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Review: ‘This is the End’ is pretty damn funny
Film Comments Jun 12, 2013 4:24pmSweeping privacy breaches by the NSA, tornadoes at every turn, the spawning of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West — maybe this really is the end of the world. If it is, let’s hope we can find the good...
Improvised real talk continues in ‘Before Midnight’
Film Comments Updated: Jun 19, 2013 5:36pmMovies, for the most part, are low- or middle-brow entertainment. Only a fraction are great. Richard Linklater’s Before trilogy — Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004) and the new Before...
Review: Someone save Superman
Film Comments Jun 12, 2013 3:06pmHere’s the central problem with Superman as a character: He has one material weakness. Get your hands on some kryptonite and you’re on to something. Beyond that, you probably won’t muss his hair....
CineList, 6.13.13
Film Comments Jun 12, 2013 3:06pmNEW RELEASESPICK - Before Midnight (R, 108 mins) See review, this issue.Man of Steel (PG-13, 143 mins) See review, this issue.PICK - This is the End (R, 107 mins) See review, this issue.NOW PLAYING42...
The mayhem holiday of ‘The Purge’ fails to deliver any insight into its idealitstic goals
Film Comments Jun 05, 2013 4:27pmThe Purge positions utopia as a reborn United States, with 1 percent unemployment and staggeringly low crime. But here’s the trade-off: One night a year, all crime is legal. This cleansing of the...
CineList, 6.6.13
Film Comments Updated: Jun 05, 2013 4:22pmNew ReleasesThe Internship (PG-13, 119 mins) Two unemployed men (Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson) try and score a job at Google by first going through a rigorous intern program.Love Is All You Need (R, 110...
CineList, 5.30.13
Film Comments May 29, 2013 4:51pmNEW RELEASESAfter Earth (PG-13, 100 mins) Will Smith and his son star as refugees on an abandoned, desolate and unsafe planet Earth.Ephraim’s Rescue (PG) Ephraim Hanks is moved by faith to save a...
Five thoughts about the new Liberace movie
Film Comments Updated: Jun 10, 2013 5:12pm1. Not much Las Vegas iconography in Behind the Candelabra — Steven Soderbergh’s cinematic adaptation of the tell-all book by Scott Thorson (played here by Matt Damon), who had a five-year...
CineList, 5.23.13
Film Comments May 22, 2013 4:28pmNew ReleasesAt Any Price (R, 105 mins) Dad (Dennis Quaid) wants son (Zac Efron) to continue the family’s farming enterprise. Son would rather be a race car driver, but that may be a pipe dream if a...
Review: The Wolfpack returns to Caesars for a final — and almost franchise-redeeming — ‘Hangover’
Film Comments Updated: May 29, 2013 3:19pmWell, at least it’s over. And, for what it’s worth, The Hangover Part III is a more entertaining film than its immediate predecessor. But the original set the bar so high and was so unexpected,...
