David Twohy doesn’t reinvent the wheel with A Perfect Getaway, the key to both the film’s minor successes and shortcomings. Interested in straightforward B-movie suspense laced with a dash of wink-wink self-awareness, Twohy’s film concerns a vacationing couple in Kauai – screenwriter Cliff (Steve Zahn) and new bride Cydney (Milla Jovovich) – who, while backpacking…

 Working in a vein similar to – if not quite as successful as – Zach Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead do-over, replete with intro use of a Johnny Cash song (here, a cover of “We’ll Meet Again”), Breck Eisner’s remake of George A. Romero’s 1973 The Crazies is a testament to the value of understated…

Like a jaunty, boozy, fisticuffing night spent at a nineteenth-century cockney brothel, Sherlock Holmes rocks and rambles, steams and swings, bounces and blazes with the type of electricity it wasn’t clear director Guy Ritchie was capable of generating. Kickstarted by a jangly old world-new world score that oozes breathless verve, Ritchie’s vision of the renowned…

Boundless creativity can be a shortcoming if not channeled properly, a fact proven by The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus as it barrels from one extravagantly whimsical set piece to another. Terry Gilliam has never been a director prone to inhibition, and that’s increasingly become both his blessing and curse as a filmmaker, with the latter…