Archive for November, 2006

Starring: Jamie Foxx, Beyonce Knowles, Eddie Murphy, Jennifer Hudson, Keith... Review: Listen, I could tick off places where Dreamgirls trips up in transporting Michael Bennett's 1981 Broadway musical phenom to film. But it's hard to complain when you're at the party of the year. This baby dazzles like nothing else anywhere. Starting with its dream cast, led by Jamie Foxx and... Rating: 3 Stars

Starring: Rudy Youngblood, Raoul Trujillo, Mayra Serbulo, Dalia Hernandez,... Review: Here's a thought: instead of rehashing Mel Gibson's Jew-bashing rants when L.A. cops got him on a DUI in July, let's stick to his movie. Apocalypto brings out what's... Rating: 3 Stars

Starring: George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, Tobey Maguire, Robin Weigert, Dav... Review: OK, it's more of an experiment than a movie. But why deny the magic? Director Steven Soderbergh hasn't merely made an espionage thriller set in post-World War II... Rating: 3 Stars

Starring: Laura Dern, Jeremy Irons, Harry Dean Stanton, Justin Theroux, Sco... Review: Abandon all hope of logic, ye who enter here. David Lynch's INLAND EMPIRE (he insists the letters be capitalized), shot with a consumer digicam (the Sony PD-150), is three hours of mesmerizing (often... Rating: 3 Stars

Starring: Peter O'Toole, Leslie Phillips, Jodie Whittaker, Vanessa Redgrave... Review: Peter O'Toole, 74, plays a still-employable British actor in thrall to a friend's grand-niece, nineteen-year-old Jessie (Jodie Whittaker). Don't go, "Eww." From his 1962... Rating: 3 Stars

Simon Louvish portrays a Mae West who was author of her own success, and her own failure.

ITuristasI is the first film from 20th Century Foxs new youth-oriented division Fox Atomic. If ITuristasI is symptomatic of what theyll be offering, youth-oriented apparently means violent, gory, rated-R torture movies. Well, thats not really fair. The film takes quite awhile to get to the violence and gore; before that its mostly excessive drinking and gratuitously exposed boobs. Hi kids!

A moody thriller about an unhappily married couple, a remote cabin and a pair of homicidal crazies.

Even in a story about singing-and-dancing fat and feather, the director George Miller can’t help but go dark and deep.

The popular Comedy Central COPS parody series Reno 911! becomes a movie; who saw that coming? After all, the idea of an inept police force has already been done recently on film by Broken Lizards ISuper TroopersI. Heres the thing though: Reno 911! does it better. Broken Lizard had five minutes of funny in their film, the men and women of Renos police force have delivered four seasons. For the film, the entire Comedy Central cast steps right in, supplemented only by the genius of IThe 40 Year-Old VirginI and IAnchormansI Paul Rudd. Along with the cast comes the shows creator Ben Garant.