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(Update: I see I somehow managed to post this review twice, more recently here. I’ll leave both in place to avoid possible broken links.) This is the first of a series of movies adapted from a popular trilogy of young … Continue reading
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(Update: I see I managed to post this review twice. I’ll leave both in place to avoid possible broken links. The later version is here, but except for possible typos I don’t think there are any differences.) James Franco plays … Continue reading
(Update: I see I managed to post this review twice. I’ll leave both in place to avoid broken links. The other version is here, but with the possible exception typos I don’t think there are any differences.) Ben Affleck and … Continue reading
(Update: I see I managed to post this review twice several months apart with slight differences. I’ll leave both in place to avoid possible broken links. The later version is here.) This is a fun space opera with a nice … Continue reading
(Update: I somehow managed to post this review twice in slightly different form. The later version, with an additional clip of an interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson about the science in the film, can be found here, but I’m leaving … Continue reading
This film has a lot in common with Pretty in Pink (reviewed here), coming from the same writer (John Hughes) and director (Howard Deutch) and some similar themes. Mary Stuart Masterson is brilliant in a role vaguely similar to Jon … Continue reading
Since enjoying 16 Candles, a very funny mid-80s teen romantic comedy written and directed by John Hughes and starring Molly Ringwald, I’d been meaning to watch this film, also written by Hughes and starring Ringwald, though directed by Howard Deutch … Continue reading
This film tells (if I’m counting right) six different stories set at six different points in time, one in the present, three in the past, and two in the future. (Come to think of it, the last story is set … Continue reading
Charlie Chan has been hired by a French scientific organization to investigate sales to the collectors market of artifacts from a tomb whose excavations they had funded, and in the course of things he discovers that the body of a … Continue reading
While it was directed by Christopher Nolan, who previously did the Dark Knight series of Batman films, this is basically what you’d get if J.J. Abrams made a Superman movie, complete with something that resembles the planet-wrecking gizmo in the … Continue reading