagoon [ . . . ] Read the rest
Jarhead is a superbly well-made mediocre film. It’s a frustrating example of the whole being less than the sum of the parts.
The parts are all very fine indeed. The film looks spectacular. The skillful, disciplined cinematography, by Coen [ . . . ] Read the rest
If you didn’t know better, you’d swear that Match Point was the work of some promising newcomer, not the pathetic has-been that Woody Allen has become. Allen’s maddening, OCD insistence on making a new film every single year results [ . . . ] Read the rest
The musical, like the western, is a once-popular genre now largely abandoned. But every now and then someone makes a really good musical, like Chicago, (or a really good western, like Unforgiven) and people start talking about a “revival” [ . . . ] Read the rest
Who’s responsible? Bryan Singer (director), Brandon Routh (Superman), Kevin Spacey (Lex Luthor), Kate Bosworth (Lois Lane)
When can we see it? June 30, 2006
What’s it about? Returning after a mysterious absence of several years, Superman finds that [ . . . ] Read the rest
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