Movie Review | 'Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny': The Heavy Journey to Becoming a Rock God
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This jolly rock ÂnÂ roll comedy, sprinkled with amusing one-liners and hilarious sight gags, is a spinoff from the short-lived HBO comedy series starring Jack Black and Kyle Gass.
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I read an interview a few years back - shortly before the release of &quot;Oceanâs 11,&quot; where director Steven Soderbergh detailed his ideal heist flick.
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Arts & entertainment: A sex video and alcohol addiction almost ruined Rob Lowe's career. Here he tells Jay Rayner how he rescued his career and became a political junkie.
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Comicdom's trippiest superhero finally comes alive on the big screen.
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Debased, infantile and reckless in the extreme, this compendium of body bravado and malfunction makes for some of the most fearless, liberated and cathartic comedy in modern movies.
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If you&#39;re planning on seeing the John Travolta-Joaquin Phoenix movie &quot;Ladder 49&quot; when it premieres this weekend - take a good look at the screen.
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A documentary and a fiction film about Joy Division return a mythic hero to life size.
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How do you transpose the life of an American cultural icon who transformed American popular music into a compelling, streamlined biopic?
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In the wrestling ring, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson was always the center of attention. Now he captures the big-screen spotlight with his first dramatic leading role.
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Farhan Akhtar's Don has a mix of good and not-so-good songs.
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Not since Spinal Tap has there been a sharper satire of cinematic mythomania
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Imagine Larry Davidâs HBOâs series, âCurb Your Enthusiasm,â without the bile. Thatâs the tone of âI Want Someone to Eat Cheese With.â
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Ridley Scott and Denzel Washington provide a smooth and appealing update on the gangster-as-tragic-hero myth
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Tycho:  Heavenly Sword is, as you will soon discover, the very definition of a rental title.  Clocking in at somewhere between five and six hours (depending on your appetite for overwrought cinemas) it's a decent game saddled by impossible expectations.  It has silly ideas and grandeur in close proximity to one another.   It tries hard.  And it's not bad, by any means.  But it's not excellent, and perhaps unfairly it had this onus placed upon it.  I've said that Lair is not the Playstation 3, and nor is Heavenly Sword, but taken together one must come to the unmistakable conclusion that the Playstation 3 is a game console and not the supernatural artifact they have presented it as.  That however many processors and however many gigs of space are not especially relevant when put in the service of middling entertainment.    It has a decent combat system, and using this combat system you will progress from locked room to cramped, locked room until you come face to face with some jeering asshole.  You might kill them either because of the jeering or because you think that death might cull their interminable monologues.  There's a mean snake bitch and a pervert and an oaf.  Oh!  And en evil king.  The only thing running through my head during the lavish and no doubt expensive mo-capped cutscenes was that these kings and bitches and so forth should form a band.  It never seems to know if it wants to be a hilarious comic circus or a stark medieval saga.  Play it, and you'll know what I mean.     There are successes, though:  Kai, the mostly deranged sidekick, charms from the outset.  Her feral animations and nuanced delivery really make her stand out against this batch of also-rans.  Any object that can be thrown can also be thrown and then guided in slow motion, including corpses, which is something you must see to believe.  We didn't even have a target; we would just throw bodies so that they flew like Superman head-first into gongs.  This is something you can do for a half an hour - or more - without tiring of it.  This guided firing is called "Aftertouch," and it's about fifty percent of the game.  One wonders what the game's length would actually be if you didn't play half of it in slow-motion.        Some measure of your enjoyment will be bound up in whether or not you "buy" the story that they are telling.  I've heard it described as epic, when it's pretty rudimentary fantasy-by-numbers bullshit, so who knows.  It's all a matter of perspective:  are we judging it against only PS3 games?  If so, things are shaping up!  If you own more than one console - or a personal computer - your standards for grand storytelling were recently adjusted upward.
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With lavish attention to detail and a powerful cast, director Oliver Stone&#39;s &quot;Alexander&quot; is a thought-provoking, although long-winded, film about a man who, by 32, had solidified a massive empire
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Blade Trinity begins as the best Blade movie ever. Itâs totally got the hardcore badass tone with gory deaths and cool fight scenes with no one liners.
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âVince Vaughnâs Wild West Comedy Showâ imagines itself a contemporary equivalent of rootinâ- tootinâ traveling entertainments like Buffalo Billâs Wild West Show. Thatâs a tall comparison to draw.