Tag: Movies

Movie Review: Hulk

It’s not easy being green. Making green, however, was easy enough for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon director Ang Lee’s interpretation of Hulk on its opening weekend — the Marvel Comics adaptation grossed $63 million to land with a gamma-powered leap atop the box office charts. But will it cause the makers of other recent and …

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Kelly Hu called my house

One day before X-Men 2: X-Men United opened in theaters, I found myself on the phone with outrageously gorgeous X2 star Kelly Hu. She was really sweet and really funny. And she still has my phone number, but she never called me again. So I like to pretend that she lost it during a battle …

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Movie Review: The Recruit

As far as hotshot software designer James Clayton (Colin Farrell) is concerned, the CIA is just a bunch of “fat, old guys who were asleep when we needed them most.” That’s what he tells Walter Burke (Al Pacino), a CIA recruiter who visits James at the bar he tends in the evenings. It’s because of …

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