AltWeeklies Wire
Slippery Slope: 'Hot Tub Time Machine'new
John Cusack returns to the '80s in the crass yet funny Hot Tub.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
03-25-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Hot Tub Time Machine, Steve Pink
Emotion Exposed! Noah Baumbach's 'Greenberg'new
Noah Baumbach twists a clichéd romance-movie trope to make it seem new again with Greenberg.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
03-25-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Greenberg, Noah Baumbach
'Alice in Wonderland' is Not So Wondrousnew
Tim Burton is heavy on visuals but light on story with Alice in Wonderland.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
03-17-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Alice in Wonderland, Tim Burton
For This Werner Herzog Film, the Title Says It Allnew
Werner Herzog uses an amateurish script and bizarre acting to create a film that makes it seem like he lost a bet.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
03-17-2010 |
Reviews
Forest Whitaker Stinks Up This Unfunny, Unoriginal Wedding Movienew
Every so often in a bad movie, there's one good scene just dying to get out. Clearly, it's the aberration, because there's nothing else to recommend the film—but for a fleeting moment, everything just goes right.
Tucson Weekly |
Colin Boyd |
03-17-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Our Family Wedding, Rick Famuyiwa
Lacking Intelligence: Even the Ever-Cool Matt Damon Can't Salvage Thisnew
It's admirable when a director tries to go beyond just blowing things up in a war movie (as Kathryn Bigelow did successfully with The Hurt Locker) — but good intentions are never enough. Witness the thrown-together optical assault that is Green Zone.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
03-17-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Green Zone, Paul Greengrass
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
When it Comes to the Oscars, Tom is on Team 'Hurt Locker'new
It's Oscar time, and you know what that means! OK, I don't know what that means, either, but I might actually tune in to the last 15 minutes, just to see if the gutless wonders who run Hollywood will reward The Hurt Locker and leave James Cameron to cry in his billion-dollar box-office take from Avatar.
Tucson Weekly |
Tom Danehy |
03-03-2010 |
Movies
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
