Best Picture: The Wrestler
Runner-Ups: Slumdog Millionaire, The Reader, The Dark Knight, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Worst Picture: The Love Guru
Runners-Up: Camp Rock, The Happening, First Sunday, Seven Pounds
Best Director: Danny Boyle & Loveleen Tandan, Slumdog Millionaire,Â
Runner-Ups: David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Darren Aronofsky, The Wrestler Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight, [...]
Kevin James goes kiddy-style in Paul Blart: Mall Cop, a nice little surprise that struggles to find its way in the first half-hour, but gains a big heart and some cool action in its final hour. It most definitely falls prey to almost every imaginable kids movie cliche in the book.
James plays Paul Blart, a [...]
2008 has been a fantastic year in film. It was the year that Mickey Rourke, Robert Downey Jr, and Tom Cruise all made comebacks. It was the year that for every major disappointment (Australia, Frost/Nixon), there was a giant surprise (Slumdog Millionaire, The Wrestler). It was the year that the line between big awards contenders [...]
Clint Eastwood became known to us first as The Man With No Name in Sergio Leone’s “Dollars Trilogy”. There’s irony to the fact that he hardly spoke in the role and yet became so iconic. Which makes it really fitting that his final film role should be Walt Kowalski, an outspoken, racist, grouchy, rifle-toting old [...]
Will Smith is undoubtedly the world’s top box-office draw, and a great actor at that. But with Hancock (well…those last 45 minutes) and this, Seven Pounds, his choices lately have been less than great. Or less than average for that matter. He’s reteaming with ‘Pursuit of Happyness’ director Gabriele Muccino.
‘Pursuit’ had its cliches, yes, but [...]
Adam Sandler, when given the right script, can be hilarious, (Billy Madison & Happy Gilmore) or can fall flat on his face. (I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Airheads) Bedtime Stories is his first real foray into the little kids’ territory. Although there’s some cool action sequences and Russell Brand is funny, I hope [...]
Although my reviews are mostly positive (what can I say, I like movies!), there are always movies every year that are awful. Or bad. Or face-meltingly, heartbreakingly bad. For example, even though I gave Speed Racer an F, I saw it a second time and deemed it a ’so-awful-it’s-good’ classic.
5 While Vince Vaughn and Reese [...]
Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, and one adorable dog team up for a better-than-expected family flick, ‘Marley and Me’. The book was very good to begin with. It detailed a crazy, out-of-control, lovable dog. It sold millions, rightfully so. Naturally, Hollywood got their hands on it, put two A-list stars to it, played up the cute [...]