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Alternative Education
Steve Pink’s directorial debut is a slight but punchy comedy of college-aged misfits that starts out strong before slipping down a greasy narrative slope into a dull third act that denies most of the laughs that preceded.
Tags: Accepted, Steve Pink
Hip-Hop And Ballet Don’t Mix
The questionable concept of mixing ballet with hip-hop dance moves is explored only as far as Line Dance choreography will allow.
Tags: Anne Fletcher, Step Up
Too Violent for Kids
This movie is skewed toward authoritarian attitudes and fear.
Tags: Steve Oedekerk, Barnyard
Women Spelunkers Find Out What’s In The Cave
Traumatizing terror serves as the ultimate right to passage for surviving the horrors of the real world in British writer/director Neil Marshall’s (“Dog Soldiers”) gory and cathartic horror film about a group of six women adventurers on a doomed spelunking journey.
Tags: Neil Marshall, The Descent
Scarlett Gets Scoopednew
I sat down with Scarlett at Manhattan's Waldorf Astoria Hotel on a balmy Sunday morning to find out more about the New York-based actress.
Maui Time |
Cole Smithey |
07-24-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Scoop, Woody Allen
An Unpolished Vehicle For Scarlettnew
Scoop may not rise to the narrative ingenuity of Match Point but it does capture Scarlett Johansson paraphrasing Allen's signature amusing rhythms.
Tags: Scoop, Woody Allen
M. Night Shyamalan Sinks To The Bottom
Inflated from an impromptu “bedtime story” that Shyamalan invented for his children, “Lady In The Water” is a hackneyed story about a water nymph inappropriately named “Story” (Bryce Dallas Howard) who resides at the bottom of an apartment complex swimming pool.
Wilson Carries The Comedy
You, Me and Dupree subsists purely on vibe, namely Owen Wilson's ever-boyish vibe of an innocence that has overstayed its welcome long into adulthood.
Linklater Pushes The Envelope
Richard Linklater gives an audacious cinematic adaptation of Philip K. Dick's 1977 novel about corporate/government surveillance of a public led by their noses with drug addictions similarly fueled and fed by the "system."
The Man of Steel Bears A Heavy Heart
Superman Returns is a sumptuous cinematic experience where its necessary spectacle never takes a front seat to the drama's emotional core.
Tags: Bryan Singer, Superman Returns
