2009 will stand as a defining year for Sandra Bullock. First, she had one of her biggest comedic hits with June's The Proposal. Then, a few short months later, she delivered one of the most unconscionably awful films ever with...... more »
FilmCritic entries tagged "hancock"
In Mark Herman's adaptation of John Boyne's controversial children's bestseller offering a kid's-eye view of Holocaust, the young eight-year-old Bruno (Asa Butterfield) has the wide, blue-eyed innocence of the unprotected. Sheltered and half in a fantasy world, he runs through...... more »
In 1986, director Bertrand Tavernier turned his attention to... the growth of jazz in 1950s France, courtesy of black American expatriates? An odd choice for the director of Coup de torchon -- and featuring Martin Scorsese in a supporting role...... more »
It doesn't happen in many movies, but there's something I like to call the 'drop-off point' to describe when a movie turns bad very suddenly. The drop-off point of Hancock occurs at the beginning of the third act, and I...... more »
Sean Ellis is a fashion photographer turned movie director. Normally I'd say that would sink any chances that he'd be any good at all telling a narrative story, but I'm happy to report that's not the case. With his debut...... more »
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A soldier's life has been famously characterized by hours of boredom punctuated by moments of stark terror. Well, The Alamo manages to capture half that story. The Alamo isn't a patriotic, heart-swelling epic. It's a dull, rotten, dreary, excruciatingly-long miniseries...... more »
Here's a weird little item. Somewhere between a nighttime soap opera and an EC Horror comic book is Suspended Animation. Hollywood animator Tom Kempton (Alex McArthur) is accosted by some psychopathic women on a snowmobile trip, and given some Misery-style...... more »
The Rookie, as you may have figured out from its television advertising blitz, is the true story of Jimmy Morris, a 35-year-old high school science teacher and baseball coach that takes one last shot at his dream of playing in...... more »
The wise man once said 'You can't run through the gauntlet of PACs without getting somebody on their high horse.' Political Action Committees -- groups that watch Hollywood second only to watching Washington -- are so numerous in this jolly...... more »
Blink and you missed this little gem, the story of an aging, British Luddite writer named De'Ath (as in the title of the film, John Hurt) who goes to America to seek his newfound muse -- a B-movie actor named...... more »
