This one looks surprisingly good actually, though... different. Especially considering it's Heigl... that could just be me. Katherine Heigl brings Stephanie Plum - the popular heroine of Janet Evanovich's worldwide best-selling seventeen-book mystery series - to vibrant life in Lionsgate and Lakeshore Entertainment's ONE FOR THE MONEY. A proud, born-and-bred Jersey girl, Stephanie … [Read more...]
As I've said before, one of the hurdles in front of us as moviegoers is the fact that a certain number of romantic comdies are a requirement of the trade. The industry simply mandates that these are released with enough frequency that there is almost always a safe enough bet on a date. Not that romantic comedies are all bad, and Life As We Know It certainly isn't the worst you'll find, but the … [Read more...]
I have a great fondness for movies that let me know right where I am just by naming their director. Robert Luketic may have been hard to nail down when he hit the scene with Legally Blonde, but after Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!, and Monster-in-Law we knew where we were. Then came last year’s The Ugly Truth, and though it was met with critical disdain, I came to believe I was getting a sense … [Read more...]
I have a great fondness for movies that let me know right where I am just by naming their director. Robert Luketic may have been hard to nail down when he hit the scene with Legally Blonde, but after Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!, and Monster-in-Law we knew where we were. Then came last year's The Ugly Truth, and though it was met with critical disdain, I came to believe I was getting a sense for … [Read more...]
It may just be the season of movies that surprise me. There seem to be an awful lot of movies that don't appeal to me on the horizon, except that most of them are somehow finding a way to appeal to me. It may have started with the actors, the premise, or both, and none of them are remotely likely to be the next greatest thing, but I'm getting sucked into the idea that they might be fairly … [Read more...]
I don't know about you, but I'm not so sure about the upcoming movie Killers. On the other hand, I wasn't sure about The Ugly Truth either, and while some people bashed that one, I found it surprisingly watchable. What strikes me most about the film so far is that initial reports made it sound like rather a different movie than the one in the trailer. Now it's hard to be sure exactly where … [Read more...]
I'm not generally one to feed out trailers as soon as they hit the web, enough people are doing that anyway, but the trailer for Killers seems to have everyone talking more than usual, and a lot of them are very unhappy. The film in question, which comes out June 4th, stars Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl. It's basically an action comedy, and involves an assassination plot, but with … [Read more...]
The Ugly Truth is the sort of movie that's going to attract all the romantic comedy buzzwords. It's formulaic, contrived, predictable, perhaps even stupid. These words will be tossed around rather smugly, as though they did not apply with equal measure to whatever we might list as the best romantic comedies ever. Before words are even on paper, and the writer merely has the thought, "I'll … [Read more...]
