Jamie Foxx

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 with Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man. ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’: ‘Professionally mediocre’ sequel Part of the appeal of Spider-Man, in all his paper and celluloid incarnations, is the character’s recognizably human scale. Neither a trillionaire industrialist (Batman),…

Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock in The Heat. Sandra Bullock The Heat: Bullock’s biggest opening weekend at domestic box office? July 1 update: Starring Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy, Paul Feig’s buddy comedy The Heat opened with a remarkable –…

The Hobbit with the Gollum a.k.a. Andy Serkis. Starring Martin Freeman as the young Bilbo Baggins, Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – the first installment in the cinematic trilogy based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s (not all that long) 1937…

Django Unchained trailer with Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx Django Unchained trailer is out. Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino of Pulp Fiction and Inglourious Basterds fame, Django Unchained is set two years before the Civil War. Jamie Foxx, in a…

Ray movie: Ray Charles played by Jamie Foxx. Taylor Hackford’s prosaic biopic Ray offers no more than a superficial look at the life and career of legendary singer and composer Ray Charles. I say “superficial” in that Ray may show Charles’…

‘Where the Wild Things Are.’ Oct. 18, ’09, update: Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are easily defeated its competition at the North American box office this weekend with a solid $32.4 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates…

Shirtless Ashton Kutcher with Anne Heche in Spread. Anne Heche and Ashton Kutcher (above) star in Spread, the tale of an ambitious escort (Kutcher) who makes good use of his physique and sexual dynamism to make his way into the…

The Heartbreak Kid with Ben Stiller: Widely panned remake of 1972 comedy. Oct. 28 update: Saw IV stormed to the top of the North American box office this weekend with an estimated $32.1 million. Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman, the fourth…

Mean Girls with Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Amanda Seyfried, and Lacey Chabert. Written by Tina Fey – partly adapting Rosalind Wiseman’s self-help book Queen Bees and Wannabes – the Mark Waters-directed teen comedy Mean Girls, replete with now popular quotes,…

Award-winning movies: Million Dollar Baby with Hilary Swank. A critical favorite and one of the top award-winning movies this season, Clint Eastwood’s sentimental boxing melodrama Million Dollar Baby, which Paul Haggis adapted from a short story by F.X. Toole (a.k.a.…

Wine Country road movie Sideways with Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church. Life lessons, picturesque views of Southern California’s Santa Ynez Valley Wine Country, and the (sexist?) portrayal of adult men as overgrown babies are all found in Alexander Payne’s…