The Words Review
The Words moves at a glacial pace. It’s overwritten and the stately score and incredibly formal look make the entire exercise feel almost inhuman. Basically, the film needed to be more dynamic, even a bit messier.
The Words moves at a glacial pace. It’s overwritten and the stately score and incredibly formal look make the entire exercise feel almost inhuman. Basically, the film needed to be more dynamic, even a bit messier.
Though comparisons to Bridesmaids are inevitable, Leslye Headland’s Bachelorette is much darker and, ultimately, funnier than 2011’s breakout comedy hit. Its characters are incredibly dislikable, and its script is full of mean-spirited surprises, but it has guts and definitely will make you laugh.
Do you like video games? Do you like movies? Can’t understand why Hollywood can’t put two and two together? We neither. That’s what prompted Let’s Play Movies, a new biweekly feature that discusses the cinematic potential of your favorite games and what should be done to maximize it. This week, I’m focusing on the Uncharted series.
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire has added Jeffrey Wright to its cast. He’ll play the role of electronics expert Beetee. Lionsgate initially hoped that Tony Shalhoub would play this part in Francis Lawrence’s Hunger Games sequel, but apparently negotiations didn’t work out.
Because movies ultimately start with a writer, it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that some of the best screenwriters — as well as some terrible ones — love injecting their own craft into a screenplay. Here are our 10 favorite movies about writer’s block, in honor of The Words (out this weekend).
With lower theater counts for The Words and The Cold Light of Day, you might want to check out something you might have missed in August instead, or explore some independent alternatives. If that doesn’t do it for you, guess which adventuring professor is on the big screen again, and in IMAX?
The Cold Light of Day is a hamstrung, nearly farcical wannabe-thriller that proceeds to insult its viewers with tepid action, leaps in logic and at more than one instance plot developments that border on incomprehensible.
