Southern Oregon CW Movie Reviews

This time, “Harold & Kumar” seek freedom, not burgers

CRAIG OUTHIER
April 25, 2008 - 3:27PM

If you loved the reefer-fueled hijinks of “Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle” (2004), are you preordained to laugh yourself stupid when the duo goes waaaay down south in "Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay".

 

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“Baby Mama” is not “Knocked Up”

CRAIG OUTHIER
April 25, 2008 - 3:18PM

As Kate Holbrook, the unfashionably infertile heroine of "Baby Mama," Tina Fey embodies the reproductive flip-side of "Juno," "Knocked Up," "Waitress," et al.

 

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“Deception” is cold and emotionally vacant

CRAIG OUTHIER
April 25, 2008 - 3:06PM

Beware, filmmaker, the dread "erotic thriller." It has stunted greatness.

 

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Soft drumbeat of advocacy

CRAIG OUTHIER
April 25, 2008 - 2:59PM

Like a shrewd salesman who keeps his suitcase to the side, Thomas McCarthy's “The Visitor” doesn't immediately announce itself as a movie about immigration policy.

 

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“21” needs to know when to hold 'em

CRAIG OUTHIER
March 28, 2008 - 12:47PM

Far less fascinating as an over-packaged, over-plotted thriller than it was as a nonfiction book, 21 is the sort of movie that inspires the question, "Why didn't they just make it into a documentary?" Certainly, the story of six MIT blackjack geeks who fleece Las Vegas would have been more informative and credible that way.

 

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“Stop-Loss”: A meandering and uncertain drama

CRAIG OUTHIER
March 28, 2008 - 12:43PM

As a battle-tested Iraq war hero who cuts and runs when Uncle Sam invites him back for more, Ryan Phillippe embodies the progressive protest-politics of Kimberly Peirce's Stop Loss.

 

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“The Hammer” hits the comedy nail on the head

CRAIG OUTHIER
March 28, 2008 - 12:37PM

Adam Carolla has always been a bob-and-weave kind of comic – whining about this, riffing on that, finding humor in the details.

 

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“Under the Same Moon” sweet but forgettable

CRAIG OUTHIER
March 28, 2008 - 12:29PM

Under the Same Moon  is a sweet but forgettable togetherness yarn, poised ever-so-lightly on the knife edge of America's immigration debate.

 

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