An entertaining and refreshingly adult thriller that mostly overcomes the weaknesses of its source material with plenty of style and intelligence and a raft of excellent performances.
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The first trailer for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time looks about as bad as I expected
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Want to see another Shutter Island trailer? I haven’t watched the other ones and I’m not watching this one, but don’t let that stop you. I’m told the second trailer was the same as the first. Had I watched either one, I might’ve known this.
Based on the novel by Dennis Lehane, Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island [...]
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I managed to avoid the first trailer for Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island and I’m not about to break down and watch this one. I have no idea how it’s different than the first one, but enjoy.
In case you’ve forgotten, the film based on Dennis Lehane’s novel stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams, [...]
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Penélope Cruz in Elegy
Based on Philip Roth’s novel The Dying Animal, Isabel Coixet’s romantic drama Elegy stars Ben Kingsley as David Kepesh, a college literature professor who spent the sexual revolution of the ’60s married. Eventually abandoning his wife and son, he spent the ensuing years making up for lost time, jumping from one woman [...]
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Kimberly Rivers Roberts and Scott Roberts in Trouble the Water
Ouch. It looks like summer is over but the fall movie season still hasn’t begun. The wide releases look almost completely forgettable so, once again, I’ll dig into the slightly more promising limited releases first.
Trouble the Water. Coming from the producers of Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for [...]
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Penélope Cruz and Ben Kingsley in Elegy
Hey it’s Monday and time for another Watercooler. Before we get to the movies, I wanted to point out that I’m experimenting with a Sunday slot for the Movies You May Have Missed column for Netflix-centric reasons explained in the column itself. Check it out below if you’d like.
Meanwhile, [...]
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This week’s Forecast starts off with a film that has already been released. Why? Because it’s one of the best movies of the year so far and it’s finally expanding from the two theaters in which it opened. If you’re wondering when I’m going to shut up about Man on Wire, the answer is: don’t [...]
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