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LatinoReview's blogPOSTED June, 24 2009  Let me start by saying, I don't care how much praise Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci have received for penning the overrated new Star Trek film, these guys clearly don’t know what they’re doing. Sure, they were following Michael Bay's lead while scripting this thing, yet even though he is the director, you cannot hold him entirely responsible for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’s mediocre story. Two years after the events of the first film the heroic Autobots have formed an alliance with the U.S.
POSTED June, 05 2009  Will Ferrell is an actor that I've had a love/hate relationship with. If he does a movie acting like Will Ferrell, he's just not funny. If he pretends to be another character, then his comedy works. Thankfully he doesn't dive too deep in the Will well in Universal's Land of the Lost, a completely f**king retarded but entertaining as hell picture to sit through.
POSTED May, 21 2009  Rather than beat around the bush about the history of the Terminator series and the mythology, I'm gonna get right to the point: I liked Terminator Salvation. A lot. Is it a perfect film? Absolutely not. Is it a classic summer movie? No. But I got what I wanted and that is an entertaining popcorn picture that's a step in the right direction for the Terminator franchise.
POSTED May, 07 2009  Let's face facts—Star Trek lost its steam years ago. After The Next Generation series went off the air, the franchise has been inundated with crappy films and even s***tier TV shows. Star Trek was on life support. So when J.J. Abrams announced he was doing a new version of Star Trek based on the original crew but with young actors, it breathed both a sigh of relief and a face palm to Trek fans everywhere. What could J.J. do that hasn't already been done?
POSTED May, 01 2009  X-Men Origins: Wolverine takes place before the X-Men films (and destroying any sense of a realistic timeline in doing so), tells the story of a young James Howlett (Hugh Jackman) in the 1800s running for his life with his older half brother Victor Creed (Liev Schreiber) after slaying his father. The opening sequence, which was actually pretty cool, shows the two growing up and fighting in every major war possible, from the Civil War to the Vietnam conflict.
POSTED April, 24 2009  With mixed martial arts having a surge of popularity it was only a matter of time before Hollywood started opening its whore wallet in an attempt to try and cash in on it. Fighting is the story of Shawn MacArthur (Channing Tatum) hustling for money on the streets when he comes across hustler Harvey Boarden (Terrence Howard) who gets him involved in the world of underground street fighting. Sounds like Jean-Claude Van Damme’s Lionheart, right? It pretty much is Lionheart minus the clever fight scenes and tight spandex.
POSTED April, 20 2009  Watching State of Play made me nostalgic not just for great political thrillers, but a time when films about crusading journalists where a dime a dozen. It’s a dying genre, since not only are more moviegoers willing to check their brains at the door, but front page news is overshadowed by TV and the Internet. Director Kevin McDonald has fashioned a tight film for an audience looking to choose substance over style. Leading an impressive cast is Russell Crowe, a movie star of today who like McDonald is far more interested in the old fashioned storytelling of yesteryear.
POSTED April, 03 2009  LatinoReview.com interviewed Laz Alonso live on the set of Fast & Furious. Alonso talks about working on the film franchise and shares his thoughts on playing the bad guy Fenix, who goes up against Vin Diesel and Paul Walker. Though he's put in some solid work in dramas on the stage and screen, Paul Rudd is best known as a supporting player in comedies by directors Amy Heckerling (Clueless), David Wain (Role Models) and Judd Apatow (Knocked Up). The opportunity to star in his own vehicle has been long overdue and with I Love You, Man Rudd proves it was worth the wait. Few can handle awkwardness in an appealing fashion like Rudd and he absolutely shines as Peter, a likable guy who's just asked his girlfriend Zooey (Rashida Jones) to marry him. I've never seen the original Last House on the Left; it's just one of those horror films I happened to miss growing up. So I was glad I got to go into this remake with zero expectations. Wes Craven, despite being only a producer on his own remake, does have some hits and misses on his résumé, so I wasn't sure what kind of movie I was going to get. |
