Posts Tagged ‘he’s’
Paul: Ancient Alien
Though filled with stereotypes and clichés, this road-trip buddy comedy still scores some laughs.COLE WILLIAMS
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost go on a road trip with an alien: comedy gold, right? Well, close. Paul has a lot going for it, but it doesn’t quite reach the pinnacle of genre-comedy that the talent involved would lead you to expec...
Cedar Rapids: Oh Ooo Oh Iowa
It’s the greatest insurance convention comedy ever.KRISTIAN LIN
The trailer for Cedar Rapids is edited to make it look like another version of The Hangover, which makes sense because Ed Helms stars in both movies and they’re both comedies about bacchanalian hijinks at a hotel. Tempting as...
Cowboys and Amphibians
Yee-haw! A strange animated Western leads this week’s films.KRISTIAN LIN
This week’s films all trade in outright fantasy, but only one of them succeeds in turning the tropes of fable and science fiction into a bizarre and wondrous alternate reality.
Packers vs. Steelers: Statistically Speaking
ERIC GRIFFEYAmid all the frenzy over Super Bowl XLV, true Dallas Cowboys fans haven’t lost sight of one painful fact: In the most important game yet to be played in that Arlington sports palace, the world will be watching the only two te...
Rabbit Hole: Childless Parents
The drama is only above-average in this story of bereavement.KRISTIAN LIN
Whither the prestige picture? I’m talking about straightforward, visually handsome, modestly budgeted films that feature a few high-powered actors tackling weighty issues, usually working from a script with a literary or thea...
The Rite Is Wrong
Anthony Hopkins’ hamming is the scariest thing in this exorcism flick.KRISTIAN LIN
In the past I wondered whether they were running out of titles for movies that take place on submarines. Now I’m wondering whether they’re running out of titles for exorcism movies. This latest one is called The Rite, and i...
Film Shorts
KRISTIAN LINOPENING: The Way Back (PG-13) Colin Farrell and Ed Harris star in Peter Weir’s historical drama about escapees from a Siberian gulag who walked 4,000 miles to freedom in India. Also with Jim Sturgess, Mark Strong, Dragos Bucu...
Hellfire and Eagle Rock
HearsayIf you’re a regular reader, you’re probably well aware of Indian Casino Records, a Seattle label run by Haltom City ex-pat John Frum. Though times have been hard, the label continues churning out product, including a new ba...
We Need to Leave in The Next Three Days
Forget jail — a fugitive family must escape Pittsburgh in this thriller.KRISTIAN LIN
Best known as the filmmaker who inflicted Crash upon the world, Paul Haggis turns his attention to popcorn entertainment in The Next Three Days, a remake of a 2008 French thriller released in English-speaking countries as Anyth...
Talk of The Town
Is Ben Affleck the next Michael Mann? Could be.KRISTIAN LIN
After all this time, after having his private life extensively dragged through the tabloids by a series of high-profile romances, after becoming a pop culture punching bag, after starring in Gigli for God’s sake, what if Ben ...