Friday movie roundup – Oct. 10
It’s a very C+ kind of week for movies, with nothing terrible but nothing really great, either.
The best of the bunch is “City of Ember,” based on a young-adult novel about an underground city. Lots of fun for the whole family, and Bill Murray plays the idiot mayor!
“Body of Lies” is a body of meh.
“The Express” (reviewed at Film.com) takes the express train to Mehville. It’s about college football legend Ernie Davis, who surely deserves a more interesting and imaginative biopic than this one.
“RocknRolla” (reviewed at Cinematical) is Guy Ritchie’s latest “Snatch” remake.
Finally, there’s “Quarantine,” which is one of Hollywood’s Shameful Secretsİ, and it must be quite shameful indeed: A screening was scheduled, and then canceled. Except that they didn’t actually cancel it — they just told the critics they did. It was still held Thursday night, with the public invited. Apparently it was the same scenario in a number of cities. Nice work, Screen Gems! I’ll have a review this weekend.
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October 10th, 2008 at 5:02 am
Thanks for the heads up.
October 12th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Whoa, and “Quarantine” got a positive review. Is this the first “Shameful Secret” movie to actually be good in the history of forever?