-CNN Getting cast to star alongside Tom Cruise in an action franchise? That’s not a “Mission: Impossible” for Paula Patton. The 34-year-old new mom – who welcomed her first child with husband Robin Thicke in April – has landed the lead female role in “M: I,” Deadline.com reports. Although this film has been referred to [...]
A crackling crime drama assembled from a scrap heap of hoary cliches, “Takers” proves that everything old can sometimes really be new again. Everything in this exciting movie has been borrowed from other pictures, from the suave, resourceful bank robbers who execute perfect crimes to the pair of dogged police officers hellbent on nabbing them. [...]
By RICK BENTLEY “Lottery Ticket” isn’t the mega ball of outrageous comedy, but it’s still a winner because of the way director Erik White blends comic lunacy with sweet sentimentality. Kevin (Bow Wow), a young man living with his grandmother in the projects, is suddenly $370 million richer when he wins a nationwide lottery. His [...]
By David Germain LOS ANGELES – Sylvester Stallone has proven that he’s not quite expendable yet at the box office. Stallone and his pumped-up pals lifted Lionsgate’s 1980s-style action romp “The Expendables” to a No. 1 debut with $35 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. While the macho “Expendables” lured male audiences, Julia Roberts delivered [...]
By Betsy Sharkey There is something so richly subversive, so vicariously appealing about turning accountants into action heroes who aim their big guns at Wall Street Ponzi schemers that the idea alone makes the new buddy-cop comedy, “The Other Guys,” clever and funny from the first frame. Fortunately, many other clever and funny frames follow. [...]
LOS ANGELES -AP– Leonardo DiCaprio’s mind-bending thriller “Inception” continued to entrance moviegoers, again taking the No. 1 spot at the box office in its third weekend with $27.4 million. Steve Carell’s farce “Dinner For Schmucks” debuted in the No. 2 position with an appetizing $23.5 million, while Zac Efron’s drama “Charlie St. Cloud” and the [...]
By Richard Corliss In his first executive meeting at the Beverly Hills equity firm where he works, junior analyst Tim (Paul Rudd) sizes up the others sitting at the long table, and they toss quick knives back. They glance at the new boy with a practiced contempt — as if they’d majored in Sneering at [...]
BY ROGER EBERT “Salt” is a damn fine thriller. It does all the things I can’t stand in bad movies, and does them in a good one. It’s like a rebuke to all the lousy action movie directors who’ve been banging pots and pans together in our skulls. It winds your clock tight and the [...]
BY ROGER EBERT It’s said that Christopher Nolan spent ten years writing his screenplay for “Inception.” That must have involved prodigious concentration, like playing blindfold chess while walking a tight-wire. The film’s hero tests a young architect by challenging her to create a maze, and Nolan tests us with his own dazzling maze. We have [...]
By Christy Lemire LOS ANGELES – “Despicable Me” wasn’t such a bad guy after all, it seems, opening at the top of the box office with an estimated $60.1 million. The first 3-D animated movie from Universal Pictures stars Steve Carell as the voice of Gru, a bumbling villain with plans to steal the moon [...]
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