Tuesday, August 9 2011
‘Sucker Punch’: Sound and Fury Signifying Nothing—a Furious Sounding Nothing
Though visually striking and stylistically ambitious, this bombastic, juvenile genre mashup is a mostly discordant, occasionally incoherent, but always compulsively watchable, mess. Just check your brain at the door...
Friday, March 25 2011
Five Hot Chicks and the MPAA, Why Can’t This Be Europe? Zack Snyder’s ‘Sucker Punch’
PopMatters was in Beverly Hills for the Sucker Punch press junket, and sat down with among others, Director Zack Snyder, Producer Deborah Snyder, and stars Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Vanessa Hudgens, and Jamie Chung.
Friday, January 30 2009
The Uninvited
The sex-with-daddy business serves as an underpinning to Anna's fundamental trauma.
Thursday, April 14 2005
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events: Special Collector’s Edition (2004)
Based on three Snicket books, the film mostly takes the kids' perspective, and so delights in the gooey and the ooky.
Friday, December 17 2004
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
Elastic and not a little ewwwy, Jim Carrey's Olaf is fond of his own unclever pronouncements and unsubtle when it comes to plotting.
Thursday, October 24 2002
Ghost Ship (2002)
The best surprise of 'Ghost Ship' is that it's surprisingly good, spooky, fun, and stylish.
