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Movie talk:
Pick of the Week:
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Star Trek Into Darkness (PG-13)
Genre: Science Fiction
Director: J.J. Abrams (Star Trek)
Starring: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Benedict Cumberbatch, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg
The Story: Kirk and the rest of the Enterprise crew of the are sent on a mission to deal with a terrorist out to destroy Starfleet. The Lowdown: The plotting gets clunky and the action could be handled more effectively, but the characters — improved from the first film — keep this Star Trek entry mostly worth watching.
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Java Heat (R)
Genre: Action
Director: Conor Allyn
Starring: Kellan Lutz, Mickey Rourke, Ario Bayu, Frans Tumbuan
The Story: A young American of dubious truth joins forces with a Muslim police detective to take down a crime lord and the terrorists he's helping. The Lowdown: An impossibly convoluted story, a pair of likable leads, a nasty villain and some solid action scenes make this OK, but ultimately not terrific. On its own aims, it's not bad.
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Godzilla Raids Again (NR)
Genre: Sci Fi
Director: Motoyoshi Oda
Starring: Hiroshi Koizumi, Setsuko Wakayama, Minoru Chiaki, Takashi Shimura
In Brief: It's the first Godzilla sequel and, despite the fact that it was rushed to cash in on the original film so that it was in theaters within four months of Godzilla, it's still a reasonably good entry. It's also the last of the series that can be taken seriously — at least sort of seriously. As far as Japanese giant monster pictures are concerned, Godzilla Raids Again is something of an essential. -
House of Good and Evil (NR)
Genre: Psychological Horror
Director: David Mun
Starring: Rachel Marie Lewis, Christian Oliver, Marietta March, Jordan Rhodes
In Brief: This year's feature film winner of the Twin Rivers Media Festival marks the first time a horror movie has taken the prize. But David Mun's House of Good and Evil isn't your typical horror film. Rather, this is psychological horror about a couple trying to get their lives — and marriage — back on track in the wake of a tragedy by moving into an isolated old house in the country. What happens there isn't at all what they expect. Not everything in the films works — it goes on too long and it cheats a bit — but it's a well-acted, good-looking film that plays up atmosphere more than shocks. -
The Ladykillers (R)
Genre: Comedy
Director: Joel and Ethan Coen
Starring: Tom Hanks, Irma P. Hall, J.K. Simmons, Marlon Wayans, Tzi Ma
b>In Brief: The Coen Brothers' much misunderstood reimagining of the 1955 Ealing Studios Comedy of the same name finds Tom Hanks taking on the role originated by Alec Guinness — and making it his own. That's much the same thing the Coens did with the film — adhering to the basics of the story about a group of not-very-adept criminals using the home of an unsuspecting little old lady as their base of operations, while creating something completely fresh and original. It deserves another chance. -
That's Entertainment (G)
Genre: Compilation Documentary
Director: Jack Haley, Jr.
Starring: Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, Liza Minnelli, Debbie Reynolds
In Brief: Riding in on the last of the late 1960s/early 1970s nostalgia wave, That's Entertainment positioned itself as a documentary about the Hollywood musical. In truth, it was a two-hour commercial for MGM that presented one seriously skewed version of film history. That's not to say the film doesn't include some pretty impressive (and more than a few clunker) musical numbers — all culled from the MGM library — but it presents a very small fragment of the movie musical genre as if it was the whole story. -
Walk Don't Run (NR)
Genre: Comedy
Director: Charles Walters (High Society)
Starring: Cary Grant, Samantha Eggar, Jim Hutton, John Standing, Miiko Taka
In Brief: Pack Memorial Library concludes its Cary Grant series with — appropriately enough — Grant's last film, Walk Don't Run. It's an agreeable enough remake of George Stevens' 1943 comedy The More the Merrier — moved from crowded wartime Washington to crowded Tokyo during the 1964 summer Olympics. The problem with it — from a box office standpoint — was that audiences wanted Cary Grant as a leading man, and what they got was Grant as a middle-aged businessman playing matchmaker for Jim Hutton and Samantha Eggar. It just wasn't a popular idea, though it plays better now as a lesser tier Grant picture.
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Only slightly off-topic, I ran into a fun series of videos on Youtube recently. It's "Everything That Is Wrong With (fill in the movie title) in (blank) minutes or less."…
Commented on: Star Trek Into Darkness
I think I'll stay out of this.
Commented on: Java Heat
Even if you don't buy that, Cumberbatch's drilling stare and fierce presence made up for any deficits and cemented him as the driven superhuman/dictator that Khan was meant to be.…
Commented on: Star Trek Into Darkness
Don't let me stop you!
