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Wizard: What do you want to be in the world? I mean the whole world. What do you want to be? Close your eyes and think about that.
August Rush: Found.
August Rush
2007
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Diverting "Babylon A.D." Eventually Falls Apart
Babylon A.D. probably won’t do much for Vin Diesel’s action-movie career. But its failure may be for the best if it pushes the actor into roles that require him to do more than mumble one-liners and shoot bad guys.
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“Traitor” Explores Religion, Terrorism to Little Effect
A story about Islamic terrorists infiltrated by a Muslim explosives expert with ties to the West, Traitor manages to be unsatisfying as a thriller, dreary as a thought piece, and somewhat offensive in the amount of screen time it spends as a terrorist apologia.
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Feel-Good “Longshots” Is Winning Family Fare
If someone would’ve told me that rapper Ice Cube and Limp Bizkit front man Fred Durst would one day team up for an inspirational, family-friendly movie such as The Longshots, I wouldn’t have believed them.
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"Fly Me to the Moon" Isn't One Giant Step Forward
As the third space-themed, family-friendly film this summer, Fly Me to the Moon falls somewhere in between the far superior Wall·E and the lackluster Space Chimps in terms of sheer quality.
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"Tropic Thunder" Skewers Hollywood Cliches
Tropic Thunder, a new comedy from director and star Ben Stiller, is profane, crude and politically incorrect. It’s also uproariously funny—the year’s best comedy—and has a winning performance from Robert Downey Jr.
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Three Years Later, the "Traveling Pants" Still Fit Nicely
Proving that popular books can be beautifully adapted for the big screen, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 has all the verve and spunk of the original as the four friends are now wrestling with being college-age girls.
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What's Wrong with Being a "Mama's Boy"?
Last night, while watching the video intro that aired before John McCain’s acceptance speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention, I learned something...
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Off to San Jose! Oprah Here I Come!
Farewell for a few days, but as the Terminator put it so eloquently . . . "I'll be back."
