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A co-production with legendary Aardman Animations, the film is a welcome addition to the Christmas-movie oeuvre and will likely become a seasonal favourite, destined to rerun every December alongside old chestnuts like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Santa Claus is Coming to Town. The story, which is clever and...
I’ll be honest, I had zero interest in seeing it. The trailers made it look tedious and Elizabethan and, to me, woefully dull. After sitting through a recent string of cinematic disappointments, watching a 130-minute film about who wrote Shakespeare’s plays? No thanks. But, lo! What’s this? It was...
Written and directed by Joe Cornish, and starring a cast made up of mostly unknowns, the spirited little film takes a standard-issue plot – namely, aliens invade Earth – and drops the action into a gritty South London housing project. Teenaged hooligans Moses (John Boyega), Pest (Alex Esmail), Dennis...
If I’m being honest, this movie is sort of like a half-assed alien-invasion thriller combined with a half-assed cowboy shoot-‘em-up, and neither side really delivers the “omigoshWOW!” needed to make the whole thing as fantastic as it definitely could have been. Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford co-star as, respectively,...
I’m not sure when or where Bad Teacher went wrong, or why it feels like it used to be a different movie that was somehow re-edited into this sloppy, unfunny mess, but it’s not good. Not good at all. Cameron Diaz stars as Elizabeth Halsey, a middle-school “teacher” who...
Packed as much with action and special effects as it is rich in story and detail for fans and newbies alike, X-Men: First Class delivers a summer-movie experience more on par with X2 than the muddled and tepid X-Men: The Last Stand. And, as far as origins stories go,...
Is it the most sophisticated live-action/animated film ever? No. Will it win the Best Animated Feature Oscar next year? Highly doubtful. But is it fun and harmless and entertaining? I certainly thought so. Directed by Tim Hill, whose last big-screen effort was the absolutely dreadful Alvin and the Chipmunks,...
The one-man-against-the-odds drama revolves entirely around James Franco’s terrific solo performance as Aron Ralston, the skilled but somewhat reckless rock climber whose self-preservation instincts ultimately saved his life when a 2003 climbing accident left his arm pinned under a boulder. Trapped by himself in the middle of nowhere and...
This time around, youngest Pevensie siblings Lucy (Georgie Healey) and Edmund (Skandar Keynes) find themselves transported from WWII-era London to Narnia, with their obnoxious cousin, Eustace (Will Poulter), in tow. They splash down in the sea and are promptly plucked from their plight by Prince Caspian (Ben Barnes, who’s...
Directed by Will Gluck (Fired Up!), the film centers on wallflower Olive Penderghast (Stone), who agrees to pretend to have sex with a gay classmate (Dan Byrd) so the other kids in school will think him straight and stop giving him a hard time. But that favor quickly leads...
Julia Roberts stars as Gilbert, who leaves her husband (Billy Crudup) and embarks on what’s meant to be a year-long global journey of self-discovery but which, in Roberts hands, sort of turns into the travelogue of a self-absorbed woman who doesn’t really do much changing. Like the book, the...
Tom Cruise stars as Roy Miller, a CIA agent who may or may not have gone rogue, but who’s nonetheless on the run from his former partner, Fitzgerald (Peter Sarsgaard, turning in a trademark creepy-villain performance), and the director of the agency (Viola Davis) because he’s in possession of...
