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A review of the overly childish family comedy Diary of a Wimpy Kid. This is part ten in Regal Entertainment's Summer Movie Express.A review of the overly childish family comedy Diary of a Wimpy Kid. This is part ten... more
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Is the original just as good as the remake? Brett and Ellen review Matt Reeves' new, American version of the Swedish vampire novel and film, "Let The Right One In."
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Go to http://current.com/infomania for more, and make sure to check out our Facebook profile for special features at http://facebook.com/infomania.Is the original just as good as the remake? Brett and Ellen review Matt Reeves'... more
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Can a copy be great art? Can a well made replication be considered as important as an original? Is innovation as important as invention? These were some of the questions that ran through my head as I watched Matt Reeves latest, Let Me In. Find out the answers after the jump.Can a copy be great art? Can a well made replication be considered as important as an... more
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A review for the horror film Let Me In, which is a remake of the 2008 film Let the Right One In and is directed by Cloverfield director Matt Reeves.A review for the horror film Let Me In, which is a remake of the 2008 film Let the... more
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Fans of the revered 2008 Swedish vampire film Let the Right One In were not universally enthused about last year’s announcement that an American remake was in the works. Nor were they reassured to learn that Matt Reeves – the Cloverfield guy! – had been chosen to direct it.
So it’s a relief to find that Reeves has done a smart and respectful adaptation of the earlier movie, carefully replicating its formal restraint and its chilly, muted tone. There’s a new character or two, and some unobjectionable new narrative touches; and there’s also a bit more blood, and quite a bit more action – which, as it turns out, is entirely fine.
So here we are once again – not in the snowy suburbs of Stockholm this time, but in a snowy suburb of Los Alamos, New Mexico. And once again we find a lonely 12-year-old boy, here called Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee, of The Road), peering out the window of his mother’s apartment one chilly night when a barefoot girl arrives outside, accompanied by much baggage and a bedraggled man, presumably her father. These are Owen’s new next-door neighbors…maybe he and the girl can be friends (she later turns out to be 12, too). Owen could use a friend. His parents are divorcing, his mom’s a drinker, and at school a hulking bully named Kenny (Dylan Minnette) makes his life an every-damn-day Hell.
Of course the girl, Abby (Chloë Grace Moretz), isn’t at all what Owen might imagine. As we see, in a succession of scenes taken directly from the original movie, she’s just as lonely as Owen, but a lot stranger. “Just so you know,” she says, when they first meet in a snowy courtyard, “I can’t be your friend. That’s just the way it is.” We soon understand why.
Abby is an ancient vampire, condemned to be 12 years old and friendless herself forever. The unnamed man with whom she lives (played by the invaluable Richard Jenkins) isn’t her father, he’s her slave, dispatched on nightly rounds to create fresh corpses and return home with their blood in a jug for Abby to drink. When he fails in one of these missions, Abby is forced to leave their apartment, with its blocked-out windows, and forage for herself. Thanks to the movie’s muted tone, and its minimalist score of discreet, sighing strings, the scene in which Abby waylays an unsuspecting passerby in a dark tunnel is just as much of a shock here as it was in the Swedish film. As is the famous sequence from the original movie, set in a school swimming pool, in which Kenny and his fellow bullies finally get theirs, in a spectacular way.
Reeves injects some fresh tension into the story by way of a new character – a suspicious cop played by Elias Koteas – and a nailbiting new sequence in which an attempted carjacking of an intended victim goes terribly wrong. Like Tomas Alfredson, the first film’s director, he doesn’t venture all the way into the black depths of the 2004 Swedish novel on which both movies are based – the book’s elements of pedophilia and child mutilation would never play on film. Fortunately, the story offers much more to work with, and Reeves, like Alfredson before him, makes the most of it.
The director has also been fortunate in his choice of leads. Moretz doesn’t have the dark eeriness of Lina Leandersson, who played the girl in Let the Right One In, but she’s a precociously skilful actress and she brings a more relatable substance to the role. Similarly, Smit-McPhee, with his watchful eyes and wounded demeanor, adds more emotional layers to the boy than Kåre Hedebrant was able to do in the original.
The story, of course -- an intimate examination of young love and loneliness, and of a deep yearning that can never be quenched (or so it seems) -- retains its hypnotic appeal. Anyone unfamiliar with the Swedish movie should find this one to be among the year’s better pictures – certainly leagues ahead of anything to be found so far in the Twilight franchise. Those who have seen the earlier film, however, will realize that the unexpected discovery of its dark charm is a pleasure that’s unrepeatable. At the end of this high-quality remake, so faithful in mood and structure to the original, and so sleekly crafted, they may be left wondering: What was the point?
Fans of the revered 2008 Swedish vampire film Let the Right One In were not... more
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Sitting down to watch Matthew Vaughn's Kick-Ass for the second time was in some ways better than watching it the first time.
http://www.thefilmcynics.com/blog/?p=4553Sitting down to watch Matthew Vaughn's Kick-Ass for the second time was in some... more
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This week's Rotten Tomatoes reviews Kick-Ass, Death at a Funeral, and The Joneses. Plus, we run down the Top 5 Alternative Energy Sources in Movies and Brooke Shields stops in to tell us about her Five Favorite Films.
The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a movie review show that airs on Thursday nights at 10:30 e/p on Current TV. From reviews of the newest releases to commentary on cult favorites and movie trends, each episode of The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a fast-paced, comedic journey through the week in cinema.
For more from the Rotten Tomatoes Show: http://rottentomatoesshow.comThis week's Rotten Tomatoes reviews Kick-Ass, Death at a Funeral, and The... more
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Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox join forces with bloggers, comedians, students and citizen critics to review "Kick-Ass."
The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a movie review show that airs on Thursday nights at 10:30 e/p on Current TV. From reviews of the newest releases to commentary on cult favorites and movie trends, each episode of The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a fast-paced, comedic journey through the week in cinema.
For more from the Rotten Tomatoes Show: http://rottentomatoesshow.comBrett Erlich and Ellen Fox join forces with bloggers, comedians, students and citizen... more
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Edgy, bloody, potty-mouthed: Ain’t that a ‘Kick-Ass’ film
By Scott Bowles
USA TODAY
LOS ANGELES — Like any red-blooded comic book movie, Kick-Ass comes with the requisite fixtures: secret identities, capes and masks, arch villains.
“Kick Ass” Movie Review…Trailer…”Kid” Superheros, Violence & The “C” Word!…VIDEO...http://current.com/news/92383912_dana-white-says-champ-anderson-silva-will-be-cut-if-he-repeats-ufc-112-performance-video.htm
What separates this from, say, a Batman or Spider-Man, is that these superheroes — many of them children — are shot, stabbed, hit by cars and launched off buildings. And they drop epithets like longshoremen.Edgy, bloody, potty-mouthed: Ain’t that a ‘Kick-Ass’ film
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The rain didn’t spoil anyone’s fun, and HeyUGuys took their spot on the red carpet to interview all the cast and creative minds behind what it sure to be one of the biggest hits of the year.
We spoke to Kick-Ass himself, Aaron Johnson, he was joined by Hit-Girl Chloe Moretz and, completing the crime fighting trio, Christopher Mintz-Plasse were all on great form and were joined by Mark Strong who charmed the crowds and took the time to answer our questions.The rain didn’t spoil anyone’s fun, and HeyUGuys took their spot on the... more
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