by Dale Lipscomb | Apr 19, 2010 | News Slider
Two comedic geniuses unite for the first time on the big screen in the movie Date Night. Tina Fey and Steve Carell make Date Night a hilarious movie going experience. The PG-13 comedy goes beyond sexual humor to adding a message about love to the semi-romantic action-comedy film. The movie begins by showing how difficult marriage for Phil Foster (Carell) and Claire Foster (Fey) can be when kids and work take up all the time. One of the key moments in the movie is when the Fosters find out their friends Haley Sullivan (Kristin Wiig) and Brad Sullivan (Mark Ruffalo) are separating. Phil and Claire start to wonder if their marriage is in the same danger as their friends. Phil decides he and his wife are going to spice up their date night instead of doing the same routine. The Fosters claim to be another couple at a restaurant (played by James Franco and Mila Kunis) that did not show for their reservation. After enjoying several glasses of wine, two men mistake the Fosters for the couple whose reservation they took, and escort them out back for some questions. The real action begins when they are accused of stealing delicate information from a modern day mob boss. At this point, Carell and Fey begin their movie-long flee from the bad guys. Later, they steal a car, sparking an intense car chase scene, but not quite as classic as the Blues Brothers (1980) final car chase. The movie is filled with great jokes, some cleaner than others. Each comedic scene had the audience cracking up. One of the defining characteristics...
by Bracey Wilson | Mar 8, 2010 | News Slider
Alice in Wonderland is a great family movie. It is rated PG and produced by Disney. Beside some complex wordplay intended for adults, the film is made for children. The only difficult things to understand are the intricate metaphors. The images in the picture are amazing and don’t require any analytical skills to enjoy. Tim Burton’s work in 3D is about as close as film can come to a hallucinogenic experience for the viewer. The combination of computer-generated animation, special effects, and make-up almost make the cartoon version more realistic than this one. Once entering Wonderland, the new film’s plot is mostly similar to the book by Lewis Carrol and the 1951 film version with Kathryn Beaumont as the voice of Alice. However, Burton’s version does have some differences in the plot, such as depicting Alice at almost age 20. Instead of visiting Wonderland, she is returning to Underland, where all the characters are at odds about whether or not she is the same young woman who came to visit them as a girl 13 years earlier. The prologue tells how Alice — before falling into the rabbit hole that leads to her adventure — is the daughter of Helen Kingsleigh. With her father Charles dead, Alice is about to marry the son of Lord Ascot for the security of his family’s wealth and status. A crowd of hundreds watches as young Ascot asks for Alice’s hand in marriage. She retreats to the garden, following a curious rabbit, instead of attending to the pressing matter at hand. Once falling down the rabbit hole at edge of the Ascot’s property, Alice encounters...
