Marmaduke
Maybe one of you can tell me, but is Emma Stone an actual human person in this lousy looking adaptation of the comic strip series? Or is she just voicing a cat or something? Owen Wilson is voicing the mammoth Great Dane, and I know George Lopez is lurking around there somewhere. I avoided the last Owen Wilson flick about dogs(Marley and Me
), and have done a pretty darn good job of not learning a single thing about this one, too. I intend to keep it that way. Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too?
All that Michael Jai White good will after last year's Black Dynamite is flushed down the toilet. You all know me by now. I have a strict No Tyler Perry policy firmly in place. This sequel reunites all the broadly defined folks from the last T.P.(how appropriate) feature length soap opera. Honestly the only reason I can think why anybody would need to see or buy this is if they're a Janet Jackson completist.
Harry Brown
When Michael Caine shows up on your doorstep with that sneer underneath his grandfatherly eyeglasses, it's probably best to just give it up. Harry Brown is the thinking man's vigilante flick, with the always perfect Caine starring as a former member of the British Royal Army who's sick and tired of seeing his neighborhood go to hell thanks to the neighborhood thugs. Pair this up with Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino for a night of geriatric revenge fun.
Red Riding Trilogy
Some people might take issue with the somewhat plodding pace of Red Riding's dense story, chronicling a multi-year search for a serial killer leaves the lives and careers of many people in it's wake. You hae to remember that this was originally a TV mini-series, so the need to speed along clearly wasn't there. It's that deliberate pace that makes Red Riding so hard to forget, as each installment, told in a specific year of the investigation, lingers and buries itself in your subconscious. Characters you've grown to love in one installment have aged and changed completely into the next, until the time comes at the final leg of the story that you feel like you've been beaten down by this crime just like the rest of them. It's a unique experience, and one that I hope people will take the time to invest in. A superb, noir thriller.
