COMING SOON (MAYBE): ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT: THE MOVIE

Despite the fact that producer Mitchell Hurwitz has been able to revive Arrested Development as a 15-episode TV series for Netflix, he’s still aiming for a movie version. Today’s (Thursday) Los Angeles Times is reporting that Hurwitz designed the Netflix episodes as the first act of a three-act story that will conclude with Arrested Development: [...]

MOVIE REVIEWS: STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS

Several critics are writing at great length about how Star Trek Into Darkness is not the last generation’s Star Trek. The film, writes Claudia Puig in USA Today, “may not go boldly back to the archives, but it serves up an exhilarating spectacle.” Joe Neumaier in the New York Daily News comments that “this go-all-out [...]

MOVIE REVIEWS: IRON MAN 3

As superhero movies move from one sequel to another, they appear to grow “darker,” to use a description that pops up a lot in the current reviews of Iron Man 3, with Robert Downey Jr. again in the title role. Critics generally appear to applaud the darkness. Says Kenneth Turan in the Los Angeles Times: [...]

MOVIE REVIEWS: EVIL DEAD

The general concensus among film critics is that if you’re a dyed-in-the-wool horror-film fan, you’ll love the remake of Evil Dead. (Well, the original was called The Evil Dead.) If not, you’re likely to leave early. Of course, the warning is there in the title. Lou Lumenick admits in his review in the New York [...]

MOVIE REVIEWS: THE CROODS

Reviews of DreamWorks Animation’s The Croods can be described as pretty good overall. But none of the critics are particularly thrilled with it, either. Neil Genzlinger in the New York Times devotes just four short paragraphs to the movie, remarking that “it’s colorful and has an appealing central character and — who knows? — might [...]

MOVIE REVIEWS: OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN

Olympus Has Fallen, the first of two thrillers about a terrorist takeover of the White House, is being taken out by critics the way the terrorists are taken out by Gerard Butler’s character in the movie. Robert Abele in the Los Angeles Times describes it as “a typical slab of Hollywood action in which the [...]

MOVIE REVIEWS: ADMISSION

The stars of Admission – Tina Fey, Paul Rudd, Lily Tomlin, Wallace Shawn — have all appeared in better funnier movies, the critics agree, making this one seem pretty lame by comparison. Several critics, in fact, don’t know quite how to describe it. Mick LaSalle in the San Francisco Chronicle settles on “a drama with [...]

MOVIE REVIEWS: BULLET TO THE HEAD

Sylvester Stallone is probably used to pummeling reviews, but with Bullet to the Head, critics are trying to do to him what Apollo Creed failed to do to Rocky Balboa — finish him off. Writes Scott Bowles in USA Today: “This marks a new low for Sly. Gratuitously violent and brimming with slurs against Asians, [...]

MOVIE REVIEWS: PARKER

Time was when director Taylor Hackford’s name appeared above the title of a film, where it would attract as many moviegoers as the names of the stars. His name still counts for a lot — he is, after all, the twice-elected president of the Directors Guild of America — but it does not appear above [...]

MOVIE REVIEWS: HANSEL AND GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS

Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters was not generally screened for critics. However, the New York Post‘s Lou Lumenick got a look at it, and his review may cast some light on why Paramount elected not to let critics see it in advance. Calling the movie, “direct-to-video-grade dreck,” Lumenick remarks: “January is a traditional dumping ground [...]

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