Chalet Girl feels like a throwback to the most neglected of 80s comedy subgenres, the ski movie. It has been parodied recently in Hot Tub Time Machine and in a not too recent episode of South Park, but from watching this film, you get the impression that the filmmakers are largely unaware. More.........
“Event” movies often come in twos. Deep Impact was followed by Armageddon, Dante's Peak was followed by Volcano, and so on. Battle: Los Angeles (or Battle: LA depending on where you look) comes in the wake of last year's similarly-themed Skyline. More.........
One thing can be learned from the first half hour of Hall Pass: being married is just awful. For women, you are run off your feet and never get any sleep, and for men you'd best prepare yourself for a life of sexual deprivation. More.........
Movies dealing with the Iraq war have not had much luck with audiences in recent years. Should they get a whiff of anti-war liberalism, as happened with the likes of Brian De Palma's Redacted and Robert Redford's Lions for Lambs, then the filmmakers better not expect too warm a reception at the American box-office. More.........
Blood, chopped off arms and legs, swords, defending castles, knights, kings. So you can gather it’s not a chick flick – though it does have a love story. Well sort of. More.........
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