Max Payne Movie Reviews
In The world of stupid action movies, there are plenty more stupider than Max Payne but the fact that it has pretensions to quality is depressing. It means someone must have decided to stop it getting too smart, once it reached a level of not too dumb. This happens all the time in Lalawood, where smart people get paid to stop movies becoming too highbrow. It is not the same as failing, even if it is a kind of failure. It is institutionalised lack-of-quality control, born out of the bastard birth of the movies as cheap, dumb and illicit fun more than 100 years ago. Read more
American Teen Movie Reviews
“American Teen” is populated by high school archetypes, kids who might have stepped out of the mists of your own adolescence or, if you’ve managed to suppress those memories, out of other teen movies, from the canonical works of John Hughes to, um, “Not Another Teen Movie.” Read more
Brideshead Revisited Movie Reviews
The new movie version of Brideshead Revisited stays relatively true to Waugh’s plot, and Julian Jarrold has directed it lavishly, but the main difference is that the film’s emotions keep sloshing around on the surface. Sebastian Flyte, the troubled, indulgent rich kid who still carries a teddy bear, and whose guilt about his homosexual leanings turns him into a drunk, is now a flamboyant, hair-tossing delinquent played by Ben Whishaw with a pout so petulant he makes Jonathan Rhys Meyers look like a smiley-face button. Read more
Falling For Grace Movie Reviews
When Grace Tang (actress-writer-director Fay Ann Lee) attends a high-society party in New York City, everyone mistakes her for a famous Hong Kong heiress. In reality, Grace hails from Chinatown. Will this ruin her budding romance with one of New York’s most eligible bachelors (Gale Harold, QUEER AS FOLK)? Comedians Margaret Cho and Lewis Black also star in this romantic comedy. Read more
Eight Miles High Movie Reviews
Eight Miles High (Das Wilde Leben) tells the incredible true story of European wild-child Uschi Obermaier. The film tracks her restless life from a small town girl in rural Bavaria to a fast-living fashion icon in Munich; from free-loving companion of the Rolling Stones to ultimately becoming the embodiment of the 60’s generation of sex, drugs, and rock’n'roll. This is one woman’s story about the discovery of freedom and the price one must ultimately pay to achieve it. Read more
Transsiberian Movie Reviews
This movie is difficult to describe without giving away too much of its plot. Like the portrayal of the locals along the Transsiberian, the focal points in the film are so stark and significant that a descriptive plotline would give away too much. That is not to say that this film is simple by any means, but any revealing of what comes along the way also reveals too much about what the storyline really is about. Read more
Space Chimps Movie Reviews
Three NASA chimps are sent to a galaxy far, far away. Two chimps have ‘The Right Stuff,’ and the other, a good natured goof ball, has ‘The Wrong Stuff.’ Together all three find themselves on a strange, uncharted planet, where they embark on a fantastical journey to save its inhabitants from a tyrannical leader. Read more
The Doorman Movie Reviews
The doorman movie is an indie film starring Lucas Akoskin will be coming out July 18th at the city cinema village east movie theater. The film is a mock documentary of a manhattan club doorman and follows his life and career as a doorman. It is hilarious and well made! Read more
Mad Detective Movie Reviews
Mad Detective? You got it. Officer Bun (Ching Wan Lau) has a reputation, not unlike director Johnny To, for beguiling acts of self-torture to prove that he means business. When Ho (Andy On), his new partner, first meets him, the detective is busy stabbing the hanging corpse of a large pig. A moment later, Ho is asked to zip Bun inside a piece of luggage and toss him down several flights of stairs. By the time Bun goes Picasso on his ear to honor the retiring Chief of Police, you’re not surprised by much of anything he does. Read more
Mamma Mia Movie Reviews
Meryl Streep leads an all-star cast in the feature-film adaptation of the beloved musical that has been seen by more than 30 million people in 160 cities and 8 languages around the world. Bringing the timeless lyrics and melodies of iconic super group ABBA to movie audiences, Summer 2008 is the season for Mamma Mia! The three women who created the worldwide smash stage hit—global producer Judy Craymer, writer Catherine Johnson and director Phyllida Lloyd—repeat their roles in bringing this joyful, musical story to the big screen. Read more
