Archive 1997-2016
Hoping to sidestep the rash of lacklustre blockbusters with good old-fashioned Hollywood star-power, Knight and Day pairs reliable leads Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz in a fast-paced spy- caper action comedy.
It would have seemed far-fetched to predict in January that the best and most entertaining movie in the first half of 2010 would star the unlikely duo of Tom Hanks and Tim Allen.
The advertising for Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood doesn’t quite make it clear, but this is not another rendition of the Merry Men in Sherwood Forest stealing from the rich and giving to the poor.
At the end of Iron Man, Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) revealed his identity to the world, sparing subsequent films from those shopworn superhero alter-ego issues but triggering new problems with the U.S. government, particularly a senate committee headed by Senator Stern (Garry Shandling), who doesn’t trust any individual to “privatize world peace.”