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Released: September 12, 2008 Director: Jon Avnet ***** I can see the pitch meeting for "Righteous Kill" now. "Pacino and De Niro are cops and one of them kills criminals who are let off the hook." And really, that simple logline is exactly what the film is about. De Niro is Turk and Pacino is...
Released: September 19, 2008 Director: David Koepp ***** There is heart in "Ghost Town." It might not be terribly deep or revolutionary or explored as thoroughly as it could have been, but its there. Co-writer and director David Koepp saves it for the final scene, a sequence between Tea Leoni and...
Released: September 12, 2008 Directors: The Coen Brothers ***** Here´s a prediction for you: Brad Pitt will get an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor this year. In the latest flick from Oscar winners Joel and Ethan Coen (last year´s "No Country for Old Men"), Pitt plays Chad Feldheimer, a...
Released: August 13, 2008 Director: Ben Stiller ***** When a Vietnam-era film shoot goes completely wrong, a novice director (Steve Coogan) throws his A-list cast (including Ben Stiller, Robert Downey, Jr., and Jack Black) into the middle of the jungle, hoping to get authentic reactions from them...
Released: August 27, 2008 Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff ***** Don Cheadle loves his political activism. How else do you account for his starring role in "Traitor," a movie which sounds like a good idea on paper, but becomes too muddled with characters and story to be truly effective? To be sure, the...
Released: June 21, 2008 (San Francisco) Director: Dan Gildark ***** Somewhere inside "Cthulhu" is a decent, if not good, story featuring the supernatural, the dark secrets of one coastal town, strained family dynamics and a burgeoning romance. Thanks to a tediously slow opening half hour and poor...
Released: July 18, 208 Director: Phyllida Lloyd ***** In order to understand and appreciate "Mamma Mia!" the movie, a brief history lesson is needed. The musical was originally based in the the West End in London, England, and inspired by the songs of Swedish pop group Abba. The film, and Broadway...
Released: July 18, 2008 Director: Christopher Nolan ***** "The Dark Knight" is more than a sequel to "Batman Begins." It is an extension, a second chapter to the story, if you will. In the 2003 film, the groundwork is established for the characters, the relationships introduced and the world...
Released: July 11, 2008 Director: Guillermo del Toto ***** In the grand pantheon of comic book heroes, Hellboy isn´t exactly at the top of the list. The name itself isn´t the most marketable out there and neither is the character himself: a red hulking creature with filed off horns chomping on a...
Released: June 27, 2008 Director: Andrew Stanton ***** The latest production from the Pixar factory is the most socially conscious animated film we´ve seen since "The Iron Giant." At times saccharine sweet, romantic and sarcastic, it contains a heavy dose of eco-friendliness to boot. While it is a...
Released: July 2, 2008 Director: Peter Berg ***** I am going to make a prediction. When Will Smith´s "Hancock" opens on July 2, it will make close to $100 million during the July 4th holiday, thus further cementing Smith´s reputation as Mr. Independence Day. It is nowhere near as imaginative as...
Released: June 20, 2008 Director: Peter Segal ***** From its opening moments, it´s quite obvious "Get Smart" is intent on doing on thing: making us laugh. Everything else is secondary. As the credits roll over Smart preparing for his day, we see post it notes reminding him to carry out certain...
Released: June 13, 2008 Director: Louis Leterrier ***** For a good 20 minutes, Louis Leterrier´s "The Incredible Hulk" is a masterful work of a man struggling with his nature. We watch as Doctor Bruce Banner (Edward Norton) lives "off the grid" in South America in an effort to remain faceless and...
