HollywoodChicago.com RSS   Facebook   HollywoodChicago.com on Twitter   LinkedIn   E-Mailing   Free PR

Brendan Fraser

Interview: Harrison Ford Goes to ‘Extraordinary Measures’ With Loner Scientist Role

CHICAGO – A very subdued and scientific Harrison Ford recently spoke with HollywoodChicago.com and two other Chicago film critics on the subject of his new true-story film “Extraordinary Measures”. Ford stars in the film and served as its executive producer since inception.

Blu-Ray Review: Brendan Fraser’s Dull ‘Inkheart’ Fails to Come to Life

Inkheart

CHICAGO – Iain Softley’s “Inkheart” is about a man who can literally read characters into existence. They pop off the page and into reality. Sadly, the film that tells his story is shockingly dull and inert, a movie that is about stimulating a young reader’s imagination but is too boring to keep their attention.

Slideshow: 30-Image Gallery For ‘Inkheart’ With Brendan Fraser, Paul Bettany

| Image 1 of 30 |
Brendan Fraser as Mo and Eliza Hope Bennett as Meggie in the fantasy adventure Inkheart.

CHICAGO – This 30-image slideshow contains a selection of official press images from Warner Brothers’ “Inkheart,” which opens stateside on Friday, January 23rd, 2009.

Blu-Ray Review: ‘The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor’ an Awful Movie, Great Blu-Ray

Mummy 3

CHICAGO – The divide between the quality of a film itself and the Blu-Ray presentation it has been given has arguably never been wider than with Universal’s “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor”. The special features are as comprehensive as any released this over-crowded holiday season and the transfer is one of Universal’s best of the year but the film itself is a complete disaster, one of the most excruciating theatrical releases of 2008.

Despite Jet Li’s Would-Be Resurrection, ‘The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor’ Still Flops

CHICAGO – The threequel that culminates with “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor” is so hackneyed that even the main star of the previous two films – Brendan Fraser – wasn’t enough to sell audiences on a third return. Universal Studios needed to enlist co-star Jet Li to stand a fighting chance and take the mood the Asian way.

Jules Verne’s ‘Journey to the Center of the Earth’ With Brendan Fraser Stars Film’s 3-D Effects

CHICAGO – Jules Verne’s classic 1864 science-fiction novel “Journey to the Center of the Earth” has been adapted well in excess of a dozen times into films, radio and stage plays along with several made-for-TV movies and video games. It has even been adapted into two amusement-park rides.


Hot stories on the Web

Hot Web Entertainment Stories


Syndicate content

User Login

TV, DVD, BLU-RAY & THEATER REVIEWS

  • Jack Reacher with Tom Cruise

    CHICAGO – “Jack Reacher” doesn’t work as an action movie. However, if you approach the mannered dialogue and dark storytelling as a noir, which is what I believe the writer and director (if not the marketing team at Paramount) intended, then there’s a lot to like here. It’s a stylized, slick, well-made ride with some crackling dialogue, charismatic performances, and heavy doses of style.

  • Safe Haven

    CHICAGO – At its best, Lasse Hallstrom’s “Safe Haven,” based on the book by the insanely popular Nicholas Sparks, is merely safe, Lifetime Channel TV Movie junk. At its worst, it’s pretty offensive and exploitative of women actually stuck in abusive situations and men forced into single parenthood after losing a spouse. As he has done before, Sparks takes real-world issues and turns them into manipulative devices. Hallstrom (“Chocolat”) has enough filmmaking skill to keep it from getting too boring despite the attempts on the part of the two remarkably dull leads to put you to sleep.

Free Giveaway Mailing

HollywoodChicago.com Hookup, free entertainment giveaway mailing

Advertisement


HollywoodChicago.com on Twitter

LIST OF UPCOMING EVENTS

HollywoodChicago.com Archive

Bookmark Us

Bookmark HollywoodChicago.com 
Bookmark Page 

Related Links

HollywoodChicago.com Top Ten Discussions
tracker