MOVIES,REVIEWS
Review: Crude talking toy 'Ted' shows us how stupidly the rest of us are behaving 
There are moments in Seth MacFarlane’s new comedy “Ted” so flagrantly vulgar – bits involving parsnips and hand lotion and human excrement (though thankfully not all together) – that you are inevitably reminded of John Waters, the maestro of bad taste who held up a fun-house mirror to America in the 1970s and ‘80s, in movies like “Pink Flamingos” and “Polyester,” showing us that we are not nearly so upstanding as we would like to pretend.
By Christopher Kelly, McClatchy Newspapers , June 28, 2012
Review: ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ vintage Wes Anderson, but not one of his best
Wes Anderson, the cinema’s Tsar of Twee, takes on young-younger-youngest love and making rebellious square pegs fit into round holes with “Moonrise Kingdom,” his latest venture into the dark and the daft.
By Roger Moore, McClatchy Newspapers , June 28, 2012
Review: Soderbergh and his strippers work it with feeling in ‘Magic Mike’
It’s no great stretch to imagine the chiseled, hot-footed hottie Channing Tatum as a stripper. It’s how he got his start in show business, after all.
And even though he never danced for his dollars, Matthew McConaughey has never been shy about shedding a shirt on the big screen.
By Roger Moore, McClatchy-Tribune News Service , June 28, 2012
Review: 'Hysteria’ not hysterical, but it is amusing
Exhausted by blockbusters? Here’s a small film to treasure. “Hysteria” is a movie of effortless charm and good humor. It’s the mostly true story of the invention of the vibrator in Victorian England, told as a clever love story, an amusing comedy of manners, and a smart message movie.
By Colin Covert, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) , June 21, 2012
Review: ‘Brave’ latest in string of films featuring strong-minded women
It’s been a good couple of months for strong-minded women wielding medieval weaponry: “The Hunger Games,” “Snow White and the Huntsman” and now Pixar’s “Brave.” Set in the Scottish highlands of, oh, a thousand years ago, this dark and lovely yarn borrows from old world folktales, and more than a bit, too, from Hayao Miyazaki’s heroine-driven animated adventures.
By Steven Rea, The Philadelphia Inquirer , June 21, 2012
Review: Ax not what 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' can do for you
Sense of fun drained quickly from adaptation of book
Poor Abe Lincoln. First there was the Civil War and that whole assassination thing. And now this: “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,” a horror-thriller about the Rail Splitter as demon slayer that’s about as dull as one of his axes that’s been left out in the Illinois winter too long.
By Cary Darling, McClatchy Newspapers , June 21, 2012
Review: Maybe not for the ages, but this ‘Rock’ is solid
Rock musical chock-full of star cameos aspires to be ‘Grease’ of ’80s hair metal‘Rock of Ages” aspires to be the “Grease” of ’80s hair metal. It ends up being “Mamma Mia” with a dash of “Glee.”
By Colin Covert, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) , June 14, 2012
Review: Sandler finally tops ‘The Hangover’ - in grossness - in 'That's My Boy'
Vanilla Ice is back, back baby. And for that crime alone, Adam Sandler should get the chair.
By Roger Moore, McClatchy-Tribune News Service , June 14, 2012
Review: ’Why we are haunted by the horror of ‘Alien’ in ‘Prometheus'
Thirty-three years ago, Ridley Scott’s “Alien” unleashed on an unsuspecting public one of the most virulent, relentless monsters in movie history. Audiences in 1979 were shocked when, in a now-classic scene, the creature burst onto the scene after tearing, ripping and biting its way out of John Hurt’s chest.
By Tirdad Derakhshani, The Philadelphia Inquirer , June 07, 2012
Review: Third time’s the charm for ‘Madagascar’ gang
“Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted” is one of the fanciest, most carefully assembled cartoons ever put on the screen. The jokes come so fast they’re nearly subliminal. Plot points whiz by and when things threaten to blur, there’s a crazy musical number or a tightly worked out physical comedy routine involving a hippo or a penguin.
By Colin Covert, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) , June 07, 2012
Review: ‘For Greater Glory’ isn’t epic its backers hoped it would be
“For Greater Glory” is a meandering, malnourished epic of a forgotten Mexican civil war, the one “after” the Mexican Revolution that made Pancho Villa famous. This period piece, partly financed by the Catholic Knights of Columbus, is about the Cristeros War, when Catholic priests and peasants took up arms against Mexico’s revolutionary government’s efforts to repress the Catholic Church.
By Roger Moore, McClatchy-Tribune News Service , June 07, 2012
Review: ‘Men in Black’ are still funny, even if they’ve lost their fastball
Josh Brolin impersonating the young Tommy Lee Jones is worth the price of admission to “Men in Black 3.” Dry, drawling, deadpan - he nails the flinty Texan in this sentimental sequel to the sci-fi comedies about secret agents in black suits who save the world from aliens.
By Roger Moore, McClatchy Newspapers , May 24, 2012
Review: Awww, they sunk this 'Battleship'
“Battleship” is a board game for children, so it stands to reason a film adaptation would also be aimed at kids. But did they have to gear it to really dumb kids?
By Rene Rodriguez, McClatchy Newspapers , May 17, 2012
Review: Don't expect much from 'What to Expect When You Are Expecting'
“What to Expect When You Are Expecting” is loosely based on the popular pregnancy guide by Heidi Murkoff. The film and book share a title and both contain pregnant women. Any other similarities are purely coincidental.
By Rick Bentley, McClatchy Newspapers , May 17, 2012
REVIEW: This ‘Dictator’ has no clothes
“The Dictator” does for Sacha Baron Cohen what “The Love Guru” did for Mike Myers: reveal that this sharp, revered comedian with an uncanny ear for absurdist humor is a mere mortal capable of great folly.
By McClatchy Newspapers , May 15, 2012
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