Sunday, July 28, 2013
Friday, May 31, 2013
Time wasters!
Friends with Kids (2011) – BOMB. Horrible “romantic comedy” about two platonic best
friends
(Adam Scott, Jennifer Westfeldt) who decide to have a baby while still pursuing other sex partners. Unamusing complications ensue for unlikable characters. Writer/Director Westfeldt has so much Botox in her upper lip she sounds like Elmer Fudd.
(Adam Scott, Jennifer Westfeldt) who decide to have a baby while still pursuing other sex partners. Unamusing complications ensue for unlikable characters. Writer/Director Westfeldt has so much Botox in her upper lip she sounds like Elmer Fudd.
Hope Springs (2012) - ** ½. Meryl
Streep and Tommy Lee Jones go to a marriage counselor (a one-note Steve Carell). Another potentially provocative film plays it Hollywood - safe.
Jean Smart, Elizabeth Shue, & Mimi Rogers have co-star billing but have
about five lines between them.
Shutter Island (2010) - ** ½.
Scorsese
and DiCaprio go pulp with middling results. Watchable as
always but outlandish plot twists (and
plot holes) and a very contrived conclusion do it in.
Europa ’51 (1952) - ** 1/2 . Murky,
slowly paced Roberto Rossellini/ Ingrid Bergman
film about a rich woman who is compelled to help lower-class people after the suicide
of her son.
Washington Merry Go Round
(1932) - ***. Overlooked depression comedy-drama stars Lee Tracy as a newly elected
senator who vows to clean up congress. One of lovely Constance Cummings’ best Hollywood roles. Clarence Muse brings a
quiet dignity to his role as Tracy’s valet/confidant.
The Heart of New York (1932)
- ** ½. Comedy team Smith & Dale (supposedly the inspiration for Neil Simon’s Sunshine Boys) in one of their few
starring features, which is basically a filmed
Yiddish stage play. Witty word-play disbursed throughout the expected histrionics.
Looper (2012) - * 1/2. Initial
interest wears thin for this overlong
self-important sci-fi mess. Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays a time traveling assassin
who eventually has to kill his future self (Bruce Willis). Gordon-Levitt wears
distracting make-up (apparently to make him resemble Willis) in a film that
just doesn’t make any sense. Stay away.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Saturday, February 9, 2013
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