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The 7 Adventures of Sinbad
Thursday, May 20th, 2010Takers
Friday, May 14th, 2010Iron Man 2
Friday, May 7th, 2010
Iron Man is, for better and worse, a superhero for our times. Played with charismatic aplomb once again by Robert Downey Jr., Tony Stark is a bundle of contradictions—narcissistic yet selfless, deeply flawed yet ultimately heroic. While some superheroes skirt the celebrity culture that surrounds them, Tony dives in and swims in it, constructing for himself an outrageous public persona that both reflects and protects his true self. He struggles with his flaws, trying to correct them even as he excuses them. So for a man of iron, Tony is the superhero who seems, paradoxically, the most familiar to us—the most like ourselves.
And that, I think, is where the power in the Iron Man series lurks. Tony is not a “too good to be true” halcyon like Superman, nor is he a tragically flawed antihero such as those found in Watchmen. He’s a frat house kind of guy who wants to do good, and often does so—in spite of himself.
Iron Man 2 has all the baggage you’d expect in a 2010 superhero film. While it’s a touch less problematic than its predecessor, it still fires up some foul language, some gratuitous sexuality, some heavy-duty (though not grotesque) violence.
But it also gives us a prism through which we can examine evil, ponder good and see someone who’s willing to face down the former to hold up the latter. Tony Stark should not be a role model. But he does suggest that furiously flawed folks—jerks like us—can be heroes.
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A Nightmare on Elm Street
Thursday, April 29th, 2010It is almost foolish to attempt to offer any sort of profound critique on one more Nightmare on Elm Avenue flick. Since Freddy Krueger first scraped collectively and waggled his metallic claw-fingers again in 1984, there has never been any mystery about what an audience will get from this seemingly never-ending franchise.
Every time he’s ingloriously shoved back onto middle stage, we see the identical grisly charred killer in his murky, ever-burning boiler room. The identical tormented, sleep-disadvantaged teens being stabbed, pummeled, slashed and then left to dribble, gush or vomit buckets of gore. The same over-amplified crashes, screams and orchestral shrieks designed to not solely make moviegoers soar however depart them suffering from a untimely case of tinnitus.
There is not any vital political or social subtext to ponder. (Though some critics tried because the years have flown by.) No scintillating dialogue to relish. (The script comes off sounding like one thing crafted with cigarette burn marks on the back of a cocktail napkin.)
The only actual difference this time around is that the pre-charbroiled Freddy has escalated from twisted youngster killer to lurid pedophile.
So if there’s something deserving severe critique, I suppose it would have to be the filmmakers who determined to remake this mess. (Again.) And the millions of souls who sit and watch it. (Again.)
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The Back-up Plan
Friday, April 23rd, 2010“Some issues can last eternally,” Stan tells Zoe. He’s attempting to reassure her that a type of issues is their love for one another-that he’ll never go away her irrespective of how much she might consider he has no motive to stay.
So they have that going for them.
However then there are things that merely appear to last forever. Like, for instance, this film. The Again-up Plan was purported to be, I believe, an update of a classic romance-one which begins out with having children, fairly than ending there. It culminates in engagement and, apparently, true love. Alongside the way in which, it studiously avoids all that old style traditionalism seen in romances of yesteryear.
However I still imagine in love, marriage and family, in that order. You would possibly too. And partly because of that, The Again-up Plan did not a lot resonate with me. And it strikes me that it may truly do some harm.
Whereas the premise of the romance centers on the need to have children and the unspoken belief that buying them will deliver happiness, most of what we actually hear about youngsters is negative. They put dinner on their heads. They play with unfamiliar feces. They’re “awful.” They’re “horrid.”
Zoe, whereas she desperately wants youngsters, seems to see them not as sacred obligations, but reasonably accoutrements. She’s obsessed with their clothes, consumed with their strollers. And when asked why she wants youngsters, she says she would not wish to be alone.
So The Again-up Plan is about Zoe and Stan and their love for one another. The kids, slightly than being the movie’s ultimate present, are its reoccurring obstacle. And as these twins were born, I could not help but suppose that they’d higher develop up fairly shortly-simply in case their parents get tired of them.
Perhaps I am not giving due credit. In spite of everything, we do see Stan reading a bedtime story to them earlier than tucking them in at night. Few of us, when we become mother and father, are really ready. It’s laborious to understand the thrill, the trials and somber duties that come with parenthood, and most of us learn alongside the way. So I ought to probably be more forgiving on the subject of Zoe and Stan.
But when this movie has some sweetness to it, the content material it shows is as sour as a hunk of gorgonzola left within the solar for six weeks. And that makes me a bit cranky. Its foul language and frank sexuality spoil whatever meager charms it’d’ve offered.

Survival of the Dead
Thursday, April 8th, 2010Recommended Movies: Green Zone Dear John The Road Invictus Did You Hear About The Morgans?
Date Night
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010“This could have been so good.”
So says DA Frank Crenshaw. It’s his sick evaluation of Phil and Claire’s impromptu strip membership performance. And he is as mistaken as mistaken can be. But if he’d stated that about the movie during which he appears, he’d be right on the money.
Date Night’s premise is a terrific one, maybe because it was born of a genuine aha second in director Shawn Levy’s life. Within the movie’s manufacturing notes, Levy stated, “I used to be within the process of creating the second Night time at the Museum movie and, as is type of our ritual, as soon as a week, my wife and I am going out to dinner.” He went on to explain how they had been talking about the same stuff they all the time talk about-work, the kids, schedules-when he had an idea. “I mentioned to my spouse, ‘Would not it be cool to do a movie about a date night time, where you simply did one thing differently? And, from there, you could have an unraveling of everything, to the purpose of it threatening your life and your marriage, with every kind of crazy stuff going on. But, in the midst of all that loopy stuff, you find yourself recapturing the vitality that date evening was invented within the first place to preserve.”
That is an ideal summary of what I was hoping to see once I showed up for a screening of the film. Add within the considerable comedic abilities of Steve Carell and Tina Fey and, like I mentioned, this could have been so good.
However then there’s all that “loopy stuff,” as Levy calls it. I will call it what it is: perverse. Once issues get rolling, verbal references to sex are constant, and we hear about anal intercourse, masturbation, threesomes, foursomes, S&M paraphernalia and prostitution. We see a strip club-and Claire buying and selling in her evening gown for a corset to affix her husband on the stripper pole.
Date nights are great ideas. Date Evening … not so much.

Dante’s Inferno: An Animated Epic
Monday, April 5th, 2010Recommended Movies: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest American Pie Presents: The Book Of Love Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Incoming search terms for this Movie: dantes inferno animated epic stream
In the Darkness
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010Recommended Movies: Edge of Darkness Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest American Pie Presents: The Book Of Love Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone








