Produced by Elizabeth Banks (my first true love) Pitch Perfect looks like it’s one long, fabulous, funny, guilty pleasure.
Read moreMan on a Ledge
The title says it all, really: Aussie Brickie Sam Worthington spends an entire movie stuck on a ledge, twenty-something floors up and on the outside of the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan. Elizabeth Banks is the cop who has to talk him down, Ed Harris the corrupt businessman that Sam’s trying to nab in the most…
Read moreHunger Games
The Hunger Games – the gazillion dollar box office success story – is set in a dystopian future where an uneasy peace is enforced nearly a century after a brutal civil war in North America. As penance for their part in the uprising against the central power, the districts outlying the Capitol are forced once…
Read moreThe Next Three Days
After the runaway train drama Unstoppable, it’s back to Pittsburgh for me, for the latest Russell Crowe vehicle, The Next Three Days. Chopsy old Russ plays a dowdy, lumpy lit professor at a community college whose firecracker wife (Elizabeth Banks! Love!) is thrown in jail for a murder she may or may not have committed,…
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Oh oh oh: I really heart Elizabeth Banks. She should be a mega-star by now. And though I admit to being much less fond of Mr. Crowe, I do like his (recent, less self-indulgent) choice of films. And this latest – The Next Three Days – looks ten-points-you-win-the-Opel-Monza.
Read moreZack and Miri make a porno
As Justin Long suggests quite early on in the film, I am exactly not the demographic for Zack and Miri make a Porno. Imagine it as a kind of When Harry Met Sally with vulgar language and enhanced breasts and yet more fantastically faked orgasms. Zack and Miri have been friends since high school, but…
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