Archive for October 3rd, 2007

New DVDs

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

New this week is the 50th anniversary edition of the musical “Funny Face” and a new volume of films from Kenneth Anger.

Total Recall: The Heartbreak Kid and the Movies of Neil Simon

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

After toning down the crude and turning up the cute (even giving Jimmy Fallon a chance in Fever Pitch!) for the last three years, the Farrelly brothers return to R-rated raunch territory with The Heartbreak Kid, opening this Friday. It’s a remake of the 1972 Neil Simon film of the…

Malin Akerman Says Watchmen Light On Green Screen

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

Watchmen has begun filming but Malin Akerman is still on the press rounds for The Heartbreak Kid. She provided a preview of her role as The Silk Spectre before she joins the rest of the cast on the set.

Wolfgang Petersen Still on Enders Game and Two More Sci-fi Projects

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

With Hollywood adapting children’s books no one’s ever heard of to cash in on the fantasy craze, one classic still struggles in Hollywood. Ender’s Game is Orson Scott Card’s sci-fi tale of children trained in battle school to fight off an alien race in the future. Director Wolfgang Petersen is…

85% Banished: How Whites Drove Blacks Out of Town in America

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

This story of three U.S. towns which, in the early 20th century, forced their entire African American populations to leave, explores what—if anything—can be done to repair past racial injustice.

50% The Kingdom

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

While providing several top-notch action scenes, The Kingdom ultimately collapses under the weight of formula and muddled politics.

44% Adrift in Manhattan

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

A lush meditation on isolation and intersection in the big city, Alfredo de Villa’s Adrift in Manhattan is the layered story of three characters who find courage to move to the next stage of life through profound encounters with strangers they meet on their daily routes.

26% Resident Evil: Extinction

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

Resident Evil: Extinction is more of the same; its few impressive action sequences unable to compensate for the pedestrian plot.

66% The Nines

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

Though The Nines doesn’t solidify as well as writer/director John August would hope for, Ryan Reynolds’s strong performance makes each of the film’s intriguing segments worth watching.

3% Good Luck Chuck

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

Good Luck Chuck squanders a decent premise with an excess of gross-out humor and dull, shopworn slapstick.