The Underworld Awakening movie,stands fourth in the vampires-vs.-werewolves action-horror franchise,as creatures of the night arose with a vengeance, won the weekend box-office battle at North American theaters with $25.4 million, according to preliminary studio estimates. Red Tails, George Lucas’s tribute to the black Tuskegee Airmen in World War II, flew high with $19.1 million [...]
Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton star in an aggressively uplifting musical that will leave you either snarling or singing or maybe both in Joyful Noise movie.
In every movie, reviewer lurks two creatures: the critic and the fan. The critic analyzes and cauterizes, coolly judging a film’s manipulation of its audience. The fan sits there and [...]
The producer of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol forced the star to perform some pretty hairy stunts. But since Tom Cruise is the producer (and star) of this fourth feature-film spinoff of the ’60s TV series, we can assume that he wanted to assert his limber muscularity as he approaches 50. So here he is, [...]
Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron) peaked early. At her rural Minnesota high school she was the prom queen and Superior Blond Being, and clever enough to think she might become a famous writer. All the girls wanted to be her; all the boys wanted to bed her. Back then, Mavis ran with that other species of [...]
In Real Steel, Dreamworks’ lavishly photographed deadbeat-dad redemption story, retired boxer and practicing flim-flam man Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman) explains the origin of robot boxing to his long-lost 11-year-old son Max (Dakota Goyo). The action is set in the near future, sometime after 2016 (the exact year is vague). He and Max are reluctantly reunited [...]
