This holiday star-fest is a cute little cupcake of a movie, light and frilly-looking, with just enough icing to leave a sweet taste (or be sickening, if one doesn’t care for so much Hollywood icing). This is the second of […]
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Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol ✰ ✰ ✰
Long-time Filmbobbery readers may recall that I have not been a big fan of the Mission: Impossible film franchise with Tom Cruise. I even wrote a diatribe about the first two films in my fourth issue, titled “Missions Ridiculous.” Well, that tide […]
Continue reading »Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) ✰ ✰ ½
The second of Guy Ritchie’s “Sherlock Holmes” adventures is, on the whole, about the same as the first. Its story is darker than the first, pushing the brilliant but eccentric private detective (before there was such a thing) across Europe […]
Continue reading »Hugo (2011) ✰ ✰ ✰
I have to admit that Martin Scorsese — considered by many to be one of the greatest directors of the past quarter-century — has never been one of my personal favorites. I generally like his movies, but I rarely love […]
Continue reading »The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (2011) ✰ ✰
Although I have enjoyed and given good reviews to a couple of the Twilight films in recent years, I was bored by Breaking Dawn, Part 1. It is so slowly paced, with so little significant action or plot development, that I […]
Continue reading »My Week with Marilyn (2011) ✰ ✰ ✰
Though I have no way to support this thesis, I believe that most people, especially younger audiences, are aware of Marilyn Monroe primarily through her fame — and have never seen her movies. Other than Some Like it Hot, and […]
Continue reading »The Descendants (2011) ✰ ✰ ✰
This low-key feature, set in Hawaii, is a fairly rich character study. George Clooney stars as a businessman whose wife has had a boating accident and lies in a coma. His young daughters are too much for him to handle […]
Continue reading »Tower Heist (2011) ✰ ✰ ½
Caper movies have been popular for better than half a century now, and show no sign of slowing down. Sooner or later virtually everyone in Hollywood makes one. Caper movies are (supposed to be) fun, clever spits-in-the-eye to authority groups […]
Continue reading »J. Edgar (2011) ✰ ✰
Few Americans have led lives as influential or controversial as the longtime director of the F.B.I, J. Edgar Hoover. Why is it then that no one can seem to make a decent movie about the man? Clint Eastwood is the […]
Continue reading »Puss in Boots (2011) ✰ ✰ ✰
I enjoyed but never loved the Shrek films, and my favorite characters were the supporting ones used for comic relief: Donkey, and Puss in Boots. I think it’s great that Puss gets his own movie. The more cat movies the better, […]
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