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Spielberg's War Horse Loses Ground On Oscars Rivals
The annual race for glory at the Oscars is on and with the eagerly-anticipated War Horse receiving mixed reviews, it could well be losing ground on other front-runners The Artist and The Descendents.War Horse, directed...
By Lew Irwin on 22 December 2011
Movie Reviews New Years Eve
New Year's Eve boasts a skillful comedy director, Garry Marshal, and an imposing cluster of stars, including Halle Berry, Hilary Swank, Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Cary Elwes, James Belushi, Penny Marshall, Matthew BroderickBon Jovi,...
By Lew Irwin on 09 December 2011
Movie Reviews The Muppets
If George Lucas had been assigned the task of staging the motion-picture comeback of the Muppets, he might have done to them what he did to Yoda, his Star Wars character originally created in Jim...
By Lew Irwin on 23 November 2011
Movie Reviews The Big Year
If you think you have seen a movie about every sport that has ever existed, think again. The Big Year is a movie about competitive bird watching and stars Owen Wilson as the champion --...
By Lew Irwin on 14 October 2011
Movie Reviews The Ides Of March
Several reviews of The Ides of March are putting first things first. While Ides of March is a political drama and director/co-star/co-screenwriter George Clooney is a card-carrying liberal Democrat, it is not a movie that...
By Lew Irwin on 07 October 2011
Movie Reviews Killer Elite
For the most part, U.S. critics are shooting down Killer Elite (no relation to Sam Peckinpah's 1975 film The Killer Elite ), which stars Jason Statham, Robert De Niro and Clive Owen. With such names...
By Lew Irwin on 26 September 2011
Movie Reviews Conan The Barbarian
The new Conan the Barbarian is getting the same sort of reviews that Arnold Schwarzenegger did when he ... left office as governor of California. Pretty awful. " Conan the Barbarian is a brutal, crude,...
By Lew Irwin on 19 August 2011
Movie Reviews Monte Carlo
You win some, you lose some, the saying goes, and Monte Carlo , starring Selena Gomez, Leighton Meester and Katie Cassidy, does both so far as the critics are concerned. Mick LaSalle in the San...
By Lew Irwin on 01 July 2011
Movie Reviews Larry Crowne
Who would have thought that a movie starring Hollywood nice persons Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts -- and produced and directed by Hanks -- would be dumped on by most critics? Well, that has turned...
By Lew Irwin on 01 July 2011
Movie Reviews Arthur
Russell Brand is no Dudley Moore, just a dud. That's the general conclusion of critics reviewing Brand's performance in the remake of the 1981 film Arthur , which starred Moore. "Brand is unable to charm,"...
By Lew Irwin on 08 April 2011
Movie Reviews Red Riding Hood
What every teenage girl knows about Red Riding Hood is that it is directed by Catherine Hardwicke -- she of the first Twilight film. They may also know that they should stay clear of wolves...
By Lew Irwin on 11 March 2011
Movie Reviews Hall Pass
The R-rated Hall Pass, Bobby and Peter Farrely's first film since 2007, has received passing grades from only two major-market critics, Wesley Morris of the Boston Globe and Carrie Rickey of the Philadelphia Inquirer. In...
By Lew Irwin on 25 February 2011
Movie Reviews The Black Swan
Opening in limited release, Darren Aronofsky's ballet-themed The Black Swan , is receiving a standing ovation from critics. Indeed Lou Lumenick of the New York Post applauds three times -- that's how many times he...
By Lew Irwin on 03 December 2010
Movie Reviews Hereafter
Moviegoers heading to the theaters this weekend to see Hereafter may likely have been wondering what, at the age of 80, was Clint Eastwood going to say about the hereafter? Well, quite a lot, say...
By Lew Irwin on 25 October 2010
Roger Ebert Reviving At The Movies
Saying that it represents "the rebirth of a dream," Roger Ebert announced on his blog over the weekend that he is reviving his film-review show At the Movies on PBS in January. It will be...
By Lew Irwin on 13 September 2010
Schneider Slams Ebert On Air
Comedy star ROB SCHNEIDER has attacked American movie critic ROGER EBERT claiming he hates his films because he was unpopular in school. The DEUCE BIGALOW: MALE GIGOLO actor has been plagued by bad reviews...
By WENN on 25 June 2004
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