Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Michael Douglas returns as Gordon Gekko, the role that won him an Oscar, in the cumbersomely titled sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. The film opens in 2001 as Gekko is being released from prison having completed an 8-year sentence for the insider trading scandal from the first film. As he reenters the world, abandoned […]
Roger Qbert Reviews “The Virginity Hit”
If you ever watched a Judd Apatow film (Superbad, Knocked Up, The 40 Year Old Virgin) and thought how much you’d enjoy it if it weren’t for all that pesky wit and charm, then have I got a movie for you. The Virginity Hit follows the exploits of a group of high school seniors led […]
Roger Qbert Reviews “The Town”
Ben Affleck follows up Gone Baby Gone, his unexpectedly adept directorial debut, with another crime drama set against the backdrop of his hometown. Charlestown (aka The Town) is a Bostonian neighborhood which has produced more armored car and bank robbers than any other town in America. (A plot point that is surprisingly true.) In the […]
Roger Qbert Reviews “Easy A”
Olive (Emma Stone) is a high school student and a good girl. So much so that her guidance counselor doesn’t even know her name. Why would she? Olive is polite, gets good grades and stays out of trouble. But all that comes crashing down around her when, in an effort to appease her best friend’s […]
The Switch
Jason Bateman and Jennifer Aniston star The Switch, Hollywood’s latest attempt to revive the flagging romantic-comedy genre. With the exception of (500) Days of Summer, it is a formula that has been sorely lacking the last few years; relying increasing on wacky high-concept premises (“She’s the city’s first female firefighter; he’s an arsonist with a […]
Roger Qbert Reviews “Eat Pray Love”
Julia Roberts returns to headlining films with Eat, Pray, Love. Roberts plays Liz Gilbert, a travel writer “trapped” in an unhappy marriage. And by “trapped” I mean “they have no children and she makes all the money.” Throwing off the shackles of her oppression, Gilbert leaves her husband and takes up with David (James Franco), […]
Roger Qbert Reviews “Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World”
Every generation seems to have that one defining film – a picture about disaffected youth discovering not just the nature of love but the nature of relationships. Granted, these films’ heroes (and make no mistake, they’re always heroes; never heroines) have varying degrees of “disaffectedness” but they all tell essentially the same story: an alienated […]
The Other Guys
Will Ferrell and Adam McKay (director of and writing partner on films like Step Brothers an Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy) reunite for The Other Guys, a high-octane send-up of the buddy-cop genre. Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg play Allen Gamble and Terry Hoitz, detectives relegated to desk duty while glory-hog, super-cops Highsmith and Danson […]
Roger Qbert Reviews “Dinner For Schmucks” Starring Steve Carell and Paul Rudd
Based on a French film (has that ever worked?) Dinner for Schmucks stars Paul Rudd as Tim, an upwardly mobile businessman who finds himself at a career crossroads when his boss invites him to partake in a secret tradition he calls a “dinner for idiots.” It’s a regularly scheduled event in which Tim’s boss and […]
