After falling to the Celtics, there’s been plenty of idle chatter about whether Chicago Bulls coach Vinny Del Negro should be fired.  And it’s all silly chatter from ignorant corners.  (Really, have you listened to some of these talk radio hosts?  Have they ever watched a basketball game in their life?)
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine’s script may be the summation of everything derisive about the phrase “comic book movie.”  Of course, if you’ve read any comics with Wolverine in them, I can succinctly sum up the lameness of the script in two words: “adamantium bullets.”  Both times that phrase opened a scene, the [...]

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It is amazing to me that someone who worships Will Eisner (the genius behind the original Spirit comics) like director Frank Miller could do such an amazingly awful job of adapting The Spirit to film.  It fails on two levels: as a film and as an adaptation.
As a film, this is easily the worst thing [...]

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The story with Valkyrie, the latest Tom Cruise vehicle, isn’t so much about the film itself as with the scheduling of the film. Valkyrie is set to open on Christmas. Really, what could be more heartwarming a movie to watch at Christmas than a movie about killing Hitler? Perhaps a movie about trying to kill Hitler, failing, and [...]

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Punisher: War Zone is an enjoyable mess of a movie, suffering from being perhaps a bit too faithful to the comic without realizing the comic has separate incarnations.
Garth Ennis is the main Punisher writer of the last decade or so and was sited by War Zone director Lexi Alexander as a major influence on the [...]

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Quantum of Solace is the extremely disappointing follow-up to Casino Royale and serves as a stillborn transitory state as the franchise seeks to move from Royale’s reboot to something closer to the status quo of the Bond series.
This film has a ton of problems, from director to editor to recycled plot elements to a bad [...]

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The corporate need for a Watchmen 2 has been brewing ever since the movie trailer hit and the book sales went into the stratosphere. Our friend, Rich Johnston, was talking about the near inevitability of a sequel and how you’d be hard pressed to get anyone to believe that the issue hasn’t become a personal matter [...]

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Ghost Town is a cynical supernatural comedy that had the misfortune of getting turned into a sentimental date movie in the last act of the film.
There’s a popular theory with American film makers that you absolutely have to give the audience someone to identify with. In England, especially with comedies, there’s a tendency to create characters [...]

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Tropic Thunder has a ridiculous amount of star power attached to it. Sure, you’ve seen trailers with Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey, Jr. Thing is, Nick Nolte, Matthew McConaughey and Tom Cruise each show up in supporting roles. Yes, I said Tom Cruise, but we’ll get back to him in a bit. You’ve also got Steve Coogan [...]

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They sure picked the wrong year to release a new Mummy movie. Don’t get me wrong, I liked the film, but you figure the summer already has seen two stellar action movies in The Dark Knight and Iron Man, a new Indiana Jones movie (and the Mummy series has always been, in a sense, Indiana Jones [...]

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