Thursday, April 15, 2010

'The Perfect Game': Little League underdog tale goes off base

The characters in "The Perfect Game" verbalise old-school "Hollywood Mexican." In other words, they verbalise English with accents which we haven't listened given the golden age of Speedy Gonzalez.

The most (too many) Little League Baseball games packed in to the overlong film were shot as well

Thursday, April 15, 2010

'The Warlords': big battles, small personal drama in 19th-century China

A manly brew of war, wuxia as well as masculine bonding, "The Warlords" uses a large canvas — a Taiping Rebellion in 19th-century China — as a backdrop for a small personal drama.

Shouldering a movie's account as well as romantic weight, Jet Li delivers a distinctively