'Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded': Track-By-Track Review "I always thought I could write pop songs for someone else or I could write R&B records for someone else, but I didn't think that people would accept me writing those type of songs and me singing them and just being who I am," Nicki Minaj recently told Complex about her hotly anticipated sophomore album "Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded," which leaked on Wednesday (March 28) ahead of its April 3 release date. |
The Hunger Games (2012) Young people, selected by lottery, slaughter one another with kill-or-be-killed desperation in The Hunger Games. The savagery is a yearly ritual mandated by the tyrannical regime of Panem, a broken nation built, after a terrible war, on the futuristic ruins of North America. It's also broadcast on live TV, a national media event. |
MDNA (2012) Madonna ''Girls, they just wanna have some fun!'' From the moment Madonna utters those words on MDNA, it's clear that she's trying really freaking hard to have a good time. |
'21 Jump Street': Review The Late-1980s pop culture relic "21 Jump Street" was a primo specimen of a TV police procedural with a catchy hook: A team of fresh-faced cops work undercover as high school kids, reporting back to their tough/earnest boss at the address listed above. |
'Project X,' teen hijinks run out of control Since "The Blair Witch Project," "Cloverfield" and "Paranormal Activity," it's been impossible to see a camcorder movie without steeling yourself for some monstrous horror lurking just offscreen. "Project X" is supposed to be a comedy, but parents with teenagers -- or parents with kids who may one day turn into teenagers -- will regard it with much the same mixture of dread and terror. |
This Means War (Movie Review) Part spy caper, part buddy picture, part romantic comedy, part raunchy-girl-talk sex farce, This Means War has been assembled with all the haphazardness of an amateur science experiment. The project was directed by the amped-up industry go-getter McG (Charlie's Angels), and it's had a long trial-and-error history. |
Chronicle Review Chronicle is one of those films that kind of snuck up on everyone and may very well have slid under the radar if not for a somewhat dead weekend in February and good word of mouth. And it's rightfully earned. After last weeks fantastic The Grey, the new year continues to produce good film with one of the most interesting takes on the comic book film in a long time. |
Lana Del Rey album: The verdict? After six months of fevered conjecture over the very existence of Lana Del Rey, the heavy-lidded chanteuse whose hypnotic ''Video Games'' fiercely divided the blogosphere last summer, it's still not clear exactly what the argument is. Do people dislike her because she's too ''sexy''? Is her apocryphal backstory — the supposed millionaire father, the alleged lip augmentations (which she denies), the name change from the more benign Lizzy Grant — the issue? Or is it just because she's scored a deluge of prerelease hype that, as her widely panned Jan. |
'Man On A Ledge': The Reviews Are In! If your impressions about the new action thriller "Man on a Ledge" are based on the film's very-literal title, you're very likely correct in assuming to know a decent amount about the film before entering the theater. "Ledge" is the story of ex-cop and fugitive Nick Cassidy (Sam Worthington), whose seemingly obvious suicidal plan to jump off a building is slowly revealed to be something much more. |
Review: 'Red Tails' It's been 26 years since "Top Gun," but the dogfights in that absurdly entertaining Reagan-era classic have lost none of their speed-demon zap. That said, "Top Gun" lets you know that you're basically watching a videogame with actors. Not so with "Red Tails," a lavishly square historical drama about the Tuskegee Airmen, the very first African-American military pilots, who served in segregated units during World War II. |