The future looks awfully predictable (underscore awfully) in Repo Men, a blood-soaked, derivative and increasingly ridiculous sci-fi thriller in which Jude Law and Forest Whitaker play a pair of hotshot repossession agents who forcefully remove artificial organs from those who fall behind on their payments.
If you've ever known a psychiatrist who thinks he or she is godlike, then T.S. Eliot's 60-year-old play, The Cocktail Party, would be an absolute tonic for them.
In the happy future of Repo Men, if you need a pancreas, you can get a pancreas. It'll cost you $618,000 and, if you miss one of your scheduled easy payments, you'll find yourself hounded by a hired goon who will slice you open, retrieve the organ and leave you on the floor, bleeding to death.
Reuters - Utterly disposable but diverting, MacGruber manages to spin feature-length product out of an idea that few would try expanding beyond a Saturday Night Live skit.
The movie version of Diary of a Wimpy Kid manages to put flesh and bone on the stick figures in Jeff Kinney's wildly successful cartoon novel without altering the book's mildly subversive comic tone.
ers - Saturday Night seems like such a natural idea for a documentary -- charting the week of writing and preparation that go into an episode of Saturday Night Live -- that it's hard to believe it hasn't been made before. James Franco got the idea after hosting the show in September 2008, and exec producer Lorne Michaels gave him the go-ahead to bring in cameras and record an entire week.
Elizabeth Marvel is one of those chameleon-like stage actresses fiercely committed to character. Whatever the play — from A Streetcar Named Desire off-Broadway to Top Girls on Broadway — she transforms herself, each portrait totally different and totally credible.
Reuters - A refreshing answer to filmmakers who believe any swords-and-sandals film must be epic or at least overwrought, Neil Marshall's Centurion delivers some large-scale action but plays almost like a Roman-era Western in its depiction of a few soldiers trying to get home alive after the slaughter of their comrades.
