Although I promised a review of “Pirates 3,” I just can’t bring myself to do it. Just in case anyone in the world hasn’t seen it yet, here’s the short version: The first 90 minutes can be really boring, but the last hour is nearly worth the wait. I could watch pirates fight for three hours and you’d…

If anything, I’ve been a victim of my own high expectatons so far that summer. Both “Spider-Man 3″ and “Shrek 3,” though for very different reasons, floped to deliver what I wanted.And I had nearly equally high expectations going into “Waitress,” partly considering Adrienne Shelly’s last movie had b…

With that latest news via comingsoon.net, the notion of a prequel to “The Untouchables” has just gotten a lot more intriguing.Actually, I’ve been pretty excited about the notion since I first heard of it. Though I know it has its haters out there, Brian De Palma’s first “Untouchables” was a lot of f…

The verdict: Cracking stuff, Heder and Ferrell are a superb double-act, and that is laugh-out-loud funny.The rating: 7/10Man, just lately it seems Will Ferrell can do no wrong. He’s top of PCMR’s list of Hollywood funny men, with ‘Talladega Nights’ and ‘Stranger Than Fiction’ both providing seriousl…

By any stretch, that should be all-around good news.In a move towering, faraway overdue, Disney has tapped Anika Noni Rose (”Dreamgirls”) to voice the lead in the animated musical fairy-tale romance “The Princess and the Frog,” making her (I believe) the first black character at the center of a gran…

I could start off the day with some really poor news about Mike Myers and Walter Mitty, but I’m trying to say positive for a Wednesday dawn. Besides, just the thought of that makes me vomit a little in my own mouth, which is never a good thing.Besides, there’s so much more better stuff out there. Fi…

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“The plot and the structure of it and what the meaning is and what the events are representational of. I found that to be confusing. — Thora Birch, in a recent interview about her latest film, Dark Corners. Oh, good. So it’s not just m…