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Nanny McPhee Returns

Spoonfuls of Sugar: Nanny McPhee Returns is a bright, silly kindergarten comedy with a lesson.

By MaryAnn Johanson
POSTED // Aug 20,2010 - Isabel Green (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is a frazzled mom, and her young children (Asa Butterfield, Lil Woods and Oscar Steer) are a handful ...

Film Reviews

The Expendables

Bad Shakespeare: The bad-ass cast of The Expendables sells it—if only just barely.

By MaryAnn Johanson
POSTED // Aug 13,2010 - “Bad Shakespeare,” one badass notes with a sad shake of his head. It’s the perfect phrase for the manly male melodrama that passes for character here ...

Film Reviews

Salt

Tasty Spy Stuff: Salt is pure, dumb summer-movie fun.

By MaryAnn Johanson
POSTED // Jul 23,2010 - "Angelina Jolie is a Russian spy! Or maybe not!" I know Hollywood is creatively bankrupt, but c'mon ...

Film Reviews

I Am Love

I Am Woman, Hear Me Whimper: I Am Love is ravishingly pretty, melodramatic crap.

By MaryAnn Johanson
POSTED // Jul 2,2010 - Tilda Swinton, playing the matriarch of a ridiculously wealthy Milan family, has sex with a man who is not her husband ... and she likes it ...

DVDs

16 Villainous Oil Company Movies

Black Crude, Black Moo: Anger at the Gulf oil catastrophe isn’t mellowed by movies about petro-malevolence.

By MaryAnn Johanson
POSTED // Jun 28,2010 - Blowout preventer—that sounds pretty good right about now. Not for the crack at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico that’s spewing oil, but for me ...

Film Reviews

Robin Hood

We Wuz Robbed: Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood can’t deliver promise of a story behind the legend.

By MaryAnn Johanson
POSTED // May 12,2010 - How can it be that my geeky little heart has been ripped from my chest and my geeky little soul crushed underfoot like so much spilled popcorn on the floor of the multiplex?

DVDs

Super Actors Make Super Heroes

The performers behind the masks make comic-book movies soar.

By MaryAnn Johanson
POSTED // May 12,2010 - Explosions! Super-powered fisticuffs! Cool sci-fi gadgets! Caped flight! That’s all the appeal of comic-book action movies is about—right? Everyone knows that. Don’t they?

Film Reviews

A Prophet

Criminal Education: A Prophet tells a bitter, riveting prison story.

By MaryAnn Johanson
POSTED // Mar 31,2010 - We never learn why 19-year-old Malik (newcomer Tahar Rahim) has been sentenced to six years in a French prison ...

DVDs

Roku streams movies to your TV

Stream On: Roku, Netflix and Amazon present the brave new world of movies delivered straight to your TV.

By MaryAnn Johanson
POSTED // Mar 24,2010 - I've been a Roku user for almost a year, and it's edging so darn close to my dream— and I love it so much—that once in a while, I get frustrated that it isn't actually closer...

Film Reviews

Green Zone

Mass Distraction: Hollywood-washed Green Zone refuses to name actual villains.

By MaryAnn Johanson
POSTED // Mar 10,2010 - Spoiler alert! Jason Bourne does not find the WMDs in Iraq. Sorry to ruin Green Zone for you, but surely already CNN did that years ago ...
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