A neo-funk/electronica cover of the disco era classic "Kung Fu Fighting" performed by Gnarls Barkley member CeeLo Green and actor/rocker Jack Black is the first single from the original motion picture soundtrack for Kung Fu Panda. Read more »
Celebrated singer, actor, and humanitarian Usher Raymond, IV announced a new partnership with his hometown WNBA team the Atlanta Dream and New Look. Read more »
Gus Van Sant’s Paranoid Park isn’t so much of a film as it is a disjointed and misguided poem to wasted youth. A narrative hat is more of a series of longing gazes at young boys floating on their skateboards and shifting their dopey eyes to the Heavens as they wonder of their cruelties and confusion of their life. The fact that a murder plot finds itself in between Park’s whimsically-edited montages and tragically-ironic musical selections seems more like a burden than something that motivates the characters. While filmmakers should be commended for using non-traditional techniques and styles, Van Sant comes off more as an ADD-riddled hipster who wants the audience to adopt his crush on his subject characters. Read more »
Good comic book movies, like the comic books from which they have their genesis, understand their audience needs to relate to the fantastical and outrageous worlds and characters. Humanistic flaws and real-world dilemmas must plague anyone with superhero powers since, unlike these characters, we cannot relate to the problems of other-worldly strength and special powers. Read more »
Summer begins this weekend as far as Hollywood is concerned with Iron Man, the year's first big action blockbuster. If that sound too testosterone-intense, or just too goofy, then check out the equally-goofy Made of Honor.Read more »
The Counterfeiters – the first Austrian film to even win Best Foreign Film at the Oscars – owes quite a bit to Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List. Like that film, this 2007 film focuses on a shifty German socialite named Salomon Sorowitsch (Karl Markovics). The difference is that Salomon is Jewish and his stock-in-trade is falsifying currency. And while List focused on larger issues of Holocaust travesty, this film is more specific in capturing a somewhat-unknown but true element of the Nazi’s strategy. At their heart, both are about men who overcome their selfishness to understand the full value of human worth. Read more »
I've been putting quite a bit of thought to this over the past week (well, I don't have much of a life) and I wondered what Universal was thinking about when they added a trailer for Rogue Pictures' (a horror-film shoot-off of Universal) The Strangers before Baby Mama. Read more »
Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay does not live up to its 2004 predecessor. Not even close. Without seeing the 2004 film where the two over-achieving stoners make a trip to White Castle, this may sound like an underwhelming statement. But director Danny Leiner had a lot more on his mind than making a slacker road flick littered with hamburger slider. Underneath the gags, there was a really sharp analysis of the modern immigration plight. Read more »
In these days where technology and societal norms challenge the traditional notion of child-rearing and motherhood, the arrival of Baby Mama would suggest a great potential for a modern comedy. With the presence of leads of super-hot Tina Fey and Amy Poehler (who were just featured in a Vanity Fair cover story on great female comediennes), that potential could be fully fleshed out for a rollicking good time. Read more »
( Release: May. 9, 2008 Rated: R - for disturbing strong sexual content, language and some drug use - involving teens Avg. Score: 1.25/5 Details | Trailers | Photos | Reviews
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Not trashy enough considering the premise.
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Based on a true story, three women (Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah, Katie Holmes) conspire to steal money that's about to be destroyed from the Federal Reserve.
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In 1935, Mel Tolson (Denzel Washington) is a professor at Wiley College Texas who wants to encourage his students to have big dreams. So, he forms and coaches a local debating team that aggressively fights for the chance to engage Harvard's championship team in a match.
( Released: 05/13/2008 Rated: R - for some prolonged sequences of strong gruesome violence, and language Avg. Score: 3/5
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Jennifer Marsh (Diane Lane) is a single mom and an investigator for the FBI's Internet Crimes division. When she's called upon to solve the agency's most grisly case ever — that of a serial killer who slowly murders his victims based on the number of visitors to a website —, little does she suspect that she has a personal connection with the psycho. Now she must find out what secret connection she shares with the madman before he can kill his next victim.
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This documentary tells a daring tale of love and romance set in a Nazi concentration camp. In Holland in 1943, Jack Polak was stuck in a loveless marriage and became smitten by the beautiful Ina Soep, the daughter of a wealthy diamond magnate. Soon, all three of them were whisked to a concentration camp and forced to live in the same barracks. Although Jack's wife was just as unhappy in her marriage as he was, she forbid him to see Ina. So, the two sustained their romance through secret love letters written to each other.
( Released: 05/13/2008 Rated: R - for some sexuality, nudity and a brief disturbing image Avg. Score: 2.19/5
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In the years before World War II, Dominic Matei (Tim Roth) is a professor who finds he is able to live his life all over again. Pursued by the Nazis for his secret, Matei searches for shelter all over Europe.
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