So you want to make a movie. The first and most important thing to do is to stop reading this column and go make a movie. Go ahead stop reading. Turn off your computer and get away from your desk! WAIT!! You know what? Read this first and make my boss happy. Then go…
DetailsWell, I did it. I got a manager. All that hard work paid off and I can finally kiss PA jobs and this column goodbye. I’m going to be rich soon, so I figure it’s okay if I tell you what went down. My partner and I had a few weeks off and decided we…
DetailsStreet Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li lacks heart. It injects a handful of the player characters from the Street Fighter game into the most standard action-adventure plot this side of Star Wars. Yes, cue “Story” by Robert McKee and Joseph Campbell’s twelve steps of the hero. Although in this case it’s a heroine (go…
DetailsTwelve-year-old Molly is learning about civics in her fifth-grade classroom. And that’s about where this movie belongs. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a good movie, if you’re trying to teach voters about their civic duty and how in a billion-to-one fluke their votes might actually count. I do hope a G-rated version of the film…
DetailsIf this was a spoof, it wasn’t spoofy enough. And if this was pure action escapism, I cringe at the puny imagination of whoever’s getting their kicks from “Paul Blart: Mall Cop.” Kevin James takes his average Joe act from the King of Queens straight into this movie. He stars as the overweight but fairly…
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