'Law Abiding Citizen': vigilante thriller, minus the humanity
By Roger Moore The Orlando Sentinel
Law Abiding Citizen is a glib, brutal and preposterous revenge fantasy, a take-the-law-into-your-own-hands rabble-rouser that taps into a lot of fears and genuine gripes about the American legal system.
'Bright Star': A glowing love story
By Roger Moore The Orlando Sentinel
John Keats' life, love and death make him a romantic cliché and a fine subject for a period romance in Bright Star.
'Couples Retreat': Bora boring
By Roger Moore The Orlando Sentinel
Couples Retreat was made because of its sunny, sandy location: scenic Bora Bora. Judging from the light, cast members slept late and took it pretty easy, even in the "We rise at dawn" scenes.
'It Might Get Loud': Play-and-tell documentary is a smash
By Roger Moore The Orlando Sentinel
The conceit is simple enough. Round up three generations of famous rock guitarists, use home movies, visits to their old stomping grounds and concert footage to tell their stories, then put them in a room together to see what happens. It Might Get Loud? Good guess.
Family reviews: 'Couples Retreat,' 'Bright Star,' 'It Might Get Loud'
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'The Invention of Lying': honest effort at thoughtful comedy
By Roger Moore The Orlando Sentinel
Brit comic Ricky Gervais stakes a serious claim to the title "the British Albert Brooks" with The Invention of Lying, his droll, witty and thoughtful comedy about the thing that really makes the world go round.
'Zombieland': Laughing at the undead
By Roger Moore The Orlando Sentinel
In the months after the zombie apocalypse, brought on by a virulent mutation of mad cow disease, America has ceased to be.
'Whip it': Elbows fly, and so do laughs
By Roger Moore The Orlando Sentinel
Drew Barrymore's directing debut, Whip It, is a nostalgic follow-your-bliss coming-of-age comedy. The big screen's queen of quirky cool passes the baton to the New Drew, Ellen Page, in a role that Barrymore might have once taken herself.
'Capitalism: A Love Story': Michael Moore hits his target
By Roger Moore The Orlando Sentinel
With Capitalism: A Love Story, Michael Moore brings it all back to Roger & Me, his 1989 essay/documentary that started it all. That cautionary jeremiad about the export of American jobs overseas, and power and money from "We the People" to Wall Street, is the warning at the start and the exclamation point at the end of Capitalism. And Moore being Moore, he can't resist a bit of "I told you so."
Toying with nostalgia
By Roger Moore The Orlando Sentinel
Converting Pixar's history-changing cartoons Toy Story (1995) and Toy Story 2 (1999) into 3D and pairing them, in theaters, for a double feature reminds us how very good these movies were and remain, how great the computer animation is, and how witty and sentimental the scripts are.
Family reviews: 'Whip It'
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New 'Fame' isn't the same
By Melena Ryzik New York Times News Service
NEW YORK — Fame, the remake, bears 10 story lines, five complicated musical numbers and the mantle of trying to recharge a franchise that spawned a TV series, a musical and countless copycat renditions of its Oscar-winning theme song ("Fame! I'm gonna live forever! I'm going to learn how to fly!").
Kentucky Theatre to host international film fest
Herald-Leader Staff Report
The Kentucky Theatre will present Global Lens, a 6-year-old showcase of international filmmaking, from Oct. 2 to 7.
'My One and Only': Enjoyably quaint
By Roger Moore The Orlando Sentinel
My One and Only is a pleasant little time killer of a coming-of-age comedy, a period piece built around the early life of Hollywood never-quite-a-star George Hamilton. Anything you know about the eternally tan, eternally debonair "face" he became will add to your enjoyment of this (apparently) true tall tale of his youth.
