What to Expect When You’re Expecting is a Valentine’s Day take on impending parenthood. Assorted couples cope with pregnancies, planned and unplanned, adoption and the epic change that is coming to their lives.
‘The Dictator’ falls between ‘Borat’ and ‘Bruno’ in quality
For most of its quick and extremely dirty running time, the new Sacha Baron Cohen offender The Dictator wages war with itself, crude nonsense up against crude nonsense that’s really funny. Then comes the golden ticket, the speech of speeches, the scene in which the fictional North African dictator General Admiral Haffaz Aladeen addresses a gathering in New York City, recanting his barbarous ways with a heartfelt confessional.
Smart, cheap ways to see more movies this summer
The summer movie season has officially started, and we can all agree on the best way to go about enjoying it: with George Clooney, in the private screening room of his fabulous villa on Lake Como in Italy.
‘Perfect Family’ provides modest pleasures
The Perfect Family is at best a moderately entertaining movie, one that tries to grapple with some big ideas about faith and doctrine, but which seems unwilling to make either its characters or its audience too uncomfortable.
Tim Burton and Johnny Depp sink teeth into ‘Dark Shadows’ parody
The years, gray hairs and wrinkles fade away from Johnny Depp and Michelle Pfeiffer, and the cobwebs are brushed off Dark Shadows in director Tim Burton’s campy and dark take on the late 1960s vampire soap opera. The cheesy and cheap but beloved TV program takes an affectionate ribbing in the film, which has more in common with That ’70s Show than its actual source.
Great cast can’t make ‘Marigold’ bloom
Movies draw into theaters in different ways. They may offer what look to be spectacular stunts. Or a big star. Or a reworking of an old concept. But regardless of the promise that gets us to buy a ticket, a movie still has to deliver on that promise once we are in our seats.
Rich Heldenfels: Let’s shed some light on ‘Dark Shadows’
The trailer for Dark Shadows promises comedic, bloody and anachronistic lunacy, with Johnny Depp as an 18th-century vampire discovering life in 1972, and Tim Burton at the directing helm.
Official: ‘Avengers 2’ is a go
As though anyone doubted it, Disney CEO Bob Iger announced on Tuesday that Avengers 2 is in the works. Disney, which owns Marvel Comics, already has the next Iron Man and Thor planned for 2013 and the sequel to Captain America coming in 2014. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Iger gave no indication on when…
‘Avengers’ vanquish box-office rival
LOS ANGELES: Hulk, smash. That’s what Captain America tells the Incredible Hulk to do in “The Avengers,” and that’s what the Marvel Comics superhero mash-up did at the box office, smashing the domestic revenue record with a $200.3 million debut. It’s by far the biggest opening ever, shooting past the previous record of $169.2 million…
Movie Scores: How the critics rated ‘Avengers,’ other new movies
Not that it matters, because it’s going to be a freakishly enormous success regardless of what critics say, but “Marvel’s The Avengers” is kicking off the summer movie season with excellent reviews.
Movie review: ‘Avengers’ is grand, old-school adventure
Marvel’s The Avengers is big, generally satisfying entertainment: a contemporary equivalent of one of those World War II movies where a scrappy, seemingly mismatched bunch becomes a team united in common cause.
Christian films find fans at the multiplex
By Cory Bennett Columbia News Service NEW YORK: Left Behind: The Movie is filled with drama: sudden disappearances, a vitriolic Russian Antichrist bent on global domination, and fireballs raining down during the Apocalypse. “The future as foretold by the Bible has come to pass,” a grandiose voice proclaims in the trailer. “Seeing is believing.” Its…
‘Avengers’ bad boy Tom Hiddleston wreaks wicked fun
LOS ANGELES: Everyone’s buzzing about the all-star team of do-gooders in The Avengers, from Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man to Chris Evans’ Captain America to Chris Hemsworth’s god of thunder, Thor.
‘Avengers’ shoots higher overseas with $185.1 million
LOS ANGELES: The Avengers isn’t playing yet on U.S. movie screens, but the superhero dream team already is a marvel at the worldwide box office.
‘Hunger Games,’ ‘Bridesmaids’ top MTV Movie Awards
Sandy Cohen AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES: This year’s MTV Movie Awards will be a showdown between a bevy of bridesmaids and a cast of killer kids. “Bridesmaids” and “The Hunger Games” top nominees at MTV’s annual film honors with eight nods apiece, including bids for best cast, breakthrough performance and movie of the year.…
