Starring:
Ryan Phillippe, Abbie Cornish, Channing Tatum, Joseph
Gordon-Levi…
Review:
Here’s the first major movie of the new year that touches
greatness, and damn if there isn’t a curse hanging over it.
Stop-Loss, directed with ferocity and feeling by Kimberly
Peirce (Boys Don’t Cry), is up against the war raging
between audiences and films about Iraq. Box-office casualties last
year include Lions for Lambs, […]

Starring:
Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth, Laurence Fishburne, Kevin Spacey
Review:
Odds are you’re going to like this lively spin on the true story of
six MIT mathletes who broke the Vegas bank in the 1990s. Loosely
adapted from Ben Mezrich’s best-selling Bringing Down the
House, the movie stretches facts like taffy but never shirks
its responsibility to entertain. And, jeez, it’s a […]

Starring:
Simon Pegg, Hank Azaria, Ameet Chana, Dylan Moran, Thandie Newton
Review:
Why in hell is queens-born David Schwimmer making his directing
debut with a British farce? Damned if I know. But the
Friends star has a welcome eye for laughs that sneak in
around familiar corners. It’s also a large comic boost that Simon
Pegg, the offbeat star of Shaun of […]

Starring:
Jared Leto, Lindsay Lohan
Review:
Don’t hammer this film for trying to get inside the head of Mark
David Chapman before he shot John Lennon outside the rock legend’s
New York apartment on December 8th, 1980. Hammer it instead for
failing to do so with any depth or insight. It’s not that Jared
Leto, who gained nearly seventy pounds to play […]