In an era where all that seems to thrive in cinematic features are teenage-vampire heartthrobs, alien-robotic cars, and spandex-wearing superheroes, a new genre that makes audience squeal and laugh must surface. The only fresh genre that can successfully do this is the zombie-comedy genre, originally sparked by the "Dawn of the Dead" parody and "Shaun of the Dead" but has since been left undone. "Zombieland" has staked territory and turned the spark from those frontrunner films into a raging fire.
In Director Jonathon Mostow's "Surrogates," 98 percent of humans live an immortal existence as remote controlled robots transmit the thrills and absorb the pain of physical life. Every aspect of Mostow's film is a dramatic portrayal of a world where people merge with robotic net-imbedded society. The result is a compelling yet entertaining science fiction plot with an aftertaste of unusual moral complexity.
Perhaps there have been too many films that merge a romantic comedy into a drama without substance. Yet beneath mediocre layers of love story in director Brandon Camp's "Love Happens" lies heart; the actors openly and truthfully address the reality of grief. A-list actors Aaron Eckhart and Jennifer Aniston star in this cheeky, bordering unoriginal film. Despite the familiar formulaic plot, the tender Eckhart engenders the grace to carry this uplifting narrative.
Charged with telling the curious story of Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon), an executive of chemical company ADM turned FBI informant, director Steven Soderbergh has crafted an exceptionally odd film. �The Informant!� feels more like an ill-humored but ironic 70s sitcom that manages to be a more effective look into Whitacre�s mind than a serious drama would have been.
Any day now, an animated motion picture filled with a talking monkey, spray on shoes, a vicious herd of rat-birds, and some seriously strange weather, will be falling out of the sky into a theater near you. In an attempt to remake a children's book for the big screen, directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller successfully turn Judi Barrett's "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" into a delicious 3D animation film. "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" leaves audiences of all ages with full stomachs and opened imaginations.
American author Dorothy Parker said, "The only 'ism' Hollywood believes in is plagiarism." In their new animated feature "9," producers Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov are guilty of reusing stale ideas. But in spite of a tired plot, "9" is entrancing due to its realistic computer graphic animation.
Viewers will no longer mock those involved in the fashion industry after watching "The September Issue," a new documentary release which provides a comical, yet informative look into the production of Vogue Magazine's largest issue of the year.
Tyler Perry is famous for his religious comedy-dramas, panned by critics but successful at the box-office. With his new movie, "I Can Do Bad All By Myself," Perry stays true to style in an entertaining but ultimately formulaic morality tale.
Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor's newest project "Gamer" is a combination of violent action, frequent nudity, and a corrupted world, but what it lacks in storyline, it makes up for in first-rate filming.
Director Michael Judge has generally had success with his directing projects ranging from "Office Space" to "Beevis and Butt-Head." But his latest movie "Extract," fails to capture the humor and wittiness his past movies possessed. With an all-star cast including Ben Affleck, Jason Bateman and Mila Kunis, "Extract" was poised to be the summer's last big comedy.
Boredom is a curse that is disconcerting and affects high percentages of Americans everyday day. "Extract” shows a man's struggle to eliminate as much dullness from his life as much as possible, no matter how negatively it affects him. Director Michael Judge and man behind the "Office Space" and "Beavis and Butt-Head" is able to manage this scenario with a fairly executed comedic twist.
Bringing together comedic veterans Sandra Bullock and Bradley Cooper to execute a worthy comedy seems simple for the dynamic duo; however, the sparse laughs amongst the poor screenplay can hardly cover the fact that the feeble characters in this film are hardly more suitable for the actors than Bullock's new shaggy blonde 'do.
When people think of a film set in World War II, they usually expect an accurate depiction of troubling times in history. This preconceived notion is thrown in the trash in Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds," which brings an altered reality to the events of Nazi-occupied France that some will love and others will merely find gruesome.
In a summer ruled by robots, wizards and high-tech guinea pigs emerge two unfamiliar, yet terrifically entertaining characters - cooks. "Julie & Julia" is the charming tale of two women who share a passion for food and cooking, one becoming a household name and the other finding simple happiness in recipes for French cuisine.
Comic king Judd Apatow returns with the new film "Funny People," showing a somber, dark side of his directing fans will find unfamiliar. The critically acclaimed director made his mark with the box office hits "The 40-Year Old Virgin" and "Knocked Up."
Perhaps the most anticipated film of the summer, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" is an almost seamless blend of comedy, romance, action and magic. Director David Yates appropriately captures the dark, horrifying mood that envelops the wizarding world and leaves even those uneducated in matters of bezoars and Devil's Snare completely spellbound.
With the premiere of "Brüno" last Friday, Sasha Baron Cohen unleashed the kind of unadulterated, unrelenting comical assault that became world-known with his 2006 hit "Borat." This time parading about as a 19-year-old Austrian man in search of fame, Cohen turns up the gas to a point where you think he can't go any farther, and then hits it again.
Dinosaurs during the ice age? Such an unfathomable idea is brought to life by director Carlos Saldanha in the third installment of 20th Century Fox's adventurous prehistoric franchise, "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs." The quirky herd is back for another lunatic adventure.
When it comes to summer movies, fans tend to value high speed and high explosives over moral insight and character development. Accordingly, an action film about an infamous Depression-era bank robber starring Johnny Depp, Marion Cotillard and Christian Bale should seemingly enthrall summer masses.
Director Michael Bay has done it again, connecting action and romance to bring on a film that screams heroic adventures. In the first "Transformers" movie, Sam Witwicky gets involved in the dangerous war between two groups of alien robots. Now, the war continues.
The remnants of a night in Las Vegas: a trashed hotel room, someone else's baby, Mike Tyson's tiger and a splitting headache. Only in Vegas can a well-respected dentist get married to a stripper and have no memory of it.
Take "The Simpsons" humor, add gorgeous Grecian scenery and awkwardly arranged life lessons and "My Life in Ruins" comes to life. It's a simple formula, but in need of a commanding plot to string the parts together.
Pixar soars to new heights with the release of "Up," an animated masterpiece that speaks to the redemptive power of love as a means to cope with loss and hardship. Director Pete Doctor ("Monsters, Inc.") delivers a gripping narrative that comes to life with vivid 3-D imagery.
It's hard to know where "Terminator Salvation" falls on post-apocalyptic man versus highly-intelligent machines movie spectrum. On one hand (in this case it would be a sturdy metal appendage), this flick capitalizes on the advancements in Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI) technology and brilliantly uses them to depict an ominous planet earth that is being terrorized by robots. On the other hand, though, its sloppy plot, pointless characters and melodramatic script drag the movie down to mediocrity.
It only took an action-packed, thrilling, superhero-infused movie titled "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" to usher in the film fanaticism that will occur from the rest of May until August as the summer blockbuster season skyrockets at full speed.
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