”˜Fatherhood’ Review: A Sweet, Albeit Formulaic, Father-Daughter Dramedy
Fatherhood is a sweet, heartfelt, and predictable movie with some PG-rated Kevin Hart humour.
Paul Weitz
Bel Canto Review
Director Paul Weitz' hostage drama Bel Canto dares to ask questions with no easy answers. It's a film with no place for black and white thinking.
Admission Review
Admission might be high minded fluff, but with the talents of Tina Fey, Paul Rudd, and a great supporting cast, it's some of the best fluff one could hope for.
This Week in DVD: 7/17/12
This week on DVD and Blu-Ray, takes on Mel Gibson in Get the Gringo , Lockout, Friends With Kids, Being Flynn A Bag of Hammers, and the fourth season of TV's Sanctuary , while Phil Brown sinks into American Reunion, Silent House , and Bobcat Golthwait's God Bless America .
The New Old: Boys, Men, Aliens, and Gremlins
Lots of talk about boys and men this week as Brandon Bastaldo takes a look at the coming of age tale La Haine , looks at the Quebecois hockey comedy Les Boys II , and Phil Brown looks at Men in Black, About a Boy, and the almost childlike inhibition of Gremlins 2: The New Batch .
Being Flynn Review
Paul Weitz’s Being Flynn is a tonally muddled and confused little movie, but ultimately an interesting one. It wants to be a dark and morally ambiguous slice of urban misery with a redemptive core, yet it never quite achieves that somewhat counterintuitive mash up. However, there are enough interesting ideas and a handful of solid performances (including a long awaited return to form for Robert DeNiro) that make it a hard movie to dislike.
