By Michael S. Goldberger, film critic Would you believe yet another TV sitcom reprised to feature length proportions? Yep, this week’s updated throwback is “Get Smart,” the 1960s small screen spoof of everything spies which featured the quick-clipped jibes of…
Category: Popcorn Movie Reviews
“The Incredible Hulk” — A Comic Book of the Mind — 2 & ½ popcorns
By Michael S. Goldberger, film critic Musing the inevitable inquiry–“What’s better, ‘Iron Man’ or ‘The Incredible Hulk?’”–a comic book of the mind transports me back to a couple of ten-year-olds who could give that weighty question its deserved contemplation. Gamboling…
“You Don’t Mess with the Zohan" — 2 & ½ popcorns
By Michael S. Goldberger, film critic Lest you be thought a fool, you don’t recommend “You Don’t Mess With the Zohan” without prefacing. Stuff like, ‘Maybe I’m crazy. I know it isn’t good filmmaking and it’s completely stupid, but hey,…
Popcorn: “Sex and the City” – E.T. Phones for Help – 2 & ½ popcorns
By Michael S. Goldberger, film critic Point of disclosure: I have never witnessed one episode of “Sex and the City.” Nope, not when it was first making waves for its frankness on HBO, nor during its extended life in rerun.…
"Redbelt" Holds Up Well — 3 popcorns
By Michael S. Goldberger, film critic Whether “Redbelt” is an intellectual look at martial arts or a martial arts film written and directed by an intellectual, leave it to Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet to be the brains behind this…
“Speed Racer” Can’t Get out of its Own Way – 2 popcorns
By Michael S. Goldberger, film critic It is alas ironic that “Speed Racer,” the Wachowski Brothers’s live-action adaptation of the series that originated as the Japanese anime “Mach GoGoGo,” is anything but swift. For all its colorful, dizzying, quick-splice freneticism,…
Iron Man – No Small Marvel – 3 & ½ popcorns
By Michael S. Goldberger, film critic Oh, that we might be bequeathed an “Iron Man,” a superhero for his times. Not so much for the extraordinary feat stuff, though it would be nice to have someone put a damper on…
“Baby Mama” — 2 & ½ popcorns
By Michael S. Goldberger, film critic At the outset of director Michael McCullers’s “Baby Mama,” about a snobbish single exec who has everything but the baby she so desires, there is hope. It looks like this tale of surrogacy just…
“Forgetting Sarah Marshall” — 3 popcorns
By Michael S. Goldberger, film critic Director Nicholas Stoller hilariously reminds that if you turn heartbreak on its ear just so, you can show it for the folly that it is. Not that it seems at all possible to Peter…
“Smart People” – 3 popcorns
By Michael S. Goldberger, film critic An ambience of intelligence, even when the characters are pompously unbearable, makes director Noam Murro’s “Smart People” an often disarming delight. Set at Carnegie Mellon University, where Dennis Quaid’s widower-professor Lawrence Wetherhold jadedly holds…
