Trent (Howard Walker) undergoes a few slight changes in the demonic horror tale “The Black Waters of Echo’s Pond.” If you crossed Sam Raimi’s “The Evil Dead” with Joe Johnston’s “Jumanji,” you’d sure have a much better movie than Gabriel Bologna’s “The Black Waters of Echo’s Pond.” All the necessary exploitative elements of a sleazy […]
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Carell, Fey sparkle in comic crime caper ‘Date Night’
A married couple (Tina Fey and Steve Carell) discover cops can be dangerous in the action comedy “Date Night.” “Date Night” steals its principal plot device from Alfred Hitchcock’s classic “North by Northwest,” its spectacular New York car crashes from “The Blues Brothers,” and its put-upon main characters from “The Out of Towners.” By all […]
Weak mythology: Remake of Greek gods fantasy is a bash of the ‘Titans’
“Avatar” star Sam Worthington stars as the demigod Perseus in the fantasy action remake of 1981’s “Clash of the Titans.” On the sandaled heels of the last silly Greek mythology-themed movie – “Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief” – comes yet a sillier, clunkier, and more dramatically laughable new Greek gods adventure called […]