Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb Written by David Guion and Michael Handelman Directed by Shawn Levy USA/UK, 2014 Getting the band back together for one final gig is almost never a good idea. In the case of Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, however, there’s enough ingenuity and fun to …
This Is Where I Leave You Written by Jonathan Tropper Directed by Shawn Levy USA, 2014 This Is Where I Leave You is an odd duck. Its haphazard combination of broad sit-com humor and quirky indie earnestness leaves you feeling a bit punch-drunk. On the other hand, a superb ensemble cast wrings just enough …
The Internship is a movie very much like its stars, Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson: it tries too hard to be your friend, it doesn’t know when to quit, and it believes that being slick and shiny is all that matters. But somehow, amazingly, it’s also got flashes of charm and wit, enough so that you almost—not quite—can forgive it its trespasses.
Real Steel Directed by Shawn Levy Written by John Gatins, story by Dan Gilroy and Jeremy Leven, based in part on the story Steel by Richard Matheson USA 2011 Real Steel is a Frankenstein Monster of a film assembled from the spare parts, overheated cliches and hackneyed plots of dozens of terrible sports movies, combined …
After enduring countless homages, spoofs, and general ubiquity in the pop-culture lexicon, Richard Fleischer’s 1966 sci-fi flick Fantastic Voyage, in which a specialized team is shrunken to microscopic size and injected into a scientist’s body in order to save his life, is getting a proper remake. Producer James Cameron, himself no stranger to effects-driven odysseys, has been …