Film
'Grid' and bear it: Rock off
BY BLAKE GOBLE
Let's get one thing out of the way first: "Gridiron Gang" is not a movie.
Not even close. It's is an amalgamation of about 15 different sports movies, lazily and sporadically meshed together, desperate to get some of that sweet fall-football-excitement money. No convention is too tired on the gridiron.
Remember this plot? A hard-ass coach (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) has the duty of coaching a bunch of rag-tag, undisciplined teens how to become "winners" by coming together as one tough football team.
Outcast fable brings it home
- Steven Neff
BY MICHELLE ZELLERS
With a gown, bouquet and black-tie reception, you might think young Eileen (newcomer Alicia Sixtos) is getting married. She's not. She's just turning 15.
"Quincea
Beware of darkness: Mainstream adult film is back
BY JEFFREY BLOOMER
The battle cry of the collective American audience is still echoing faintly amid the masses, and it looks as if Hollywood has finally taken the hint. This fall, a host of dark, intense, unabashedly adult-oriented movies will hit U.S. theaters. It started last weekend with "Hollywoodland" and continues Friday with Brian DePalma's "The Black Dahila," the once-storied director's rumored-to-be-OK incarnation of the James Ellroy novel.
Dismissable 'Invincible'
- Angela Cesere
BY TED CHEN
Sports movies are nothing if not predictable. Surprises aren't even in the playbook. So to viewers who like knowing how movies end, "Invincible" might fit the bill. But for the rest of us, the film is just be another brick in a football movie marathon.
'Covenant' falls apart
- Angela Cesere
BY HYATT MICHAELS
The WB may be dead, but its influx of supernatural teenage dramas ("Charmed," "Smallville," "Roswell") lives on. With some brawny teenage leads and plenty of high school angst, "The Covenant" could have easily worked in the network's primetime lineup.
All's not quiet in the west
- Morgan Morel
BY SARAH SCHWARTZ
The stars were glamorous, everyone was under contract and the studio was God. It was the golden age of Hollywood, and it came with a dark side as grimy as its fame was bright.
"Hollwoodland" shreds to pieces any notion of easy stardom. Instead, it's a cautionary tale with the period shades of "L.A. Confidential," following private eye Louis Simo's (Adrian Brody, "The Pianist") investigation into the apparent suicide of TV's Superman, George Reeves (Ben Affleck).
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