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Rating 3.50 out of 5
[?]Written by Black Entertainment USA
Ok, so Tiger Woods has a couple of girlfriends on the side. NO shock, so do most men with his kind of fame and wealth. If he were a rockstar or actor no one would be surprised. But this is a family matter for him, so I [...]
Hugh Jackman ain’t Lee Marvin - Real Steel
Rating 4.00 out of 5
[?]Written by Black Entertainment USA
Let’s say that you are a Hollywood executive. So between meetings deciding where you can eat dinner and get the most peer attention, and where to drink to get the most peer attention, you have to figure out a movie to greenlight for Hugh Jackman to be [...]
Movie Preview: Prince of Persia Sands of Time
Rating 4.00 out of 5
[?]Written by Black Entertainment USA
Well after being rumored and discussed by gamers for years, Prince of Persia has finally made the conversion to the big screen - no gaming system required. Yes another in the growing line of video game to movie conversions is coming for the 2010 movie season.
What we [...]
Special effects devour the world
Rating 3.00 out of 5
[?]Submitted by Denerstein Unleashed
John Cusack carries the weight of a crumbling world.
It’s getting more difficult to enjoy the end of the world — at least at the movies. I really wanted to like 2012, the latest orgy of destruction from director Roland Emmerich (The Day After Tomorrow and Independence Day). I’m [...]
‘Damned United’ is in no way cursed
Rating 3.00 out of 5
[?]Submitted by Denerstein Unleashed
Michael Sheen coaches with style in The Damned United.
Years ago, I read a story about golf. The only reason I remember this particular article is that I eventually found myself at the end of it, a surprise because my interest in golf is roughly the same as my [...]
Movie Preview: 2012
Rating 4.00 out of 5
[?]Written by Black Entertainment USA
Well it’s almost a year to the day that I mentioned 2012, and one thing is certain. The hype surrounding that date, and likely this movie, is only growing with time.
There wasn’t a lot known in 2008 about this film - other than it would be the [...]
Movie Preview: Armored
Rating 4.00 out of 5
[?]Written by Black Entertainment USA
So what happens when you have several old actors, a couple that never made it big time, and a few newbies thrown in for the hell of it? Well you could make a film that has been done a dozen times before.
Armored is a film we all [...]
There’s no messing with Bronson
Rating 3.00 out of 5
[?]Submitted by Denerstein Unleashed
Tom Hardy as Bronson, a performance you won’t soon forget.
Bronson is not the story of Charles Bronson, the tough guy actor who starred in Death Wish and who died in 2003. No, Bronson is a souped-up portrait of a man who acquired the reputation of being the most [...]
Michael Jackson in concert — almost
Rating 3.00 out of 5
[?]Submitted by Denerstein Unleashed
Judging by his reputation, Michael Jackson had many personalities. We got a glimpse of one of them when we learned about Jackson’s personal Xanadu, Neverland Ranch. We saw another when Jackson was forced to drag himself into a Los Angeles courtroom as the cable TV cameras rolled. Over [...]
A hairy funny movie with Chris Rock
Rating 3.00 out of 5
[?]Submitted by Denerstein Unleashed
Chris Rock watches as a girl gets “good ” hair.
It’s hardly a secret that women will go to great lengths and incur great debt in their quest for beauty. In the case of many black women — or so we’re reminded in Chris Rock’s funny and insightful Good [...]
Movie Preview: Not Evil Just Wrong
Rating 4.00 out of 5
[?]Written by Black Entertainment USA
Remember when a regular guy stepped up and took on the mega-corporations in a movie. There was no end to coverage in the media and support for the film created a career for Michael Moore. Since that time he has jumped up and down on the Conservatives [...]
Suffering we’ll never understand
Rating 3.00 out of 5
[?]Submitted by Denerstein Unleashed
Sometimes if feels as if there’s just no solace.
If we take A Serious Man as a guide, we can speculate that Joel and Ethan Coen view the universe in one of several ways: It is either godless, presided over by a deity who’s entirely indifferent to the plight [...]
Movie Review: Surrogates
Rating 4.00 out of 5
[?]Written by Black Entertainment USA
Surrogates is the latest film to feature Bruce Willis. It’s an action sci-fi combination that plays on familiar themes, and slips in a bit ot philosophy/politics when you aren’t looking.
Starting with the plot, it does have one. It’s not hard to follow and it is set-up well. [...]
