Monthly Archives: July 2008
DVD reviews: ‘Meet Bill,’ ‘Robot Chicken: Star Wars,’ ’21’
Meet Aaron Aaron Eckhart, Gotham’s City’s crusading new district attorney in “The Dark Knight,†shows a more vulnerable side in “Meet Bill,†an uneven comedy about getting your act together when life’s not working. Eckhart plays Bill, a melancholy, chocolate-scarfing, … Continue reading
“The Dark Knight”: A review
`Dark Knight’ draws winning hand with Joker There are not a lot of happy people in “The Dark Knight.’’ Or any, for that matter. Moments of joy are short-lived and muddied with uncertainty. Christopher Nolan paints this stunning sequel in … Continue reading
DVD reviews: “The Bank Job,” “Shutter,” “Penelope,” “College Road Trip”
Statham stars in successful “Bank Job” No, you haven’t seen so many robbery films that “The Bank Job†will seem like just another heist movie. It’s not. Out this week, the entertaining take on a real 1971 London robbery — … Continue reading
DVD reviews: ‘Stop-Loss,’ ‘The Ruins,’ ‘The X-Files: Revelations,’ ‘The Superhero Movie,’ ‘Hybrid,’ ‘The Mummy’ sets
Post-war is hell Ryan Phillippe shows some chops in “Stop-Loss,†an insightful drama co-starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a volatile Iraq war vet who wants to return to the front, but can’t due to his instability. In her first film since … Continue reading
The Gore-O-Meter is in ‘Ruins’
I can tolerate gruesomeness as well as the next guy, “guy” being the operative word since, with the exception of a colleague’s wife who revels in the “Saw” movies, appreciating gruesomeness is mostly a male thing. Maybe it goes back … Continue reading