MOVIES,REVIEWS
Review | Campy vamps: Burton, Depp turn ’60s remake ‘Dark Shadows’ into ‘That ’70s Show’ 
The years, gray hairs and wrinkles fade away from Johnny Depp and Michelle Pfeiffer, and the cobwebs are brushed off “Dark Shadows” in Tim Burton’s campy and dark take on the late 1960s vampire soap opera.
By Roger Moore, McClatchy-Tribune News Service , May 10, 2012
Review: ‘Bully’ delivers emotional impact
LOS ANGELES – If you feel like you’ve already read quite a bit about the documentary “Bully,” you have. But that still won’t prepare you for the experience of seeing it.
By Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times , May 10, 2012
Review: The gang's all here in 'The Avengers'
The culmination of everything ever written, produced or imagined in the known universe, or something like that, “The Avengers” bunches together Iron Man, Captain America, The Hulk, Thor, the leather-clad assassin Black Widow, the lethal archer Hawkeye and the superheroes’ one-eyed wrangler, Nick Fury.
By Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune , May 03, 2012
Review: Stillman shows no distress with 'Damsels'
With “Damsels in Distress,” his fourth, funniest and most accessible film, writer-director Whit Stillman (“Metropolitan,” “Barcelona,” “Last Days of Disco”) shakes off his “acquired taste” label. Instead of cloistered Upper East Side society, 1970s Manhattan dance palaces or picturesque Spain, the setting this time is the present-day at a rumpled university campus in Anytown U.S.A..
By Rene Rodriguez, McClatchy Newspapers , May 03, 2012
Review: ‘The Raven’ never dull in Cusack’s Poe
The image of Edgar Allan Poe passed down to us is that of a dour, pale and morbid drunkard, a poet haunted by lovers who died in his arms. But he was also a playful wordsmith, an eviscerating critic, a man fascinated by cryptography (codes) and fond of dissections.
By Roger Moore, McClatchy-Tribune News Service , April 27, 2012
Review: Statham’s a ‘Safe’ bet
His Awesomeness, Jason Statham, has let it be known that he chooses his films based on the fight choreographer the producers hire.
By Roger Moore, McClatchy-Tribune News Service , April 27, 2012
Review: It feels like a ‘Five-Year Engagement’
Like a delectable meal that goes on too long, “The Five-Year Engagement” continues past gratification to overindulgence. It’s a very good movie. If a tough editor trimmed it from 124 minutes to 90, it would be wonderful.
By Colin Covert, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) , April 27, 2012
Review: Hearty laughs on the high seas
‘The Pirates!’ an animated film with (some) adult laughsFor top-notch historical research and lowbrow high jinks on the high seas, there’s no topping “The Pirates! Band of Misfits.”
By Colin Covert, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) , April 26, 2012
Review: 'The Lucky One'? It's not Zac Efron
“The Lucky One” is the edgiest-ever film adaptation of the writings of Nicholas Sparks. Which isn't saying much.
By Roger Moore, McClatchy-Tribune News Service , April 19, 2012
Review: Toss ‘Goon’ in penalty box
The fact that a movie as harsh and despicable as “Goon” can be promoted as a comedy says terrible things about the state of the American film industry.
By Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune , April 19, 2012
Directors figure they're getting 'the Disney touch' with 'Chimpanzee'
ORLANDO, Fla. - A few films into their Disneynature movie-making experience, producer-directors Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield, veterans of the BBC's acclaimed “Planet Earth” series, figure they're finally getting the hang of Disney.
By Roger Moore, McClatchy-Tribune News Service , April 19, 2012
Review: Will Ferrell's Spanish film 'Casa de mi Padre' a bizarre detour
Will Ferrell has starred in some exceedingly odd comedies, but he’s never made one as flat-out bizarre as “Casa de mi Padre.”
By Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald , April 19, 2012
Review: Disney swings from trees with ‘Chimpanzee’
Disney’s 2012 movie offering for Earth Day is a gorgeous and technically dazzling look inside the world of chimpanzees – their use of tools, their nurturing instincts, their means of organization during fights and hunts for smaller monkeys, whom they sometimes eat.
By Roger Moore, McClatchy-Tribune News Service , April 19, 2012
Review: Guy Pearce serves up punches and punchlines in ‘Lockout’
Guy Pearce goes into low-Earth orbit to get his cool back in “Lockout,” a silly sci-fi B-picture made fun by his star turn.
By Roger Moore, McClatchy-Tribune News Service , April 12, 2012
Review: Say ‘woo-woo-woo’ to ‘The Three Stooges’
There’s an inner 9-year-old in us all, dying to get out, to laugh at pratfalls, slaps, eye-pokes and fart jokes. That’s what Fox and the Farrelly Brothers are counting on. That’s why they’ve revived “The Three Stooges,” those princes of the puerile, champions of the childish and lions of lowbrow.
By Roger Moore, McClatchy-Tribune News Service , April 12, 2012
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