The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford One Legend Ends With A Bang And A Wimper In This Character-Driven Western Following hot on the horse tracks of 3:10 to Yuma, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford would seem to [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Oct 18, 2007 Read More “Hand over that there tiny bathtub
Michael Clayton Clooney Could Lead Cast To Oscar Gold In Murky Legal Drama After a long, hot summer filled with Transformers, pirates and superheroes, it may finally be time for some honest-to-goodness Academy Award contenders. Michael [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Oct 11, 2007 Read More “C’mon
Videonasty Scarecrows (1988) I gotta be honest here; I have never found scarecrows to be particularly creepy. Now don’t get me wrong, I can see how [...] Kurly Tlapoyawa \ Oct 11, 2007 Read More
The Heartbreak Kid Farrelly Brothers Dig Through Neil Simon’s Trash For Inspiration Ever wonder what would happen if you combined Neil Simon and The Farrelly Brothers? Yeah, me neither. Regardless, The Heartbreak Kid is a [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Oct 04, 2007 Read More “Relax
Lady Chatterley How Can The French Make An English Novel Less Sexy? Ah, highbrow sex. Oh, arthouse erotica. Where would we be without you? From 1967’s I Am Curious (Yellow) to 1972’s Last Tango in [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Oct 04, 2007 Read More “C’mon
The Game Plan Cute Kids And Quarterback Sacks Add Up To A Career Killer Wrestlin' thespian Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson could have had a career in film. He's a good-looking fellow. He's charismatic. There's no glaring indication [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Sep 27, 2007 Read More “ Eh? Eh? Chair. Butt. Funny stuff
In The Valley Of Elah Murder Mystery Muddies The Water Of Our Post-Iraq World Writer/director Paul Haggis follows up his Oscar-heavy string of assignments ( Crash, Million Dollar Baby, Letters from Iwo Jima ) with the quietly [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Sep 20, 2007 Read More “Gun
Tortilla Heaven Miraculous Masa Cooks Up A Corny Family Comedy The other shot-in-New-Mexico feature hitting theaters this weekend is a decidedly lower profile, lower budget affair than Paul Haggis’ In The Valley of [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Sep 20, 2007 Read More Well
The Brave One Anyone Up For A Sensitive New Age Drama About Bloody Vigilante Revenge? Mere weeks after Kevin Bacon did his best Charles Bronson imitation in the bloody urban revenge drama Death Sentence, Jodie Foster is recruited [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Sep 13, 2007 Read More “Go ahead
3:10 To Yuma Western Remake Heads Down Familiar Trail Based on a rip-snortin’ Elmore Leonard short story and originally shot in 1957 with Glenn Ford and Van Heflin, 3:10 to Yuma is [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Sep 06, 2007 Read More “We got our horses. We got out hats. We got our guns. ... Now that’s a posse!”