Commented on: The Great Gatsby
Find your critic? Ha! It's on RT. It might have had some value a long time ago, but like anything on a commercial site it had to be tweaked until…
Commented on: Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: Late Night Musings on Critics and Review Aggregation
I am so angry at the Facebook right now. I had to keep fighting the goddamn "Find Your Critic" thing for wanting to post my ratings to Farcebook.
Commented on: Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: Late Night Musings on Critics and Review Aggregation
Find your critic? Ha! It's on RT. It might have had some value a long time ago, but like anything on a commercial site it had to be tweaked until…
Commented on: Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: Late Night Musings on Critics and Review Aggregation
I am so angry at the Facebook right now.
Commented on: Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: Late Night Musings on Critics and Review Aggregation
Just last night Frazier's book came up on I was admonished for putting it down half-read 12 years ago. They nearly had me convinced that I needed to pick it…
Commented on: The Great Gatsby
Probably, but it's also more likely that the critics have read it. Then again, it'd be hard not to improve on the book Cold Mountain. (I admit I lost patience…
Commented on: The Great Gatsby
They've changed it since I took it. Last time I was my only match. Now I get a list of perplexing proportions, since they're based on varying numbers of reviews…
Commented on: Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: Late Night Musings on Critics and Review Aggregation
Well, you ought to be awfully awfully embarassed.
Commented on: Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: Late Night Musings on Critics and Review Aggregation
Gee, thanks.
Commented on: Cranky Hanke's Weekly Reeler May 22-28: Fast and Epic Hangover
"I've yet to see the adaptation of anything that didn't piss somebody off." But a canonical work like "Gatsby" will surely draw mountains more ire than say "Cold Mountain" or…
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I just took this 'Find Your Critic' test and wound up with these as my best matches. In order, from most compatible: Nathaniel Rogers / CineScene.com Leonard Maltin / indieWIRE…
Commented on: Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: Late Night Musings on Critics and Review Aggregation
all it did was suggest that I read me. It obviously works then.
Commented on: Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: Late Night Musings on Critics and Review Aggregation
But the thing is, unless you've found a reviewer whose taste chimes perfectly with your own (which I certainly haven't) Neither have I, so if you find one, let me…
Commented on: Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: Late Night Musings on Critics and Review Aggregation
Happy Moog Day Ken!
Commented on: Cranky Hanke's Weekly Reeler May 22-28: Fast and Epic Hangover
Or maybe my ears need a break. Ear attention disorder. There was this game of course of how much of a musical education I needed by naming the bands on…
Commented on: The Great Gatsby
Sounds like an attention span problem Or maybe my ears need a break. In the first place, I don't know at this point what was on the earlier ones. In…
Commented on: The Great Gatsby
Well, George RR Martin liked it That man needs to stop watching movies, and finish his series, no matter how disappointing it will turn out.
Commented on: The Great Gatsby
I am very seldom able to get to movies in the theater, so reviews are important to me. But the thing is, unless you've found a reviewer whose taste chimes…
Commented on: Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: Late Night Musings on Critics and Review Aggregation
It is the internet, where anybody can say anything. Doesn't make them right. I'm not saying it makes them right -- far from it. I'm saying it seems to be…
Commented on: Cranky Hanke's Screening Room: Late Night Musings on Critics and Review Aggregation
Yes, I know there are all sorts of claims of how it "ruins" the book.." Told ya, told ya, told ya......!! It's not like I didn't expect it. I've yet…
Commented on: The Great Gatsby
More like an aversion to lengthy mix CDs. The sweet spot is around ten to fourteen songs around the fifty minute mark, But if you're going to fill the whole…
Commented on: The Great Gatsby
Heavens. Is the most overrated Director of all time rearing his ugly head again? You shut your mouth.
Commented on: Java Heat
"Yes, I know there are all sorts of claims of how it "ruins" the book.." Told ya, told ya, told ya......!! But I never read the damn thing, so I…
Commented on: The Great Gatsby
Considering the quality of most of Sonnenfeld's movies, this strikes me as a good thing.
Commented on: The Ladykillers
"First Contact twice was a considerably better experience than watching Nemesis or... Insurrection?.. once." I was pleasantly surprised that "First Contact" survived Jonathan Frakes' direction. As we witnessed in "Insurrection",…
Commented on: Star Trek Into Darkness
Ken are you talking about Francis Ha? I might be talking about Frances Ha.
Commented on: Cranky Hanke's Weekly Reeler May 22-28: Fast and Epic Hangover
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