Movie Review

Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to highlight films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… Germany!

A few more films like these, and this will be remembered as the beginning of the end of Will Smith’s blockbuster career.

Every once in a while we head out into the world, seeking a little escapism from our everyday grind. Thankfully, Hollywood pumps out wicked, energy-infused flicks like Wanted. Escapism, ho!

Pixar has done it again by giving us the best possible film. It’s a movie for all ages, touching on the very basic elements of human emotion and tenderness.

Just as Disney’s early animated films seem to have something magical about them, Pixar has ushered in a new era of delighting audiences. And with WALL-E, they seem to have found the magic once again.

Steve Carell proves once again that while he can be over the top like many of his peers, he is also a master at dead panned, straight faced humor.

Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to highlight films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… Japan!

When the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas said “Somebody’s boring me. I think it’s me,” he may have just seen The Edge of Love, allegedly based on his own life.

In terms of reaching a 21st century audience, Get Smart was about as good as it could be.

There is certainly something about a big, dumb Mike Myers-led comedy that leaves moviegoers emptying their wallets, isn’t there?

When Peter Segal and Co. set out to make this new version of Get Smart, they set out not to remake, but to reinvigorate. In that light, their film can be seen as a significant accomplishment.

Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to highlight films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to the United Kingdom!

Steve Carell leads a great cast of classic characters that deliver a spy van full of laughs and do the original TV series slapstick justice.

The Happening isn’t a success, nor is it a total failure. It’s not quite a return to form, but compared to Shyamalan’s last two efforts, it is certainly a step in the right direction.

In the tradition of X-Men and Spider-Man, this version of The Incredible Hulk is a solid adaptation for the big screen that retains its comic book feel.

Before I even start talking about The Happening, I have to preface this review by saying that if you aren’t a fan of M. Night Shyamalan, you will probably hate the movie. However, if you like the guy’s stuff, you will probably enjoy the film.

Writer and Director Ryan Gielen calls his film The Graduates, “a love letter to Ocean City,” but it could just as easily be a love letter to that month in everyone’s life when they don’t know whether they’re still in high school or already in college.

After the emotionally draining experience that was Iron Man in early May, the fanboy inside of me was sure that there was no way that Marvel Studios could go two-for-two in the Summer of ‘08. Go figure, I was wrong.

Last week we descended into the bowels of The Machine Girl and came out sticky, tingly, and feeling just a little bit dirty… so this week I’m going to class things up a bit by covering an award-winning film that doesn’t involve Japanese schoolgirls or geysers of blood.

Earlier this year, I feared Kung Fu Panda. I was afraid it was going to be nothing more than another Shark Tale. Fortunately, I was wrong.

If the film had been over-the-top throughout, it might have worked. But instead, it settles down at all the wrong places. It’s not that you won’t laugh at the film, but in the down moments, you might just be laughing at the movie’s expense.

While fans flock to theaters to see a man in a fedora and lots of Sex in a City, it might be easy to forget that a fun, well-animated family flick goes a long way during summer movie season.

The 9th Annual Golden Trailer awards honored the best previews of the year this week, with one very obvious omission — the best trailer of the year: The Machine Girl.

Have you ever left a movie feeling confused, awestruck and possibly a little bit violated? If so, then you are already on your way to knowing what it is like to experience director Josh Seftel’s oddly toned, overly quirky yet somewhat charming film War Inc.

I like a good horror movie, so I am a bit conflicted when it comes to the movie The Strangers.

I feel a bit odd heaping praise on the film – even more odd than attending the 400+ person screening with our illustrious Executive Editor Neil Miller and being two of only about a dozen guys in the house. But there’s a lot of good things in this movie.

Everyone is going nuts for Indiana Jones and it is well on its way to earning huge bucks at the box office this weekend… except me. I wasn’t sold on this trip down memory lane, and here’s my evidence that this just wasn’t an Indiana Jones movie.

Back in the later 1950s, a prominent doctor named Dorian Paskowitz dropped out of the traditional life and took his wife on the road, living out of a trailer. Before long, they had nine kids (eight boys and one girl), and they lived a life of surfing out of that trailer, before things began to unravel.

Spielberg, Lucas, Ford and the rest of the Indiana Jones crew are back for another round. And while we can never expect this one to live up to the legend that is the original trilogy, we should still be able to find an entertaining summer flick, right?

This appears to be a case where all involved had a blast getting back together for a fourth film after what appeared to be a concluded trilogy, but forgot to make a good movie.