From the West Bank to White Castle
Rating 3.00 out of 5
[?]Submitted by Denerstein Unleashed
Nisareen Faour and Hiam Abbass play sisters in Amreeka.I love movies about the changing face of the U.S. I’m particularly partial to stories about immigrants who live in identity-challenging twilight zones; they’re not fully integrated into American society, and they may no longer fit into their countries of [...]
Vaughn, Favreau on vacation from laughter
Rating 3.00 out of 5
[?]Submitted by Denerstein Unleashed
Not folks with whom I’d want to be stranded on an island.
Couples Retreat seems to have been designed to send couples out of the theater holding hands, reassured that it’s possible to rediscover the spark in marriages grown stale. I’m not knocking the message, but I do take [...]
The worst films since 2000
Rating 4.00 out of 5
[?]Written by Black Entertainment USA
Having watched Stargate Universe, and learning of the upcoming V revisioned television series, I natually started to think about the worst that Hollywood and the entertainment industry has provided viewers. The list I could imagine is hardly small. And I wasn’t the only one to come up [...]
The lie that changed the world
Rating 3.00 out of 5
[?]Submitted by Denerstein Unleashed
Ricky Gervais and Jennifer Garner. One of them’s lying.
The Invention of Lying is the most sweetly subversive movie I’ve seen in a long time, a sad-sack comedy that satirizes the mindset that’s required for a literal belief in a deity that presides over the world with an inflexible [...]
Michael Moore weighs in on capitalism
Rating 3.00 out of 5
[?]Submitted by Denerstein Unleashed
Wall Street doesn’t seem to be listening as Michael Moore calls it to task.
Here’s a shocker. Michael Moore thinks capitalism is evil.
Look, can there be any remaining moviegoer who doesn’t know what to expect from Michael Moore, the provocateur and self-annointed spokesman for the left? Moore’s shtick has [...]
Coming of age while skating
Rating 3.00 out of 5
[?]Submitted by Denerstein Unleashed
Juliette Lewis and Ellen Page are rivals in Whip It.
Drew Barrymore makes her directorial debut with Whip It, a film about roller derby and a young woman’s (Juno’s Ellen Page) arduous journey of self-discovery. The combination doesn’t make for anything startling, but results in a colorfully entertaining movie [...]
Zombies eat humans! Result: Laughs
Rating 3.00 out of 5
[?]Submitted by Denerstein Unleashed
It takes firepower to survive a zombie attack.
This is the way the world ends, not with a bang or a whimper, but with zombies slaughtering all of humanity. Apologies to T.S. Eliot, but in contemplating catastrophe Eliot didn’t have the benefit of seeing Zombieland. He knew nothing of [...]
They love Paris: So do we
Rating 3.00 out of 5
[?]Submitted by Denerstein Unleashed
Juliette Binoche and Romain Duris in Paris.
Anyone who has been to Paris — and I’m lucky enough to be able to say I have — knows that the city has a special, almost ineffable allure. If one were going to design a city meant to appeal to the [...]
For this poet, romance didn’t include sex
Rating 3.00 out of 5
[?]Submitted by Denerstein Unleashed
Abbie Cornish and Ben Whishaw in Bright Star.
I’m plagued by many wishes. I wish, for example, that Jane Campion’s Bright Star didn’t begin to lag about three-quarters of the way through. I wish that the wonderful Australian actress Abbie Cornish, who plays the lover of poet John Keats [...]
Movie Preview: Vampire Girl Vs. Frankenstein Girl
Rating 4.00 out of 5
[?]Written by Black Entertainment USA
Sometimes you just run across a title that makes you say ‘What is that?’ Well that’s how I found Vampire Girl Vs. Frankenstein Girl.
This is not what you might be thinking. It’s a foreign film - Japanese. It’s filled with gore and the concept of PC has [...]
A comedy about price-fixing? It’s true
Rating 3.00 out of 5
[?]Submitted by Denerstein Unleashed
Matt Damon turns whistle blower in The Informant!Three cheers for The Informant!, a movie that defies expectation by denying us a rooting interest — unless it’s our wish that sanity might suddenly prevail in what director Steven Soderbergh presents as an intricate web of irresponsibility and corruption.
The lack [...]
Movie Preview: Surrogates
Rating 4.00 out of 5
[?]Written by Black Entertainment USA
What if you were to take the themes of WestWorld and The Matrix, add in a waldo (not the character) and some I Robot (the book not the substandard movie), what might you get? Well these are likely sources that helped to create Surrogates.
The concept is hardly [...]
