Posted on 01 June 2009
Home of the Brave brings yet another look at the Iraq war, this from the view of four veterans who survived an ambush while delivering medical supplies. Irwin Winkler directs a script by first-timer Mark Friedman, who makes some rookie mistakes, but otherwise creates a compelling drama about the after effects of war.
Jessica Biel, Curtis [...]
Posted on 28 May 2009
Rose Johnny (Jessica Biel) is a single mother. She has a son in a vegetative state at a hospital piling up medical bills. She struggles to make ends meet at a seedy strip club.
Those scenes with Biel and her child are the only effective ones in Powder Blue, an awful melodrama about lonely people living [...]
Posted on 22 March 2009
You don’t rush into a summer action movie and expect to take something away from it. There is, however, a line which, when crossed, takes dumb fun and turns it into sheer boredom. That’s Stealth.
How Jamie Foxx went from an Academy Award-winning showcase in Ray to this epic box-office disaster is forever a mystery. Jessica [...]