A new spin on the disease of the week Lifetime movie has been scripted by Jeremy Leven and Nick Cassavetes (based on the best-selling novel by Jodi Picoult) in My Sister’s Keeper. Instead of just tossing about how a family copes with a sick or dying loved one, this adds in a twist of also having a genetically engineered child whose sole purpose is to donate organs to help the ailing sibling.
More importantly, the film tackles how the family copes when said donator sibling decides she no longer wants to be harvested for body parts. That’s the situation Anna Fitzgerald (Abigail Breslin) finds herself in — for 11 years she’s been prodded and poked, all for the grand purpose of keeping her cancer-stricken older sister Kate (Sofia Vassilieva) alive. But when she’s asked to donate a kidney, she’s had enough. She instead seeks counsel ...
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Movie Review: The Hangover (2009) »
Critical Critic: General Disdain | Published on: June 23, 2009
Filed under: Comedy | 1 Comment
I was recently invited to fly out to Las Vegas in September to join 20 or so guys for a weekend bachelor party. I declined, recalling that the last time I went out west to Sin City, I “misplaced” five hours of my life (people I was drinking with said I was quite the sight to see at 4:00 AM). But thanks to the writers of The Hangover, Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, I am now confident I know what will be transpiring, without having to go. More importantly, I also get to avoid all the guilt.
Not having learned their lessons yet, Stu (Ed Helms), Phil (Bradley Cooper) and Alan (Zach Galifianakis), decide to take their best bud Doug (Justin Bartha) out for a night of debauchery before his wedding. Little do any of them know, what starts out with a toast, ends with them being ...
Movie Review: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) »
Critical Critic: ENigma | Published on: June 21, 2009
Filed under: Science Fiction, Action/Adventure | 15 Comments
After months of hype, Transfomers: Revenge of the Fallen, the mother of all summer blockbusters is finally here and my does it arrive with a bang. Bigger, louder and more in your face than its predecessor Transformers, Michael Bay is true to his word, as he serves up some ass kicking robots.
As the title partially alludes to, the Decepticons are desperately try to search for a way to resurrect their fallen leader Megatron, and the Autobots, working together alongside the humans (in an organization called NEST), are trying to eradicate their weakened enemy. For good measure, we also get to learn about the origins of the Transformers. Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) is off to college, leaving his loyal friend and protector Bumblebee (known affectionately as Bee) and girlfriend Micheala (Megan Fox) behind. However, all does not go smoothly and he is soon sought out by the Decepticons ...Movie Review: Miss March (2009) »
Critical Critic: General Disdain | Published on: June 13, 2009
Filed under: Comedy | 2 Comments
Yes, I know I’m several months late with my review of Miss March. No matter, for all it’s worth the movie could have just as easily been titled Miss June. Actually, now that I’m finally writing this, it should have been called Miss-ed Opportunity — what could have been a raunch filled teen sex comedy turned out to be a weak rendition of Teen Wolf crossed with Sex Drive. Even having the Playboy brand prominently appended to it couldn’t help.
The cause? First timers, Zach Cregger and Trevor Moore wore three hats too many — writer, director and actor. That’s right, for those reading into that sentence, even if they wore one hat, it would have probably been one too many. The characters they’ve written and portray are simple caricatures of Stiles and Scott with less interesting things to say. Trevor is ...
