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MOVIES: Third time not the charm for ‘Punisher’

There's a serious film to be made about the Punisher, Marvel Comics' avenging angel...Then there's the Punisher film that ends with a half-wit Keystone Kop muttering, "Oh ..., now I've got brains splattered all over me." Guess which one "Punisher: War Zone" is.

December 5, 2008

MOVIES: Return of a child soldier

"War Child" is a moving documentary about the tribulations faced by Emmanuel Jal, a child-soldier-turned-rapper who returns to his war-torn homeland years after fleeing the civil war that plagued his country. Though a little convoluted, "War Child" tells a story Western audiences have mostly ignored.

December 5, 2008

MOVIES: Warm, funny ‘Christmases’

"Four Christmases" could have easily devolved into a loosely linked series of moderately funny family-centered skits, but the family squabbles and relationships in these vignettes are handled with heart and a careful touch, and the movie is paced quickly enough to keep the audience laughing without too many breaks.

November 28, 2008

On the road again … Frank the driver is back

The "Transporter" series is the cinematic equivalent of cotton candy: a quick sugar rush that melts in your mouth and is forgotten five minutes later. Sure, there might be some slight rot (your teeth with the cotton; your brain with the movie), but no lasting harm is done.

November 28, 2008

Sean Penn overacts as gay leader in ‘Milk’

"Milk" was supposed to be a triumphant capstone to the gay rights movement's victories of recent years. Planned to be released just weeks after the largest state in the union ratified the right to gay marriage by popular vote, Gus Van Sant's opus about the slain gay rights leader was to have shown us just how far we've come in the past 40 years.

November 26, 2008

BEYOND: Boyle’s ‘Slumdog’ has buzz

A casual filmgoer would be forgiven for not immediately recognizing the title "Slumdog Millionaire" on the box-office marquee despite the Oscar buzz surrounding it; the studio has done little to no marketing of the picture.

November 14, 2008

MOVIES: Rushed Bond sequel

You'd do well to rewatch "Casino Royale" before seeing "Quantum of Solace," Daniel Craig's second turn as James Bond, because the sequel offers little in the way of recap.

November 14, 2008

‘Slumdog’ a prize worth savoring

Danny Boyle is the most versatile director working today. In the past decade or so, he has helmed "Trainspotting," "28 Days Later" and "Sunshine," three films most critics would label as among the best of their genres (the drug flick, the zombie flick and the intellectual science-fiction flick, respectively).

November 12, 2008

MOVIES: A twist on the vampire flick

"Let the Right One In" is a fantastic picture - a moody, original take on the vampire film that anyone interested in vampire films or relationship films will enjoy.

November 7, 2008

MOVIES: Kevin Smith’s latest pushes boundaries

Writer-director Kevin Smith's latest comedy, "Zack and Miri Make a Porno," takes the standard romantic comedy and raunches it up without really altering any romcom cliches, with uneven - although not altogether unentertaining - effects.

October 31, 2008

EDGE: Foreign fright flicks better

Mainstream American horror is in a moribund state. It's not quite as dead as a promiscuous teenager at Camp Crystal Lake, but it's headed in that direction.

October 31, 2008

MOVIE REVIEW: The art of the deal

There comes a moment in "What Just Happened?" when you realize that what you're seeing is not really a comedy but a tragedy, a tale of a man beaten down by life more than he (probably) deserves. But until you get there, the movie's a fun ride.

October 17, 2008

Hollywood stays behind scenes in race

The entertainment industry is usually a lightning rod when presidential contests roll around. But celebrities are mostly keeping their distance from this one, afraid of again tilting the outcome in the GOP's favor.

October 15, 2008

EDGE: Partisanship at the theaters

Hollywood can be an awful place for conservatives, personally as well as professionally. Andrew Breitbart has thoroughly documented its closed-mindedness and hostility to conservatives in general and Republicans in particular in these pages.

October 10, 2008