Category: Movie Reviews

Cast: Johnny Knoxville, Brian Cox, Katherine Heigl Studio: Fox Rating: 4.5/10 CORPORATE LINE: Steve Barker (JOHNNY KNOXVILLE) is a nice guy stuck in a mundane desk job when a twist of fate turns his life – and his definition of success – utterly upside down. When Steve works up the courage to ask his boss…

Cast: John Jarratt, Kestie Morassi, Cassandra Magrath Studio: The Weinstein Company Rating: 7.5/10 CORPORATE LINE: It was supposed to be the vacation of a lifetime in the Australian Outback – full of fun, sun and adventure. But what happened to a trio of twenty-something backpackers took a wrenching detour into the depths of unrelenting terror.…

Cast: Catherine Keener, Steve Carrell, Paul Rudd Studio: Universal Rating: 7.5/10 CORPORATE LINE: 40-year-old Andy Stitzer (Steve Carrell) has done quite a few things in his life. He’s got a cushy job stamping invoices at an electronics superstore, a nice apartment with a proud collection of action figures and comic books, good friends, a nice…

Cast: Naomi Watts, Adrien Brody, Jack Black Studio: Universal Rating: 10/10 CORPORATE LINE: It is 1933, and vaudeville actress Ann Darrow (Oscar® nominee for 21 Grams, NAOMI WATTS) has found herself—like so many other New Yorkers during the Great Depression—without the means to earn a living. Unwilling to compromise and allow herself to sink into…

Cast: Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe, Gong Li Studio: Columbia Rating: 7/10 THE LINE: Set in a mysterious and exotic world which still casts a potent spell today, the story begins in the years before World War II, when a Japanese child is torn from her penniless family to work as a servant in a geisha…

Cast: Russell Crowe, Renee Zellweger, Paul Giamatti Studio: Universal Rating: 9/10 CORPORATE LINE: Academy Award®-winning producer Brian Grazer, director Ron Howard and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman (all Oscar® winners for 2001’s A Beautiful Mind) are reunited with Oscar® winner Russell Crowe for the Universal Pictures-Miramax Films-Imagine Entertainment production, Cinderella Man. Starring opposite Crowe is two-time Oscar®…

Cast: Charlize Theron, Marton Csokas, Jonny Lee Miller, Sophie Okonedo Studio: Paramount Rating: 4/10 CORPORATE LINE: Charlize Theron stars as Aeon Flux, kick-ass secret agent of the future, who is sent to assassinate a government leader and finds herself in a Byzantine world of intrigue and trouble. THE MOVIE: Charlize Theron looks sexy in that…

Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon Studio: Fox Rating: 7.5/10 CORPORATE LINE: He picked cotton, sold door to door, and served in the Air Force. He was a voice of rebellion that changed the face of rock and roll. An outlaw before today’s rebels were born – and an icon they would never forget. He did…

Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson Studio: Warner Bros. Rating: 8.5/10 THE LINE: Difficult times lie ahead for Harry Potter. Beset by nightmares that leave his scar hurting more than usual, Harry (DANIEL RADCLIFFE) is all too happy to escape his disturbing dreams by attending the Quidditch World Cup with his friends Ron (RUPERT…

Cast: Josh Hutcherson, Jonah Bobo, Dax Shepard Studio: Columbia Rating: 7/10 CORPORATE LINE: In the heart-racing sci-fi adventure Zathura, two squabbling brothers are propelled into deepest, darkest space while playing a mysterious game they discovered in the basement of their old house. On their fantastic journey, they are joined by a stranded astronaut and must…