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The Sunshine Boys; AirHotel; Detroit – review
21 May 2012 6:09 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Savoy, London; Holt Hall, Norfolk; Cottesloe, London
On the screen in 1975 it was Walter Matthau and George Burns. In a 1996 television adaptation it was Woody Allen and Peter ("Columbo") Falk. Now it's Danny DeVito and Richard Griffiths. It will always be the casting that draws audiences to The Sunshine Boys. That's just as well: Neil Simon's play is a wheezy old thing.
Griffiths and DeVito look right – which is to say mismatched – as a resurrected (just) vaudeville comedy duo who were once dependent though bickering, and are, in old age, estranged. It's not just the sheer difference in size – the Mountain and the Molehill – but the gait, the gestures, the speed across the stage, that makes the two men appear to have crash-landed from different planets.
Griffiths presides over his huge bulk like a kindly ruler quelling a potential revolution: even when flustered he moves with a light-footed grace. »
- Susannah Clapp
Short Circuit Remake to Offer a Radical New Take on Johnny 5
11 April 2012 5:06 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
1986's Short Circuit is a cute, sometimes funny riff on E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial that never feels dangerous or all that threatening given the fact that it basically falls in line with The Terminator's backstory in terms of non-sentient beings gaining intelligence. Johnny 5 becomes self aware, but he wants to love, not destroy the human race.
Director Tim Hill, whose last project was the fluffy Easter themed comedy Hop, is hoping to change that with his upcoming Short Circuit remake. Sure, it will still be a sci-fi comedy about a lovable robot that becomes self-thinking, but he wants the movie to feel dangerous. He wants the themes of Short Circuit to play bigger, and have more relevance in terms of these times of War we currently live in.
"The thing that makes it so relevant is that we live in this age of robots, particularly when it comes to war. »
- MovieWeb
The greatest actress in American political history
6 March 2012 9:44 AM, PST | blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news »
Sarah Palin lacked the preparation or temperament to be one heartbeat away from the presidency, but what she possessed in abundance was the ability to inflame political passions and energize the John McCain campaign with star quality. That much we already knew. What I didn't expect to discover after viewing "Game Change," a new HBO film about the 2008 McCain campaign, was how much sympathy I would feel for Palin, and even more for John McCain.
The movie is largely told from the point of view of two McCain advisers, Steve Schmidt (Woody Harrelson) and Nicolle Wallace (Sarah Paulson). Schmidt was instrumental in the selection of Palin (Julianne Moore) as the running mate of McCain (Ed Harris), and Wallace was another senior adviser. During the campaign, they share their concern as Palin reveals a comprehensive lack of knowledge about current events.
In the days before Palin's selection, it seemed so much simpler. »
- Roger Ebert
Finding Nemo 3D Trailer
11 January 2012 9:32 AM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Walt Disney Pictures has released a new trailer for the 3D re-release of Finding Nemo, which returns to theaters nationwide September 14. Click on the video player below to go under the sea with this Pixar classic starring Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, and Alexander Gould.
Finding Nemo comes to theaters September 14th, 2012 and stars Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, Willem Dafoe, Brad Garrett, Allison Janney, Austin Pendleton, Stephen Root. The film is directed by Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich. »
- MovieWeb
Extended Thoughts on The Muppet Christmas Carol
5 January 2012 8:39 PM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Is it right for us to see the Muppets out of their natural habitat? That question was posed to audiences in the 1990s, as Walt Disney Pictures brought us The Muppet Christmas Carol in 1992 and Muppet Treasure Island in 1996, two adaptations of famous novels with Muppets inserted into key roles. There were humans present in both films, but humans play second fiddle to the Muppets. Simply by being Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, the Great Gonzo, and more, the Muppets take the spotlight away from the humans beside them. There have been different ways of saying it, but the biggest flaw in The Muppets is that Jason Segel and Amy Adams aren’t as compelling as the felt creatures standing next to them. But the problem in The Muppets isn’t nearly as frustrating as what happens in The Muppet Christmas Carol.
By making Ebenezer Scrooge a human character, »
- Josh Spiegel
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