House at the End of the Street has hit theaters well after star Jennifer Lawrence has rocketed into the A-list category thanks in large part to The Hunger Games. And it’s a good thing too, as House remains a dud pretty much from start to finish, with little tension, character or originality.
Welcome to Rumor Has It, Player Affinity’s roundup of huge movie rumors. On this week’s docket, we have rumors about the next Batman movie, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the X-Men franchise, and more.
From conflicts of duty and heart like Brooklyn’s Finest to police morality tales such as the now-infamous Training Day over to classics like Serpico, no film to chronicle the day-to-day lives and misadventures of our men and women in blue has come off quite as authentic as End of Watch.
Trouble with the Curve is a no-frills tale about father-daughter bonding, and while it’ll warm your heart, it’s damn near impossible in hindsight to single out an aspect of the film that’s better than merely adequate.
It is going to be a titanic battle for the top of the box-office this weekend: there are five major competitors in wide release and something will have to fall by the wayside. The cop thriller End of Watch has an excellent critical reaction, Dredd 3D has the edge of a 3D release and Clint Eastwood’s Trouble at the Curve has the widest release. And our Pick of the Week is …
Stop! In the name of the law…s of quality cinema! Cop flicks and police procedurals are a criminally (no pun intended) undervalued and mistreated segment of the overarching crime genre and usually surface only as a regurgitation of clichés and embarrassing genre tropes.
Although a little heavy-handed at times, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is one of the year’s most earnest and endearing motion pictures with just the right amount of nostalgia and a star-making, Oscar-worthy performance from leading man Logan Lerman.
