Al Pacino, Alicia Witt, LeeLee Sobieski, William Forsythe, Amy Brenneman, Neal McDonough Synposis: A thriller about a college professor who, while moonlighting as a forensic psychiatrist for the FBI, receives a death threat telling him that he has only 88 minutes to live. Pacino is both great and completely irritating in this film. The story [...]
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Steve Martin, Jean Reno, Andy Garcia, Alfred Molina, Emily Mortimer, Aishwarya Rai, Yuki Matsuzaki, John Cleese They spent a little too much time trying to make clever romantic innuendos when they should’ve stuck to the pratfalls that made the character famous. Still, it’s not completely awful and there are a few funny moments that weren’t [...]
Gabriel Macht, Samuel L. Jackson, Eva Mendez, Scarlett Johansson So this was way more campy than I’d expected… but if viewed as an homage to Will Eisner and his original comic from the 1930s (1940s?) when that style of humor was prevalent, then Frank Miller did a great job. Hey – where else are you [...]
Jason Statham, Natalya Rudakova, François Berléand, Robert Knepper This turned out much better than I’d anticipated. It’s a Transporter film, so basic plot holds (put girl in car, drive fast, get in fights)… I enjoyed seeing the progression of the relationship between Frank and the Inspector. Expect lots of chase scenes, some decent fights (man, [...]
Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo The plants decide to take over the wind and kill us because we’re poisoning them… but they can only do it in a relatively small area and during a 24 hour window? Feh. Whatever. Other than learning that Zooey has a really furry face and that Spencer Breslin, who [...]
Matthew McConaughey, Kate Hudson, Donald Sutherland I had low expectations for this movie, thinking the trailer had spoiled all the best parts and that watching the film itself would simply be an exercise of will – specifically willing myself to be patient enough to finish it. Luckily, I was wrong. This is actually an amusing [...]
