Remember playing paper, scissors, rock in first grade and throwing out rock, only to have some ankle biter scream typhoon and giggle like a sorority chick after two Cosmos and an eighth of mushrooms? Well, that ADHD-ridden tool box grew up and made a movie, and surprise surprise its an annoying befuddlement of confusion, which doesnt even bother conforming to its own rules.
There's a shining moment in this uneven spin on Grumpy Old
Men when Bernie Mac and Samuel L. Jackson, playing feuding
backup singers on an R&B comeback tour, stop in the desert to
change a flat tire. Instead, they break into an impromptu version
of the soul classic "I'm Your Puppet," riffing off each other with
waves of affection that flow right off the screen. Mac died shortly
after wrapping the movie, as did Isaac Hayes, who does a cameo as
himself. Soul Men is a chance to salute these
Sometimes a shamelessly stoopid, proudly profane R-rated comedy
is all you want out of life. Role Models more than fills
the bill. It's killer funny. Cheers to Paul Rudd — he should
be a star by now — who takes just the right wry comic tone as
Danny, an L.A. misanthrope flushing his life down the shitter.
Danny and his sex-crazed partner, Wheeler (Seann William Scott, the
immortal Stifler), earn cash by selling Minotaur energy drinks.
Wheeler wears the hairy costume. Danny drives the monster truck,
until self-loathing
You may not buy into actors playing Nazis with high-toned Brit
accents, but the power of this Holocaust tale sneaks up and floors
you. Writer-director Mark Herman has adapted John Boyne's novel
with admirable restraint.
Eight-year-old Bruno (Asa Butterfield) isn't pleased when he and
older sister Gretel (Amber Beattie) are forced to leave their
friends in Berlin and settle in a remote area where Bruno's
commandant father (David Thewlis) has been stationed. The kids and
their mother (Vera Farmiga) believe the fence they see outside
their window encloses a farm,
The idea of the director of Saw II, III and IV
going at Paris Hilton seems like just revenge for her punishable
assaults on acting. In this atonal, faux-arty rock opera about a
futuristic bull market in internal organs, Hilton is suitably
clueless as Amber Sweet, the daughter of an aria-singing mob boss
(Paul Sorvino). Amber trades in her organs like fashion
accessories. But a new pancreas costs money. Don't pay, and the
Repo Man will tear out your guts. It gets worse, much worse.
Talented actors are involved, and I will spare them
