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A long, slow aerial shot of a motel in the middle of Nowhereland, Oklahoma establishes the wide open claustrophobic confines of Bug, a psychological horror film directed by Exorcist maestro, William Friedkin. If that seems to be a study in contrasts it is no mistake. Bug, an adaptation of the stage play by Tracy Letts is frighteningly claustrophobic, taking place largely in the run down motel room inhabited by Agnes, played Ashley Judd, here in fine form as a beaten down by life (not to mention her ex-husband) waitress trapped in the wide open and exposed flatlands of Oklahoma.
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"Live Free or Die Hard" is the sort of movie you approach like last year's "Basic Instinct 2" or "Rocky Balboa." You go in expecting the worst and figure you'll at least get some laughs out of seeing an aging protagonist embarrassingly trying to reclaim old glory.
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CANNES -- Rolling the dice for a third time in "Ocean's Thirteen," Steven Soderbergh and his team beat the odds. Final chapters of trilogies invariably suffer from lameness. This, of course, already transpired in the "Ocean's Twelve," where subplots misfired and the script resorted to all sorts of slight-of-hand trickery.
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The third voyage in the "Pirates" trilogy could be touted as "the biggest, loudest and second-best (or second-worst) 'Pirates' ever!" -- not necessarily a ringing endorsement, but honest. "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" clocks in at more than 2¾ hours, but, unlike last year's bloated sequel, at least possesses some semblance of a destination, making it slightly more coherent -- if no less numbing during the protracted finale. A bountiful opening is assured. The running time could diminish this swashbuckler's staying power, but Disney would likely leap at "Pirates IV" in a heartbeat if the principals would enlist for another tour at sea.
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The three main recurring characters get stuck in a rut and the same can be said of the film itself in "Spider-Man 3." After the significant improvement of the second installment over the first, new entry reps a roughly equivalent dip in quality and enjoyment, with Spidey now giving off the faint odor of running on fumes. This devaluation shouldn't hurt at the box office, at least at first, as the vast majority of the fans who turned the first two into $822 million and $784 million worldwide grossers, respectively, will cram multiplexes around the globe to see the first blockbuster of the summer.
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