If this action comedy isn’t Dwayne Johnson’s most satisfying big-screen performance, it’s a close second to 2013’s otherwise-forgettable “Pain & Gain.”
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Even though it filmed in Las Vegas, the resulting movie is such a polarizing fantasia that, two days before it was scheduled to open here on March 18, its booking was canceled.
I’m not a gamer. My entire experience with “World of Warcraft” consists of knowing that it exists. But you shouldn’t have to be familiar with the source material to enjoy a movie.
For “Now You See Me 2,” in theaters Friday, David Copperfield and Las Vegan Andrei Jikh served as two of the men behind the magic. The former earned a co-producer credit, while the latter taught the cast the art of cardistry.
“Frank & Lola” is good enough to have played at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where Universal purchased it for a planned fall release.
If Richard Curtis (“Love Actually,” “Notting Hill”) lost a bit of his mojo and, in order to keep food on the table, ghostwrote a Nicholas Sparks melodrama, the result would be something a lot like “Me Before You,” the feel-good-then-feel-bad-but-not-quite-as-bad-as-you-might-expect movie of the summer.
They’ve battled the villainous William Stryker, the killing machines known as Sentinels and, more often than not, each other. Now, the mutants of “X-Men: Apocalypse” are fighting their greatest enemy yet: sequelitis.
He’s one of six home cooks from the valley to make the top 40 on the amateur cooking show.
As an alternative for grown-ups looking to avoid the sequels and general noise of summer, “The Nice Guys” won’t finish last. But it had the potential to be a lot better.
Yeah, it will be plenty hot outdoors as Vegas tends to be in the summer, but there’s no need to sweat it with a vacation TV season filled with such choices as Cinemax’s “Outcast,” Showtime’s “Roadies” and Netflix’s “The Get Down,” not to mention a return of “Match Game.” Las Vegas entertainers and chefs are well-represented, too.
Nicolas Cage may not make ’em like he used to, but he is still making ’em in Las Vegas.
The district attorney says he knew participating in the show would open up his office to criticism, but he says he treated the show as any other media request. “But at the end of the day, I’m very proud of this project,” Wolfson says.
Hollywood changes its Spider-Man actors almost as often as some guys change their sheets.
Well, whaddya know? You really can stuff too many superheroes into a 2½-hour movie, make them fight each other, throw in some mommy issues and, despite a muddled plot, actually leave audiences thrilled and hungry for more.
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