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Movie review: “Iron Man” just too heavy
Posted on May 8, 2013 | No CommentsBy Jake Coyle/AP Entertainment Writer In the galaxy of big-screen superheros – a rather glum lot – Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man is the snappy one. He’s the sarcastic, motor-mouthed,... -
Movie review: “The Call” rings up a dull thriller
Posted on March 20, 2013 | 1 CommentBy Jake Coyle/AP Entertainment Writer In countless films about emergencies, crimes and police work, the 911 dispatcher is but a bit player, an anonymous, robotic voice briefly heard on the... -
Movie review: “Watch” not worth a watch
Posted on August 1, 2012 | No CommentsBy Jake Coyle/AP Entertainment Writer Suburban paranoia can be as funny as it can be dangerous. But in “The Watch,’’ which was renamed from “Neighborhood Watch’’ to distance itself from... -
Movie review: Acting is missing in “Act of Valor”
Posted on March 1, 2012 | 1 CommentBy Jake Coyle/AP Entertainment Writer Just barely a movie, “Act of Valor’’ is more like a high-quality recruitment video with interstitial acting. Sissy things like plot and character development aren’t... -
Movie review: “Red Tails” shot down by a bad script
Posted on January 25, 2012 | No CommentsBy Jake Coyle/AP Entertainment Writer In “Red Tails,’’ the famed Tuskegee Airmen get the John Wayne-style heroic rendering they very much deserve, but in a hackneyed and weirdly context-less story... -
Movie review: “Battle: Los Angeles” down to earth
Posted on March 16, 2011 | No CommentsBy Jake Coyle/AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK, New York (AP) – Disaster films will really get interesting when they start running out of iconic skylines to destroy. How about “Battle:... -
Movie review: “Rango” is a desert hallucination
Posted on March 9, 2011 | No CommentsBy Jake Coyle/AP Entertainment Writer It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, where “the drugs began to take hold’’ in the Johnny Depp adaptation of Hunter... -
Who did Oscar overlook this year?
Posted on February 2, 2011 | No CommentsBy Jake Coyle/AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) – In handing out 120 nominations, the Oscars inevitably spurn others. “Snub’’ is the word of choice for these oversights, and Christopher... -
Movie review: “Going the Distance” stops short
Posted on September 8, 2010 | No CommentsBy Jake Coyle/AP Entertainment Writer In “Going the Distance,’’ Drew Barrymore plays a quick-to-laugh, ambitious young hipster who loves cool indie bands, “Shawshank Redemption’’ and playing the old arcade games... -
Review: “Clash” remake is not a titan-ic hit
Posted on April 8, 2010 | No CommentsBy Jake Coyle/AP Entertainment Writer Who wants to be a god, anyway? That is the principle twist inserted into the new “Clash of the Titans,’’ a remake of the sometimes...
