It isn’t quite the bungle in the jungle the trailers make it out to be, but “The Legend of Tarzan” still has to be considered a swing and amiss.
Christopher Lawrence
Christopher Lawrence is the movie critic for the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
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This weekend is shaping up to be a gas at local movie theaters.
After being sorely missed in last summer’s “Jurassic World,” Jeff Goldblum is bringing his eccentric line readings to this weekend’s “Independence Day: Resurgence.” He’ll follow that up by portraying The Grandmaster in next fall’s “Thor: Ragnarok.”
‘Roadies’ the latest example of rock ‘n’ roll-themed show that falls short of what it could be.
The three-day Licensing Expo rolled into the Mandalay Bay Convention Center on Tuesday, bringing with it more than 1,800 brands touting new collectibles or seeking investors to help them produce still more swag.
For the second episode of his motorcycle travelogue “Ride with Norman Reedus” the actor spent 24 hours riding around Las Vegas, with stops at Johnny Tocco’s Ringside Boxing Gym and Sosa Metalworks, among others.
Dory, the forgetful blue tang voiced by Ellen DeGeneres, returns, along with plenty of other familiar characters, in the long-awaited follow-up to 2003’s “Finding Nemo.”
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.”
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.
