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Battleship

Dragonetta — Thu, 17 May 2012 22:20:03 +0000

Confession I’m usually in Peter Berg’s corner Friday Night Lights The Kingdom and Hancock all show a director with a wild streak Hollywood can’t totally tame But Battleship based on Hasbro’s naval-combat game shows Berg trying to transform into demon box-office machine Michael Bay Can you aim lower? Battleship is…

What To Expect When You’re Expecting

Dragonetta — Thu, 17 May 2012 22:20:03 +0000

What’s in the Hollywood water supply? First director Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights) who should know better clones himself as Michael Bay with Battleship Now Kirk Jones (Waking Ned Devine) does a Freaky Friday body switch becoming director Garry Marshall with the still-born What To Expect When You’re Expecting an…

The Dictator

Dragonetta — Thu, 17 May 2012 00:20:02 +0000

Say it isn’t so Is Sacha Baron Cohen aka Ali G Borat and Bruno actually starring in a movie with a semi-coherent plot? Seems like it There’s not a mock-doc improvised caught-on-the-fly “gotcha!” moment in all of The Dictator Baron Cohen wrote the linear script with Alec Berg David Mandel…

Dark Shadows

Dragonetta — Thu, 10 May 2012 21:40:02 +0000

If you’re not interested in what Johnny Depp and director Tim Burton are cooking up you’re missing out on one of the best go-your-own-way teams in screen history Dark Shadows their eighth collaboration to date doesn’t occupy the rarefied air of Ed Wood Edward Scissorhands and Sweeney Todd It’s too…

Under African Skies

Dragonetta — Thu, 10 May 2012 21:40:01 +0000

By all means check out Joe Berlinger’s unmissable Under African Skies a documentary that shows how Paul Simon defied a UN cultural boycott to work in South Africa during apartheid to record his landmark Graceland album in 1985 Simon’s virtuosity intensified by a 2011 reunion concert with the South African…

A Little Bit of Heaven

Dragonetta — Fri, 04 May 2012 20:00:02 +0000

Kate Hudson whose career has been sputtering on life support for years plays a terminal patient in this droolingly stupid weepieUseful tip The movie dies way quicker than she does

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Dragonetta — Thu, 03 May 2012 22:00:02 +0000

The MTV Cribs peeps are probably not clamoring to see this tale of British retirees seeking a retirement haven in India But screw them if they don’t give a damn about watching Brit acting royalty nailing every nuance in this comedy laced with genuine emotion Adapted by Ol Parker from…

The Avengers

Dragonetta — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:40:01 +0000

Let me sprint right to the point The Avengers has it all And then some Six superheroes for the price of one ticket Iron Man Thor Captain America Hawkeye Black Widow and the Hulk It’s also the blockbuster I saw in my head when I imagined a movie that brought…

Bernie

Dragonetta — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:00:03 +0000

Texas-born Richard Linklater is one of those rare filmmakers whose work never fails to fascinate Unconvinced? Here’s a few titles Slacker Dazed and Confused Before Sunrise Before Sunset Waking Life School of Rock A Scanner Darkly Fast Food Nation Me and Orson Welles Now let’s get on with his latest…

The Five-Year Engagement

Dragonetta — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:00:03 +0000

IMAO (that’s “In My Arrogant Opinion”) actor-writer Jason Segel and director-writer Nicholas Stoller crafted a sublime romantic soufflé in 2008′s Forgetting Sarah Marshall That dream partnership gets dinged a bit in the frustratingly uneven The Five-Year Engagement which drags and sags at 124 minutes Luckily the movie never runs on…