AltWeeklies Wire
Old-Fashioned Horror Film Has Ample Scares and Fun Suspensenew
Zack Snyder began his Dawn of the Dead remake with The Man Comes Around, and director Breck Eisner has utilized Cash's version of We'll Meet Again to kick off his redo of The Crazies. Cash's wavering, vulnerable voice acts as a nice precursor to zombie terror.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
03-03-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: The Crazies, Breck Eisner
Bruce Willis and a Surprisingly Tame Mood Ultimately Bring Down 'Cop Out'new
Regrettably, the film almost feels afraid of the genre. For an R-rated tribute to the trash cinema of yesteryear, it feels like PG-13 fluff. There aren't nearly enough F-bombs; there's absolutely no nudity, and very little explosive blood.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
03-03-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Cop Out, Kevin Smith
Crazy Good: 'Shutter Island' is a Creepy Masterpiecenew
Martin Scorsese manages to keep the audience off-balance for the entire experience, while Leonardo DiCaprio blasts the roof off the place with a gut-wrenching performance. Neither of them misses a beat, and the film will captivate those of you willing to be floored.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
02-24-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Shutter Island, Martin Scorsese
'The White Ribbon' is Impressive but Not Necessarily Enjoyablenew
The film The White Ribbon follows the recollections of a schoolteacher (played by Christian Friedel as a young man, and Ernst Jacobi in voiceover narration) who looks back some 50 years to a time just before World War I, when he worked in the small German village of Eichwald.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
02-24-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke
Bad Doggy: 'The Wolfman' Doesn't Quite Succeednew
After some monumental struggles — including director replacements and many postponements — The Wolfman is finally in theaters, and those problems are evident in the finished product. It doesn't quite succeed, depsite a great effort from Benicio del Toro.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
02-17-2010 |
Reviews
'The Last Station' an Amusing, Breast-Filled Romantic Comedynew
It's as though modern breasts are sleazy and exploitive, but period breasts enlighten our moral conscience. Strangely, audiences that get picky about the historical accuracy of sets and costumes never complain about an anachronistic bosom.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
02-17-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: The Last Station, Michael Hoffman
More Magic Needed: 'Parnassus' Doesn't Worknew
Heath Ledger is solid in his final film, but the movie itself doesn't work. Ledger had already filmed a bunch of scenes when he passed away in January 2008. Rather than scrap the film, Terry Gilliam and friends came up with an idea to keep the project moving forward.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
01-13-2010 |
Reviews
Pretentiously Played: Peter Jackson's Sickly Sweet Schlocknew
'The Lovely Bones' is a steaming, treacly pile of excrescence, frosted with visuals that look like they were adapted from the pink, lace-covered dream journal of a unicorn-collecting scrapbooker. Essentially, if Walt Disney made a movie about the rape and murder of a teenager, this is the movie he'd make.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
01-13-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: The Lovely Bones, Peter Jackson
Emily Blunt Proves She Can Carry a Film With Her Portrayal of Queen Victorianew
Emily Blunt absolutely sparkles in period-drama The Young Victoria, a film that manages to be a good (though embellished) piece of history and strikingly romantic at the same time.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
01-06-2010 |
Reviews
An Autistic Child Gets Aid From Mongolian Shamans in an Effective Documentarynew
The Horse Boy is a documentary about Rowan, a 5-year-old boy with severe autism-related behavioral problems. His father, Rupert Isaacson, is a journalist and human-rights activist who loves horses.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
01-06-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Michel O. Scott, The Horse Boy
It's Over-Complicated: Meryl Streep is Terrible in Nancy Meyers' New Movienew
While there are some good laughs in It's Complicated, the latest from writer-director Nancy Meyers, the film is actually done in by a surprising culprit of bad overacting—none other than the ever-reliable Meryl Streep.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
12-31-2009 |
Reviews
Tags: It's Complicated, Nancy Meyers
'Invictus' Starts Out Strong, But Devolves Into a Mediocre Sports Movienew
The film seems like it's on its way to greatness in the beginning, with Nelson Mandela dealing with the difficulties of being South Africa's first black president. Unfortunately, the film goes off track; by its underwhelming sporting-event finale, it has completely lost focus.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
12-10-2009 |
Reviews
'Bronson' Fails at Melding Violence, Artsy Filmmaking and Naked Penisesnew
Knowing that there's an audience of action-loving young men who'll pay to see violence and bloodshed, director Nicolas Winding Refn loaded his movie up with fighting, Dada-esque mime sequences and full frontal male nudity. Because: Huh?
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
12-10-2009 |
Reviews
Tags: Bronson, Nicolas Winding Refn
Fantastic Mr. Fox: Coop Coupnew
Wes Anderson conquers animation with the charming Fantastic Mr. Fox.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
12-02-2009 |
Reviews
Tags: Fantastic Mr. Fox, Wes Anderson
Humans are Evil new
Antichrist might be worth hating, but the film is nonetheless incredibly compelling.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
12-02-2009 |
Reviews
Tags: Antichrist, Lars von Trier
