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Man on the Ledge, movie review

Jane — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:56:58 +0000

‘Man on the Ledge’ Offers

Plenty Of Twists an d Turns

By Maggie Scott

A thriller that’s doing its job right doesn’t tip its hand too soon and hopefully takes the viewer on some creative twists and turns. The best have you going, “Didn’t see that one coming,” more than once.

Movie review: New Year’s Eve

Jane — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:32:23 +0000

Katherine Heigl and Sofia Vergara are two of the many stars who appear in Gary Marshall’s new film New Year’s Eve.

By Maggie Scott

Gary Marshall Fails Again with This Stinker, New Year’s Eve

For director Garry Marshall, the year 2011 will end on a low note, even as he looks forward with certainty for his new film, New Year’s Eve, to capture awards on the order of The Golden Turkey and worst picture Razzie.

I predict critic Roger Ebert will want to include it in his new edition of “Your Movie Sucks,” and reviewers will unanimously file opinions on the order of Andrew Barker of Variety: “…like being crushed under an avalanche of throw pillows.”

Movie review: Arthur Christmas

Jane — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:39:13 +0000

Arthur is the second-born son of Santa in the PG Animated film Arthur Christmas

BY MAGGIE SCOTT

It is a most welcome development that most animated films worth their salt currently are entertaining endeavors not just for children, but, almost more specifically for adults. In my estimation, they’re even more worth their salt if their ability to delight and astound does not rely on them being in the current lamentable fad of 3-D.

Movie review: Happy Feet 2

Jane — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:13:59 +0000

Happy Feet 2 is now in theaters, just in time for the holiday season.

‘Happy Feet 2″ Has All the Right Moves, Music For Quality Sequel

By Maggie Scott

An oceanic invertebrate ponders the vicissitudes of a very unique segment of Antarctica’s avian population when it asks, “Does their dancing bring relief from the existential terrors of the world?” in director George Miller’s continuation of the story of the feathered citizens of Emperor Land—Happy Feet 2.

Movie review: Puss in Boots

Jane — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:04:11 +0000

By Sandra Olmsted

Director Chris Miller’s extravaganza delivers spectacle, laughs, excitement, and beauty, but, like a clandestine rendezvous of Puss in Boots, the film’s story lacks a warm heart and happy ending, which Disney has conditioned the audience to expect in animated films. Fortunately or unfortunately, DreamWorks provides a different take on the children’s film formula but are working out the bugs.

Movie review: The Three Musketeers

Jane — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:05:31 +0000

The Three Musketeers are back again with colorful costumes and swashbuckling action in this film

Lavish Costumes, Fisticuffs, Annoying Slapstick All Make Up New ’3 Musketeers’

By Maggie Scott

What does the latest version (when do we see the musical?) of Alexandre Dumas’ 1844 literary classic, The Three Musketeers, have to offer? A horse named Buttercup and Leonardo Da Vinci’s War Machine.

Movie review: Footloose

Jane — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:40:26 +0000

Julianne Hough and Ken Wormald star in the newest version of Footloose, still a high-energy dance movie

New ‘Footloose’ Takes Rousing Dance Scenes, Heartfelt Message to New Era

By Maggie Scott

In this rapidly politicizing year, it’s possible some might see the remake of Footloose as a rallying cry against conservatives. While much more subtle in its depiction of fervent religious sanctions on the baser proclivities of youth than the original. This version retains the high-spirited resistance most vividly evoked in such lyrics of the famous title song as, “please, Louise, pull me off of my knees” (as in, praying) and “kick off your Sunday shoes.”

Movie review: ’50-50′

Jane — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:10:53 +0000

Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen portray best friends in the new dramedy 50-50.

Likeability of the New Dramedy About Cancer are About ’50-50′

By Maggie Scott

For a person who actually experienced the stress, shock and challenge of cancer in his twenties, Will Reiser, the screenwriter for the new dramedy, 50/50, had a hard time finding the pulse of a story that badly needs a transfusion of genuine, not cliché feeling,. Also some surgical trimming of gravely ill-conceived humor.

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