2014 'RoboCop' & 'Frankenstein' Reboots Are Domestic Bombs + Zac Efron Disappointment to Pay for Itself?
2014 RoboCop with Joel Kinnaman. 2014 'RoboCop': Full-fledged domestic bomb Directed by José Padilha, and starring Joel Kinnaman and Abbie Cornish, Sony Picture's $100 million-budgeted 2014 RoboCop remake opened with disappointing numbers on Wednesday, Feb. 12. Things improved a bit…
'RoboCop' 2014 Review: Curious Ideas Superficially Addressed
by Mark Keizer 5 years ago
Robocop 2014 movie with Joel Kinnaman and Abbie Cornish. 'Robocop' 2014 review: 'More interesting ideas than it can properly address' You'll have to excuse older moviegoers if they feel an almost weekly tinge of nostalgia with the latest announcement that…
'Carnage' Review Mix + Madonna Movie 'W.E.' Widely Lambasted
by Anna Robinson 7 years ago
Carnage review mix is less than enthusiastic: Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz in Roman Polanski's post-arrest comeback. Based on Yasmine Reza's play God of Carnage, Roman Polanski's Carnage is the director's first film since last year's…
'Hot Chick Movie' Bombs + Bradley Cooper Has a Hit
"Hot Chick Movie": Jamie Chung, Vanessa Hudgens diplay quite a bit of cleavage in Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch April 1 update: Starring Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish, Anna Friel, and Robert De Niro, Neil Burger's thriller Limitless topped the North American…
Atrocities in Afghanistan & Naked Men in Saunas + Paul Mazursky: Movie Awards
by S. Montgomery 8 years ago
Paul Mazursky career highlight: Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, with Natalie Wood, Elliott Gould, Robert Culp, and Dyan Cannon. Paul Mazursky: Los Angeles Film Critics Career Achievement Award Paul Mazursky, among whose efforts as writer-director are Bob &…
'Vanity Fair' 'White' Cover Racist? Kristen Stewart & Abbie Cornish & Carey Mulligan + Too Much Ado About Nothing?
Vanity Fair "white" cover racist? Pictured are Kristen Stewart, Abbie Cornish, Anna Kendrick, Carey Mulligan, Mia Wasikowska, Amanda Seyfried, Emma Stone, Rebecca Hall, and Evan Rachel Wood. First a furor over Avatar and its blue Na'vi (among other issues), now…
Oscar in Spanish? Controversial Nominees + Pedro Almodóvar & Penélope Cruz
Penélope Cruz in Broken Embraces (Emilio Pereda & Paola Ardizzoni / El Deseo / Sony Pictures Classics) (top); Jordi Mollà in El cónsul de Sodoma (Steinweg Emotion Pictures) (bottom). In the Spanish-language website Filmin, "questions without answers" are asked about…