— by ADAM DALE — It is hard to predict the weekend box office for “The Bourne Legacy” when hits theaters Aug. 10. While it will be a continuation of the previous trilogy, it is substituting another star in the lead role and missing previous franchise front man Matt Damon. Another maj[...]
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Under Review: Total Recall
— by ADAM DALE — When it comes to classic genre films, fans can be less than enthusiastic about the idea of a remake. With ostensibly a more faithful interpretation of Philip K. Dick’s 1966 short story “We Can Remember it for You Wholesale” than the 1990 original starring Arnold Sc[...]
Review: The Dark Knight Rises
— by ADAM DALE — “The Dark Knight Rises” is the third and final film in Christopher Nolan’s trilogy. Starting off in 2005 with “Batman Begins,” continuing with 2008’s “The Dark Knight,” it all ends now with “The Dark Knight Rises,” a fitting conclusion that has been v[...]
Review: Ice Age: Continental Drift
— by ADAM DALE — While many recent animated films have been setting their sights on people of all ages, and adding in the occasional adult –themed joke to appease those with more sophisticated sensibilities, the “Ice Age” franchise has been a consistent force in entertainment for i[...]
Review: The Amazing Spider-Man
— by ADAM DALE — When it was announced that the fourth Spider-Man film was being canceled so the franchise could be rebooted and retooled with an entire new cast, director and storyline, I was less than thrilled. Even though 2007’s “Spider-Man 3” was a lackluster film that seemed t[...]
Review: Ted
— by ADAM DALE — In an outer Boston suburb in the ‘80s, a young boy named John (Mark Wahlberg) spends his Christmas not with the neighborhood kids – who like to beat up the local Jewish kid — but alone wishing that he could have a best friend. When he receives a stuffed teddy[...]
Review: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
— by ADAM DALE — In case you have never heard of him, Seth Grahame-Smith is an author who quickly is becoming sought-after as a screenwriter. With his first mash-up hit, “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,” becoming a hit after its release in 2009, its no surprise that he soon had anot[...]
Review: Searching for Sugarman
— by SHERICE ANTOINETTE — Apparently, one can be famous and not even know it. Such was the case for unknown folk singer Sixto Rodriguez in the ’60s. Discovered by two producers who heard him play in a dive bar in Detroit, Rodriguez was signed to Sussex and A&R records where he[...]
Review: Silenced Voices
— by BEV QUESTAD — “Sri Lanka seems to be cursed. For 30 years it has endured a brutal and seemingly endless ethnic civil war.” These are the words of a beautiful Norwegian journalist, Beate Arnestad, as she rides undercover through checkpoints skirting a fenced-in area of Tamils [...]
Review: Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
— by ADAM DALE — What would you do if you knew the exact time of your death? Go wild, drink, party, get depressed, and make up for lost time? Well, what if it also happened to be every other living being on planet Earth’s last moments as well? That is the core question at […][...]
Review: The New Year
— by SEAN GERSKI — Without too much effort, Sunny can bowl a 300 game … or she can roll a series of gutter balls. She has the talent to bowl as well as she wants, but she has to be motivated. And for Sunny, life is much the same way. She has the tools […][...]
Review: To Rome with Love
— by SHERICE ANTOINETTE — Last year, Woody Allen cleverly wrote and directed the magical and memorable “Midnight in Paris,” for which he won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Previous to “Paris,” Allen revisited London a fourth time with “You Will Meet A Tall Dark [...]
Review: Rock of Ages
— by ADAM DALE — “Rock of Ages” is a hit, award-nominated Broadway Jukebox Musical that has ran on and off since its debut in 2006. In the film version, director Adam Shankman (“Hairspray,” “A Walk to Remember”) has used his background in dance and music to bring the light-he[...]
Review: Special Flight (aka Vol spécial)
— by BEV QUESTAD — Throughout the third world, there is the class of people who work incredible hours at incredibly demanding jobs who don’t get paid a living wage. They live like squatters with make-shift flimsy walls to cover a bed or mat. There is no education for their children and[...]