No matter how much you love comic books and eagerly anticipate your favorites being turned into major motion pictures, at some point fatigue has to set in, right? Depending on how you define a “comic book movie,” we are currently slated for at least 64 upcoming comic-book related features over the next few years. The […]
Reel News: Week of Nov. 7 – Jack and Jill, Immortals, J. Edgar, Harry Potter 7, The Change-Up
Theatrical Releases This Week Jack and Jill Director: Dennis Dugan Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA48UG0gkJI Jack and Jill is a comedy focusing on Jack Sadelstein (Adam Sandler), a successful advertising executive in Los Angeles with a beautiful wife and kids, who dreads one event each year: the Thanksgiving visit of his identical twin sister Jill (also Adam Sandler). […]
Dagger Movie Night – “The Change-Up”: Yet Another Body-Swap Comedy, Now With More Poop Jokes
Starting with a premise that has been done too many times, one needs to find a way to up the ante. Unfortunately, “The Change-up” decided to go all in with cursing, sexual innuendo, and poop at the expense of actual jokes. But, even those problems can’t hide the fact that we’re being subjected to another […]
Reel News: Week of August 1 – Rise of the Planet of the Apes, The Change-Up in Theaters; Rio on DVD
Theatrical Releases This Week Rise of the Planet of the Apes Director: Rupert Wyatt An origin story set in present-day San Francisco, where man’s experiments with genetic engineering lead to the development of intelligence in apes and the onset of a war for supremacy. Fans of the series should rejoice, as the early reviews are […]
Movie Review: “Buried”
By Mark Special to The Dagger A complex narrative in a deceptively simple setting, Buried provides suspense and thrills, but loses its way while trying to be too many things. Paul Conroy (Ryan Reynolds) is a civilian truck driver who is captured in Iraq by insurgents and awakens in a coffin buried somewhere in the […]
