<P>Whatever happened to the delight and, if you'll excuse the term, the magic in the "Harry Potter" series? As the characters grow up, the stories grow, too, leaving the innocence behind and confusing us with plots so labyrinthine that it takes… [详细内容]
<P>The Japanese phrase "mono no aware," is a bittersweet reference to the transience of life. It came to mind as I was watching "Lost in Translation," which is sweet and sad at the same time it is sardonic and funny. Bill Murray and Scarlett Jo… [详细内容]
<P>"trainspotting" is that rarity: a movie that arrives bearing the imprimatur of hip and turns out to live up to all of the advance hype. The most original, daring, thrilling movie to be released this year, "Trainspotting" is one of those occa… [详细内容]
<P>Any Hollywood movie that begins with the phrase 'based on a true story' is knowingly practicing false advertising. While the key word is always 'based,' the filmmakers know it's the word 'true' that will send the hearts of its audience aflut… [详细内容]
<P>Fatherhood has a way of changing people, even caustic comedians like Martin Lawrence. According to one televised interview, this once foul-mouthed, stand-up entertainer wanted to tame down to a G-rated performance so his kids could see Dad o… [详细内容]
<P>The Oscar winning 1934 comedy directed by Frank Capra is showing at the Aero Theater in Santa Monica Wednesday, June 14 at 7:30pm!</P>
<P>If you haven'st had the pleasure of previously seeing this exceptional example of the “screwball” c… [详细内容]
<P>The life story of Pu Yi, who ascended the throne of China at the age of three, and was eventually deposed, is told in flashback during his detention and "reeducation" at a prison camp in the 1950s. </P>
<P>In this story Bertolucci found bo… [详细内容]
<P>Hollywood has a lousy rep for remakes of foreign movies. The list is exhaustive and too boring to go into here. Let's just say, William Monahan's reworking of Siu Fai Mak and Felix Chong's script of Infernal Affairs (2002) is blistering. Tha… [详细内容]
<P>``Never Been Kissed'' stars Drew Barrymore as a copy editor for that excellent newspaper, the Chicago Sun-Times. I recommend its use as a recruiting film--not because it offers a realistic view of journalistic life, but because who wouldn't … [详细内容]
<P>There once was an Onion headline along the lines of "Morgan Freeman Narrating Uncontrollably." He does it again here, even from beyond the dead, in a movie where not one emotion nor even some of the backdrops seem the least bit real.</P>
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<P>What is Adam Sandler up to? </P>
<P>The living god of the 22-year-old, backward-ballcap male demographic has made several comedies that were substantially smarter than you'd expect. </P>
<P>But if you think about it, Sandler and collabor… [详细内容]
<P>Despite all of the cheap, cheesy, and/or thoroughly unnecessary sequels I've seen on purpose in my time, a second helping of the 2006 dance-romance (ro-dance?) Step Up was not high on my list of potential larks, thanks to dance-movie fatigue… [详细内容]
最美好的事,The Sweetest Thing Women are often termed"the fairer sex." Besides the fact that they are arguably more aesthetically pleasing, the phrase also implies that the XX-chromosomed are somehow less prone to the base instincts which make … [详细内容]
最美好的事,The Sweetest Thing Reviewing"The Sweetest Thing" is like shooting a horse with four broken legs. You want to be cognizant of the poor beast's misery, but you're too aware of your own. This picture is one of the flattest, stupidest, … [详细内容]
最美好的事,The Sweetest Thing Is it foolish and naive of me to wonder how movies like this get made? Are audiences so undiscriminating that they will plunk down$9 to see something this creatively bankrupt? Is it pointless to open a review with… [详细内容]