Some films go out of their way to have their plots act as a metaphor for the action on screen. Case in point, the recent horror film Oculus, about an evil spirit that lives in a mirror, sports a story that puts together scenes from the past and present in such a way that they […]
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Lego joy
A scene from The Lego Movie. PHOTO COURTESY WARNER BROS. PICTURES With Hasbro having turned G.I. Joe and Transformers into successful franchises, I suppose it was only a matter of time before they built a feature around those little plastic blocks from Denmark that I cuss at every time I step on one with bare […]
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Cast not the only thing old in Last Vegas
Kevin Kline, Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas and Morgan Freeman in Last Vegas. PHOTO COURTESY CBS FILMS Don’t you just laugh and laugh when you see a senior citizen unable to operate a newfangled gadget like a trunk latch in a car? Or how about when they act hip but are really out of touch […]
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Perry gets Cross-ed up
While I appreciate Tyler Perry’s desire to branch out from his “Medea” films, which have put him on the map as far as the movie community is concerned, I couldn’t imagine a worse breakout effort than his current feature Alex Cross. Based loosely on the twelfth novel in James Patterson’s best selling series that revolves […]
