This week I went to see Letters to Juliet, starring Amanda Seyfried and Vanessa Redgrave. In the movie, Sophie (Seyfried), a fact checker for The New Yorker, departs on a pre-honeymoon to Verona with her fiancé, Victor (Gael Garcia Bernal). . . .
There are several ways to tell that summer is on its way. Indiana’s weather gets just a little stranger; students start looking more glassy-eyed than usual; and superhero movies start showing in the movie theaters. This month’s release of Iron . . .
When I walked into The Losers this week, I didn’t know anything about it. I didn’t even so much as know who stars in or that it’s based on a comic book series. It turns out that I was in for a more pleasant experience than I expected.
The . . .
While waiting outside the theater to see Date Night, my friends and I were accosted by a trio of young men who emphatically declared that Date Night was the worst movie ever and that we should see The Thomas Crown Affair instead. . . .
In its opening weekend, Diary of a Wimpy Kid outsold The Bounty Hunter, starring Jennifer Anniston and Gerard Butler. While The Bounty Hunter looks pretty awful, it’s still kind of cool that a kids’ movie, specifically . . .
As a rule, I have to see any movie promoted by a preview that starts with Robert Pattinson disagreeing with Ghandi. Walking into Remember Me, surrounded by a crowd of women aged 13-34 (Twilight’s key demographic, anyone?) I expected . . .
This week I got to see two movies, both dealing in some way with madness, and neither of which I was crazy about.
Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland starts with a young Alice (for some reason wearing copious amounts of makeup to bed) . . .
I’m often as impressed by how much a trailer can oversell a movie as I am by how well a tagline can sum one up. Valentine’s Day is a perfect example. The trailer made the movie look like it was a rollicking star-studded holiday . . .
In When in Rome, Beth (Kristen Bell) is a driven museum curator who is unlucky in love. When she flies to Rome for her sister’s whirlwind wedding she quickly develops feelings for the best man, Nick (Josh Duhamel), until she sees him kissing . . .
The Lovely Bones is narrated by 14 year-old Susie Salmon from “the inbetween,” the perfect world she roams after she is murdered, unable to let go of the people she loves on Earth. Susie makes it clear that her story is not a whodunit mystery. . . .
This time of year is usually a grab-bag of fantastic movies getting in on the race for the Oscars and really pitiful romantic comedies and horror films trying to get in on the big winter box office. I’ve seen a little of both.
Leap Year is the . . .