Marion Cotillard won the Academy Award, the Cesar Award, the BAFTA Award, and countless others for her portrayal of French diva Edith Piaf (Piaf means “Sparrow” in French). Her nickname and her voice are icons in France. Olivier Dahan has directed the life of the chanteuse in a very cinematic yet confusing way. Dahan switches [...]
An Almost Perfect Fit: Review for "27 Dresses"
The new film with Hollywood’s it girl, Katherine Heigl (Knocked Up, TV’s Grey’s Anatomy), is a cute and bubble movie about a girl who loves weddings. Jane is always a bridesmaid and never a bride. She has been a bridesmaid twenty-seven times and has the ridiculous looking dresses to prove it. She has been been [...]
Murder Is E-asy: Review for "Untraceable"
Untraceable is one of the newest in the “torture porn” collection; which includes gruesomely graphic films as the Saw movies, The Hills Have Eyes remake, and the Hostel movies. FBI agent Jenifer Marsh (Diane Lane) tracks down the crimes that are committed on the World Wide Web. She finds this new website called killwithme.com (it’s [...]
Footballers’ Lives: Review for "Leatherheads"
Set in prohibition era 1925, Leatherheads stars two of the biggest stars in Hollywood: Renee Zellweger and George Clooney. It also stars John Krasinski, whom you may know from NBC’s The Office. Clooney plays a pro football player, Dodge Connelly, during an age where pro football had no rules and almost no audience. The public’s [...]
Pitch Problem: Review for "Alvin and the Chipmunks"
In Alvin and the Chipmunks, Jason Lee (TV’s My Name Is Earl) stars as Dave Seville, a down on his luck singer-songwriter trying to make it big in the music biz. The head of the company, Ian Hawke (David Cross), is a particularly cruel and manipulative guy. A guy who would personify evil (evil as [...]
