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By Roger Ebert “Men in Black 3” comes 15 years after the entertaining original and 10 years after the sequel laid an egg, and the surprise is, it’s better than the first one. Given the passage of time, the entire concept may be new to some audience members, but it still does service: There is [...]
(AP) – “The Avengers” has extended its box-office superpowers with a record $207.4 million opening weekend domestically, an even bigger start than originally projected. Final figures from distributor Disney on Monday put the film’s debut $7.1 million higher than the studio had estimated a day earlier. With a superstar cast, great reviews and glowing word [...]
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Thousand reggae fans crowded aKingston park late Thursday to watch a screening of a documentary about Bob Marley, the charismatic icon of reggae music who brought the Jamaican musical genre to every corner of the globe. “Marley,” which will be released worldwide on Friday, premiered in his Caribbean homeland to high praise from Jamaicans [...]
BY ROGER EBERT Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature. The idea that a book can advise a woman how to capture a man is touchingly naive. Books advising men how to capture a woman are far less common, perhaps because few men are willing [...]
LA Times – Codeblack Entertainment predicted last week that its “Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day” would open to strong returns in a limited national release. But the African American drama starring Blair Underwood, Sharon Leal and Nicole Beharie performed even better than its makers expected. Playing in 102 theaters, “Woman Thou Art [...]
By Roger Ebert Like many science-fiction stories, “The Hunger Games” portrays a future that we’re invited to read as a parable for the present. After the existing nations of North America are destroyed by catastrophe, a civilization named Panem rises from the ruins. It’s ruled by a vast, wealthy Capitol inspired by the covers of [...]
By Roger Ebert Jack is a motor mouth showboat who lives with his wife Caroline (Kerry Washington) and their son in a vast glass-walled bachelor’s pad. I guess she’s his wife. They have the same last name in the movie’s credits, although at one point she indicates they aren’t married. It doesn’t make the slightest [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax” raked in all kinds of green, earning $70.7 million in its first weekend to score the biggest box-office debut of the year by far. The 3-D animated family film from Universal Pictures, featuring the voices of Danny DeVito, Zac Efron and Taylor Swift, is based on Seuss’ [...]
By Roger Ebert There have been football teams for 110 years in the history of Manassas High School in North Memphis, Tenn. The school has never played in a single playoff game. At the beginning of the 2009 season, coach Bill Courtney wonders aloud if the school may not have the worst football program in [...]
(Reuters) – “Good Deeds” is Tyler Perry’s 12th movie but it marks the first time the actor and director is the central character in a film not based on Madea, the foul-mouthed grandmother he is best known for playing on stage and the big screen. Although Perry, 42, is far from a critics’ darling, he [...]
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