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Movie review: Everybody’s Fine »
Robert De Niro talks to his daughter played by Drew Barrymore in EveryBody's Fine, rated PG. By Maggie Scott With Everybody’s Fine, Robert De Niro is dangerously close to the equivalent of what happens to some aging actors who find themselves relegated to ending their careers with roles in cheesy horror films. Director/writer Kirk [...]
Movie review: “The Road” »
By Maggie Scott Whether by man, meteor or Martian, the cause of the destruction of Earth’s civilization isn’t explained in the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s best-selling novel, The Road. How and why is superfluous in the face of the brutal fact that the world has become a living nightmare for the unlucky few who have survived [...]
Movie review: “The Road” »
By Maggie Scott Whether by man, meteor or Martian, the cause of the destruction of Earth’s civilization isn’t explained in the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s best-selling novel, The Road. How and why is superfluous in the face of the brutal fact that the world has become a living nightmare for the unlucky few who have survived [...]
Movie review: 2012 »
By Maggie Scott Park your brain at the concession stand while you order that double tub of popcorn you’re going to need to fill that open mouth you’ll have watching the jaw-dropping, pulse-pounding 2012. You won’t need the gray matter because director Roland Emmerich is aiming straight at your gut with some of the most horrifying [...]
Movie Review: A Christmas Carol »
Scrooge Brought Back With Latest Technology By Maggie Scott Walt Disney Pictures and director Robert Zemeckis have blessed us everyone with a new film version of the timeless Charles Dickens’ literary classic, A Christmas Carol. But, it’s a mixed blessing. As a universally relevant and richly adaptive story of human redemption, [...]
Movie review: Whip It »
Movie Review: Whip It BY MAGGIE SCOTT Drew Barrymore is a charming young lady and a vivacious actress who’s a veteran in front of the camera after more than 20 years in the motion picture industry. Winning personality and natural acting abilities have assured her of steady work, plenty of fans and positive critics. After taking a [...]
Movie review: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs »
BY MAGGIE SCOTT First, there was "Up". Now, there is "Down," so-to-speak, with the scrumptious new 3-D animated comedy release from Columbia Pictures, "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs;" in which the sky is falling on the Atlantic island community of Swallow Falls and the effect won’t be like pennies from heaven for long. [...]
Movie review: Extract »
BY MAGGIE SCOTT Once, his claim to fame was as actress Justine Bateman’s kid brother. As a 12-year-old, he cut his acting teeth with a roles in the early ‘80’s on "Little House on the Prairie" and "Silver Spoons"; portrayed Joe Kennedy III in the 1985 mini-series, “Robert Kennedy and His Times;†and took the [...]
Movie review: Post Grad »
BY MAGGIE SCOTT Post Grad is a plodding puff piece euphemistically depicting the endeavors of a newly-minted college grad to “do something amazing†with her life---specifically as a shoe-in hire at the L.A. publishing firm of Happerman & Browning. Ryden Malby (Alexis Bledel) has dreamed of the day she can flip the [...]
Movie Review: Julie and Julia »
BY MAGGIE SCOTT In the introduction to her 1999 cookbook collaboration with the celebrated French chef, Jacques Pepin---“Julia and Jacques:Cooking at Homeâ€---the legendary American chef Julia Child wrote, “Food is not only our business but our greatest pleasure, and we think its preparation should be a joyful [...]
