Category Archives: Jack_Goes_Confidential
Jack Goes Confidential: Bening, Moore Deploy Marital Aids in ‘The Kids Are All Right’
THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT— but Mom and Mom?
Annette Bening and Julianne Moore play lesbian moms experiencing midlife crisis.
More about that later.
They’re also the parents of Mia Wasikowska (ALICE IN WONDERLAND) and her younger brother Josh Hutcherson—both products of artifical insemination.
Then Josh gets the notion to track down their birthfather.
But since according to the law he’s still to young, he gets 18 year-old sister Mia involved. Together track the birthfather (Mark Ruffelo) and introduce him (Mark Ruffelo) to the moms.
A rather awkward situation at best as, as Ruffelo now tries to bond his way into the family and redefine—make that re-RE-define the family ties. Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS; Dark Comedy in Search of Serious Editing
What we’ve got here is a third coming…
Of Steve Carell and JoCo export Paul Rudd following their collaborations in ANCHORMAN and THE 40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN.
But this time out it’s the Americanization of the French farce THE DINNER GAME.
In charge of the project was veteran comedy director Jay Roach whose past credits include the AUSTIN POWERS and MEET THE PARENTS franchises.
Does it work? Does the power threesome pull it off?
Sort of. Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: Angelina’s Bankable Action Streak Continues!
Angelina Jolie is the # 1 FEMALE action star in movies today.
Just think, Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: CYRUS Unlocks New Potential for Jonah Hill
It’s unfortunate!
In the trailer and TV spots for CYRUS, Fox Searchlight Pictures is marketing the film as an all-out comedy.
In my humble opinion that’s a misrepresentation!
Let’s call it a DARK-Comedy maybe. Or better a Comedic-Drama.
CYRUS stars John C. Reilly as a down on his luck kinda guy whose ex-wife Catherine Keener’s about to get remarried.
He just can’t seem to get his life back together. Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: INCEPTION— Mindbending Brainbuster a Visual Feast
Welcome to a prison of memories; a visual candy store…
It’s the subconscious you can’t control. Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: Movie Far Exceeds Lame DESPICABLE ME Title
Don’t let the less than stellar title – Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: LAST AIRBENDER Delivers for Intended Demos, it’s 3-D Doesn’t
M. Night Shyamalan, the Indian born Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: Bella’s Wolf Tease Puts Twilight Bite on Vampire!
Just minutes into TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE, 100+ year old VampMeister Edward Cullen passionately pops the proposal: MARRY ME!
But Bella Swan backs off. We’re still young, she figures. And then there’s still her girlish Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: Sandler, James, Rock, Schneider and Spade = Cheap Summer Laffs!
On Wednesday night’s LATE SHOW Adam Sandler told David Letterman that he and his four co-stars in GROWN UPS were like Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: Tom Cruise’s New Romantic Action Thriller Underwhelms!
It’s been nine years since Tom Cruise shared the screen with Cameron Diaz in VANILLA SKY
Question is, is that enough time for yet another teaming of those two?
It probably would’ve been Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: Pixar Raises the Bar with Toy Story 3
Don’t let the numeral 3 behind the title scare you off because TOY STORY 3 is as good as it gets this summer!
You’ll laugh, you’ll cry and you’ll gladly kiss your 8 bucks goodbye.
Granted, it may not have the impact of the groundbreaking 1995 original, but it makes up for that with a terrific 3-D process and heartfelt storytelling. Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: A-TEAM Foursome Blows ’em Up Good!
You might wonder why I’m being so kind to THE A-TEAM movie.
Probably because going in, my expectations were so low.
After all, I’ve suffered through such past lowbrow Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: Russell Brand & Jonah Hill Take Trip on Wild Side!
| I’ve got to be honest with you. I was really pumped to see GET HIM TO THE GREEK! |
After all, it’s the latest from producer Judd Apatow’s fun factory who’s sometimes cutting edge—other times raunchy-with-a-heart Apatow’s comedies have literally become a franchise of their own.
How can you argue with PINEAPPLE EXPRESS, KNOCKED UP, SUPERBAD, TALLADEGA NIGHTS, THE 40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN, STEP BROTHERS, FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL and ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND OF RON BURGUNDY?
Still it never fails that Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: Shrek’s Legend Lives–One Final Time!
What we’ve got here is one SHREK of a finale, as Dreamworks’ married-with-children ogre comes down with a major case of midlife crisis!
What’s he to do?
Enter a pact with evil Rumpelstilsken which now propels the Shrekster back to an alternative land—Far….REALLY far away where nobody is who he or she seems.
Good God, what we’ve got here is an OGRE-dose of George Bailey smack dab in the middle of IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE—or is it?
So now the big question: Can Shrek undo what’s he’s done? Restore the real world and reclaim his one true love, Princess Fiona?
Hint: Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: ‘Letters to Juliet’ a Pleasant Early Summer Surprise
Imagine Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: “Robin Hood’ – The Story You Probably Didn’t Care to Know!
What do Errol Flynn, Sean Connery, Kevin Costner—even Mel Brooks have in common?
They’ve all delivered past versions of the myth of ROBIN HOOD. Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: Cocky IRON MAN 2 on Target for Summer Popcorn Action!
It’s great to have IRON MAN 2 ushering in the summer 2010 movie season and picking up right where No. 1 ended two years ago when Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) admitted that he in fact Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: J-Lo Marks Screen Return with Patronizing Chick- Flick Farce!
Are we experiencing the silver screen’s late spring doldrums?
Let the Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: Intriguing Stealth Marketing by THE JONESES!
THE JONESES is a thought provoking bittersweet comedic-drama that’ll have you wondering Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: KICK-ASS hits with Shock Value, Violence–and Laffs!
KICK-ASS is funny and violent Continue reading
