CW5 Lansing Movie Reviews

Let me assure you that “The Dark Knight” does, eventually, end.

 

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The humor – nay, the wit – of the old “Get Smart” TV series was neatly encapsulated in the closing credits of the show.

 

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There are men who would rather hang themselves with a monogrammed Louis Vuitton handbag than watch back episodes of “Sex and the City,” but I'm not one of them.

 

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The answer to the implied question in “How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer” is straightforward enough: The Garcia girls had sex.

 

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“You might find Narnia a more savage place than you remember,” an ally warns our sibling foursome just after little Lucy (Georgie Henley) isnearly turned into a button-nosed, bucktoothed snack by a hungry bear.

 

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Oh, if only the cast and crew of “What Happens in Vegas …” had taken the famous slogan literally and, yes, stayed there.

 

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“Redbelt” is a middle-of-the-pack David Mamet movie at best, but in the artistically impoverished ghetto of martial-arts flicks, it's practically “The Godfather.” Combining noir suspense, Hollywood intrigue and his own, practiced brand of macho mysticism, Mamet – the “Glengarry Glen Ross” playwright and director of “House of Games” and “Heist” – delivers a flailing punch that manages, albeit inelegantly, to hit the mark.

 

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Starring the likes of Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges and Terrence Howard, “Iron Man” boasts the kind of rarefied call sheet one would typically associate with an Oscar-customized ensemble drama, not a smash-mouth sci-fi blockbuster about a guy in a flying robot suit.But there Downey and Co.

 

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