Movies
‘Lawyer’ steals No. 4 spot in sales
Matthew McConaughey’s latest film, “The Lincoln Lawyer,” opened Friday and brought in $13.4 million to the weekend box office. Based on the novel of the same name by Michael Connelly, the film features cynical...
UH alum to premiere film at SXSW
UH alum Lucas Mireles will have the world premiere of his short film, “Love Analysis,” this weekend at South by Southwest. Mireles describes the one minute long short film as a punch line and...
‘Tango’ is actually more of a fiasco
Immigration Tango is a romantic comedy set in Miami, Fla., where an illegal-alien couple asks another American couple to switch partners and marry them so as to avoid deportation. As if the men agreeing...
‘I Am Number Four’ should be No. 1
Director D.J. Caruso and Michael Bay have teamed up with DreamWorks in the new sci-fi thriller “I Am Number Four.” The film opens in theatres everywhere today, and will surely delight the sci-fi crowd...
Nothing to go with in Sandler movie
“Just Go With It” is a perfect recession film. It focuses on rich, employed people who have the ability to take expensive vacations on a whim. This could have been a good formula if...
Meester is one creepy ‘Roommate’
Gossip Girl’s Leighton Meester stars as Minka Kelly’s bipolar, obsessive counterpart in “The Roommate.” Filmed at Layola Maramount University of Los Angeles and directed by Christen E. Christensen, “The Roommate” is a chilling thriller...
Statham kills people, blows stuff up in ‘The Mechanic’
In “The Mechanic,” Jason Statham plays a man by the name of Arthur Bishop. With heavy concentration, intense skill and patience, he takes his targets out in ways other than just pulling a trigger. When...
Kutcher, Portman discuss new film, ‘No Strings Attached’
Ashton Kutcher is taller than you think that he would be, not that he looks short on the movie screen. It’s just that there is a preconceived notion that all actors are tiny so...
‘Harry Potter’ charms muggle nations
The first of the two-part-final installment of the Harry Potter movies opened Friday and topped the weekend box office, bringing in an astonishing $330 million worldwide, according to the New York Times.David...
Reviewing movies no easy feat
Writing a terrible movie review is easy. All you have to do is slap an opinion on a page and tell people exactly how much you personally enjoyed a movie, put a...