Movie Review: “The Switch” (2010) — Highbrow Crash &...
Ramble in Brief, Movie Review: “Going the Distance” (2010)
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Movie Review: “The Last Exorcism” (2010) — Dispossessed Originality
I had high hopes for “The Switch” and was especially intrigued by the pairing...
“Going the Distance” is like two separate movies. The film’s problem is not one...
Felix Bush (Robert Duvall) is a cantankerous old hermit who’s lived in wooded seclusion...
Throughout his career as a minister, Cotton Marcus (Patrick Fabian) has made good money...
Entertainment Weekly reports that Michael J. Fox will return to TV this season in a guest appearance on CBS’s “The Good Wife.” Fox will play Simon Canning, a cagey lawyer who, like Fox, suffers from a neurological disease (Fox has Parkinson’s). The twist? Canning...
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It may not be TV’s most glamorous late-night show—nor its highest profile—but with its recent renewal, NBC’s “Last Call with Carson Daly” will reach 10 seasons on the air. Daly has quietly spent almost a decade avoiding late-night’s various frays. In the wake of...
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After a disappointing weekend opening for her latest film, “The Switch” (which didn’t even crack the top five, getting beaten out by “Vampires Suck”—ouch), word comes yesterday that Jennifer Aniston will do a guest spot on the upcoming season of Courtney Cox’s hit ABC...
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Syfy channel announced today via press release that it has renewed its hit sci-fi/dramedy series “Eureka” for a fifth season. The show, currently Syfy’s highest rated, revolves around Eureka, a Pacific Northwest town inhabited by geniuses. Operated by a multinational corporation and managed by...
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Critic Tim Ryan of rottentomatoes.com offers a nice tribute today to “At the Movies,” the groundbreaking, venerable movie review show, which aired its final episode last night. The show had, in recent years, suffered a precipitous drop in popularity. It ran, in one form or...
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I had high hopes for “The Switch” and was especially intrigued by the pairing of Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman. The pair partially lived up to my expectations, but, with the exception of Jeff Goldblum, there’s little else to recommend this movie. “The Switch” takes an intriguing premise, pairs it with a poor script...
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“Going the Distance” is like two separate movies. The film’s problem is not one of organization or of too many plot threads; neither are there issues with character consistency or cast chemistry. No, the single biggest problem with this date movie about the travails of maintaining a long-distance relationship is this: the first half...
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Felix Bush (Robert Duvall) is a cantankerous old hermit who’s lived in wooded seclusion over 40 years. He’s a brooding, mysterious type, with a murky past and an aura of menace that makes townspeople avoid him like the devil. Almost no one has anything positive to say about him. When Felix makes an unexpected...
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Throughout his career as a minister, Cotton Marcus (Patrick Fabian) has made good money performing fraudulent exorcisms on people who, by his own accounts, suffer more from mental and emotional disorders than from true demonic possession. Cotton doesn’t even believe in demons. But after years of rationalizing his spiritual hucksterism, Cotton’s conscience has finally...
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No one will ever mistake George Clooney’s assassin from “The American” with Jason Bourne. “The American” certainly won’t be listed among 2010’s top 10 films, either—despite my dubious prediction to the contrary based on its trailer—but it might be remembered as one of 2010’s most visually striking. Clooney’s performance as an assassin named Edward...
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“The Losers” inevitably drew comparisons for me to one of this summer’s biggest action tickets, “The A-Team”. Both are action films centering on elite military units wrongfully accused of a crime. Both military units work to clear their names against a wealthy, powerful enemy connected to the military-industrial complex. blu ray movie review; blu...
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Producer Robert Rodriguez makes the most of “Predators” “limited” $40 million budget with a Spartan use of special effects and with limited the screen time for the film’s alien creatures. The script, while not Academy-award material, is surprisingly tight and efficient; Nimrod Antal’s direction is equally efficient. Don’t expect many surprises here, though. Otherwise,...
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The Hollywood Reporter reports that the ever-captivating Jessica Alba is currently in negotiations to star in writer/director Robert Rodriguez’s “Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World.” “Spy Kids 4” will reportedly center on Alba’s character, a married, recently re-activated spy and the mother of a toddler and two preteen stepchildren. The film’s...
This past weekend, several reports surfaced that Angelina Jolie’s next project would be a love story set against the Bosnian War of the early ‘90s. The reports were vague regarding Jolie’s role in the project, but the blogosphere mostly assumed she would star. Not so. The Official Blog of GK Films clarified the situation...
“Piranha 3D” made a paltry $10 million this weekend, qualifying it for sixth place in the weekly box-office derby. Despite this being “Piranha’s” debut weekend, mind you, it finished behind three multi-week titles: “The Expendables” (two weeks), “Eat Pray Love” (two weeks), and “The Other Guys” (three weeks). And yet, in what might be...
H“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” are on their way back to a multiplex near you. The Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision Blog recently reported that the TMNT property, whose rights were purchased by Nickelodeon last October from the Mirage Group and 4Kids Entertainment for $60 million, is being fast-tracked for a new big-screen adventure. Paramount Pictures,...
After a disappointing weekend opening for her latest film, “The Switch” (which didn’t even crack the top five, getting beaten out by “Vampires Suck”—ouch), word comes yesterday that Jennifer Aniston will do a guest spot on the upcoming season of Courtney Cox’s hit ABC comedy “Cougar Town.” UGO’s actressarchives.com reports that Aniston will play...
If you thought David Fincher’s upcoming “The Social Network” would be the last word in dramatized computer-nerd biopics, guess again. Deadline recently reported that producers Michael London and John Morris have optioned Ken Auletta’s book “Googled: The End of the World As We Know It.” London’s Groundswell Productions will handle the project. The book...
Season 3’s finale finds Leonard still pining for Penny. In an interesting twist, however,...
“The Staircase Implementation” is easily among my favorite season 3 episodes. Strictly speaking, it’s...
Sheldon has a house guest in week 21’s “The Plimpton Stimulation”—a young woman who...
Things are awkward between Penny and Leonard as “The Spaghetti Catalyst” opens, with Penny...
