Posted by Jared Mobarak on June 23, 2016 · Leave a Comment
“You may not be having fun, but I am” The problem with giving a film steeped in misdirection a sequel is that the mysteries have already been uncovered. You can’t put the genie back in the bottle to achieve the same success. Now You See Me had a great magic premise wherein the theatrical audience […]
Category action/adventure, comedy, film reviews · Tags Boaz Yakin, Daniel Radcliffe, Dave Franco, Ed Solomon, Edward Ricourt, Elias Koteas, Isla Fisher, Jesse Eisenberg, Jon M. Chu, Lizzy Caplan, Mark Ruffalo, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Now You See Me, Now You See Me 2, Peter Chiarelli, Richard Laing, Woody Harrelson
Posted by Jared Mobarak on May 29, 2013 · Leave a Comment
“That’s a lot of excitement for a crime” As the characters in Louis Leterrier‘s Now You See Me love to say, the more you see the less you know. This is the line of deflection The Four Horsemen love to package as their neat and tidy rule, ignoring the constant, ever-apparent question magicians and illusionists […]
Category film reviews, suspense/thriller · Tags Boaz Yakin, Dave Franco, David Copperfield, Ed Solomon, Edward Ricourt, Isla Fisher, James Franco, Jesse Eisenberg, Louis Leterrier, Mark Ruffalo, Mélanie Laurent, Michael Caine, Michael Kelly, Morgan Freeman, Now You See Me, Woody Harrelson
Posted by Jared Mobarak on May 21, 2012 · Leave a Comment
“I see you neuralyzed another partner” There’s nothing like a lost memory trope to allow lazy screenwriters the opportunity to explain their film within the construct of its plot. Despite an inventive, tongue-in-cheek reenactment program hosted by Peter Graves about mysterious conspiracy stories ushering us back into the Men in Black universe, Robert Gordon and […]
Category action/adventure, comedy, film reviews, science fiction · Tags Barry Fanaro, Barry Sonnenfeld, Biz Markie, Doug Jones, Ed Solomon, Jack Kehler, Johnny Knoxville, Kevin Grevioux, Lara Flynn Boyle, Linda Fiorentino, Martin Klebba, Men in Black, Men in Black II, Men in Black III, Patrick Warburton, Peter Graves, Rip Torn, Robert Gordon, Rosario Dawson, Scary Movie, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Tommy Lee Jones, Tony Shalhoub, Will Smith
Posted by Jared Mobarak on May 17, 2012 · Leave a Comment
“May I ask why you felt little Tiffany had to die?” Fresh off the success of Get Shorty two years prior, director Barry Sonnenfeld‘s still young but effective career found it’s biggest hit in the rollicking science fiction comedy Men in Black. Unfortunately for him, the film also proved to be his last cinematic work […]
Category action/adventure, comedy, film reviews, science fiction · Tags Barry Sonnenfeld, Coen Brothers, Dionne Warwick, Ed Solomon, Get Shorty, Linda Fiorentino, Lowell Cunningham, Men in Black, Penny Marshall, Rip Torn, Rob Reiner, Sylvester Stallone, Tommy Lee Jones, Tony Shalhoub, Vincent D'Onofrio, Will Smith
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