Crime Films

Pregnant wife, check. Upcoming promotion, check. Corrupt, murderous cops who’ve kidnapped said wife and future mother? Check. The French thriller À bout portant (Point Blank) is a fast-paced thriller that races from one action sequence to the next but fails to capitalize on its twists and turns.

Read FilmJabber’s full Point Blank movie review.

The world’s greatest detective battles the world’s most devious villain in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, a flashy, fast-paced action-comedy that never reaches its potential but delivers plenty of entertainment nonetheless.

Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law return as the bickering friends and partners Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Read our full Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows movie review.

Just when you thought the new Amazing Spider-Man movie poster was the coolest comic book news this weekend, Warner Brothers unleashes an awesome new movie poster for its tentpole 2012 superhero movie The Dark Knight Rises. The poster features villain Bane (Tom Hardy) walking away from a shattered Batman mask, with the words “The Legend Ends” set against the rain. The ominous poster should make even though most hesitant of moviegoers excited for this extravaganza.

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Playing double often doesn’t work out well. Ask Adam Sandler. Then again, on rare occasion, it works splendidly. In The Devil’s Double, Dominic Cooper turns in an incredible performance as Uday Hussein, the sadistic son of Saddam Hussein, and his reluctant body double Latif Yahia.

Read FilmJabber’s full The Devil’s Double movie review.

What do you get when you let a director known for adequately average films and two comedians who haven’t starred in a good movie in years attempt to convince people to spend their hard-earned cash on a movie about people losing their hard-earned cash? A surprisingly convincing crime-comedy called Tower Heist, which, strangely, isn’t very funny.

Read FilmJabber’s full Tower Heist movie review.

Another cop drama, another Channing Tatum movie. Another film where Al Pacino wastes his talent. It’s The Son of No One, a movie that no one needs to watch. The very definition of mediocre, The Son of No One is neither offensive nor captivating. It’s a movie that exists simply to exist, to offer nothing of substance while still eating up an hour and a half of viewers’ time.

Read FilmJabber’s full The Son of No One movie review.

People seem to like Johnny Depp. Why? Because he’s Johnny Depp. Women want to screw him, guys want to be paid $30 million for acting like a gay pirate like him and screwing the women who want to screw him. Unfortunately, the masses have to settle for watching him in movies, and Johnny Depp has a new movie coming to theaters on October 28. It’s called The Rum Diary, based on the novel by Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas).

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Horrible Bosses debuts on DVD and Blu-Ray on October 11, 2011. We’re giving away two free copies of the moderately entertaining comedy – which stars Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day as three lovable idiots who decide they should kill their lovely, wonderful bosses, played by Kevin Spacey, Colin Farrell and Jennifer Aniston.

You should enter, because we say so. Do it. Do it now. If not you’re a loser. Just saying.

OK, so it’s not that new in respect to entertainment news. It was released several days ago, but since I have other things on my mind than posting movie trailers, I’m just getting to it now.

The first full-length trailer – and at nearly four minutes, it’s a long one – for the David Fincher version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – is now online. It shows quite a lot of the movie, but is edited in a way that doesn’t entirely ruin the plot for people who haven’t read the books – or who haven’t seen the original movies.

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Long before Slumdog Millionaire and 127 Hours, Danny Boyle introduced both himself and Ewan McGregor to American audiences with Trainspotting, still considered one of the best drug-themed dramas ever made. The movie was neither Boyle’s nor McGregor’s first movie, but it was their first to make a real impact across the pond, thanks to Boyle’s frenetic direction, McGregor’s lively performance and a dead baby crawling on a ceiling.

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No, we’re not giving one lucky [presumably female] fan a date with Ryan Gosling, but we are giving away a cool prize pack to one lucky winner – worth $75 in anticipation of the September 16 release of the movie Drive, which stars Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, among others. The precision-crafted action caper is about a stunt man who also happens to steer getaway vehicles for armed heists by night.

Learn more about this great giveaway and the movie, and enter today!

It’s been the summer of R-rated comedies, and just when you thought Hollywood couldn’t subject the audience to even one more film, yet another arrives. Thankfully, and for a change, the best was saved for last as 30 Minutes or Less is the funniest movie of the year so far.

Read FilmJabber’s full 30 Minutes or Less movie review.