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A train wreck of a movie

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.

August 8th, 2009

“G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra” can best be described as a wall of noise and sound for people who like to bang their heads into walls, transporting a team of Joes from a green-screen Sahara Desert to a green-screen underwater base to a green-screen North Pole to, well, it doesn’t even matter.

The wizard series goes film noir

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

July 24th, 2009

Hogwarts has never looked so menacing. David Yates borrows a film noir aesthetic for “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”, the darkest installment of the billion-dollar Warner Bros. franchise.

At the edge: Digital 3D projection and ticket sales

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.

July 3rd, 2009

In geological time, the digital 3D projection of “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs” comes hot on the heels of other gimmicks like sound (1927), color (1929) and widescreen (1953). Is movie attendance falling yet again?

An onslaught of children's literature adaptations

Inkheart.

May 22nd, 2009

The success of “Harry Potter” inspires the sincerest form of flattery. “Inkheart” has the bad luck to be turned into a film at the tail end of a decade stuffed with adaptations of children’s fantasy literature.

Young stars, just like the old stars, about to go supernova

Star Trek.

May 10th, 2009

“Star Trek” meekly goes where every blockbuster picture has gone before—it’s a blow-stuff-up, blow-up doll, shrink-wrapped piece of entertainment.

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