Knight and Day: Up in the Air
I’m not in the habit of using the word “piffle.” Yet that sprang to mind as I was watching Knight and Day, and the...
Dragon Tattoo: I Love Playing with Fire
It’s not every week that a Swedish novelist who’s been dead for six years makes the cover of Entertainment Weekly. Such is the engrossing...
Pixar Re-Opens Its Toy Chest
The following statement is true –– and also pretty much meaningless: Toy Story 3 is the weakest Pixar movie in the last 10 years....
Please Give Weaves a Guilt-Edged Story
If there’s any doubt that Nicole Holofcener should have filmed the Sex and the City movie, her latest comedy Please Give should remove it....
The Karate Kid: Kung Fu Shuffle
All right, this is bugging me: Why is this movie entitled The Karate Kid? I understand why the filmmakers would want to keep the...
David Lowery Creates a Mood
Since so many locally produced films are cheap horror flicks, it’s refreshing to see something like David Patrick Lowery’s St. Nick, a drama about...
A Rock Star’s Greek Orgy
About two-thirds of the way through Get Him to the Greek, it all clicked for me. In the middle of a scene at a...
Mother and Child: Missing Girls
Rodrigo García makes his living as a director of episodes of TV shows such as In Treatment and Six Feet Under. However, the son...
MacGruber: The ’80s Live! (Sort Of)
What a strange trip it’s been for MacGruber. At first, a movie made from the recurring series of Saturday Night Live sketches seemed like...
Sex and the City 2: Hanging On
Sex and the City 2 picks up two years after the first, with the wedding of Stanford (Willie Garson) and Anthony (Mario Cantone), Carrie’s...
