Another dose of foam-rubber animation, rapacious capitalism, mainstream hipness, and coy vulgarity ("It looks like we're up Chocolate Creek without a popsicle stick"). Viewers of the forerunner will know what they are in for, and will have only themselves to blame. One new character, Puss 'n Boots, is well drawn …
Another dose of foam-rubber animation, rapacious capitalism, mainstream hipness, and coy vulgarity ("It looks like we're up Chocolate Creek without a popsicle stick"). Viewers of the forerunner will know what they are in for, and will have only themselves to blame. One new character, Puss 'n Boots, is well drawn …
Only for promotional purposes, on posters and billboards and elsewhere, was the fourth installment in the Shrek franchise called The Final Chapter. The promise in that title would have been the best thing about the movie, if such a promise could be trusted from one manifestly committed to continuation rather …
Spain’s wizard of chic effrontery, Pedro Almodóvar, again wraps his elegant style around desperate, sexy, ruthless people. But there isn’t the motor of female emotion (and perverse fun) that the gay director often finds in his leading women. Instead, Antonio Banderas is a statuesque plastic surgeon who uses a lithe …
Ever been on a 90-minute sugar high? Ever wondered what you would do if you managed to steal a magic book that allowed you to rewrite reality? Ever considered the metaphysical implications of writing "The End" on a page in said book? Ever wondered what lovable cartoon sea sponge Spongebob …
The surprise success of the first Spy Kids has meant more money for the followup, more computer animation in particular. More money, more mess. Steve Buscemi ("I'm no loon") shows up too late and too little to save the day. With Alexa Vega, Daryl Sabara, Antonio Banderas, and Carla Gugino; …
Inspirational pablum, "inspired," to begin with, "by a true story," that of Pierre Dulaine (played by that loverly Latin, Antonio Banderas), who volunteers to bring his courtly Old World manners and his ballroom dance steps into Detention Hall at a rough New York high school: Mad Hot Ballroom meets Blackboard …
Courtship via the method laid out in that most respected S&M; manual, The Collector -- of imprisonment-until-capitulation. The suitor is fresh out of a mental institution, with a haircut to prove it, and his selected dreamgirl is an actress in a grade-B horror film -- of which the set and …
Woody Allen back in England, plugging away in the manner of his endless autumn: unpretentious, unpressured, unpolished, just a kernel of an idea, thin on jokes and one-liners, fortunate still to find funding, free to do and to be. With little deliberation, he choreographs a dance of discontent and delusion …