02.13.2013 | By Karen Posada |
*Updated December 2025
Escape From Planet Earth is a great experience for both parents and children alike. It delivers a strong message of teamwork and family unity all wrapped in an adorable, funny and cool package. Read More
02.13.2013 | By Jack Rico |
*Updated 2026
In 2026, after the YA fantasy wave has settled into nostalgia, Beautiful Creatures reads like a reminder of how hard it was to escape the shadow of Twilight.
02.13.2013 | By Karen Posada |
Every year just around Valentine’s day a book by Nicholas Sparks that has been made into a movie comes out, this year it’s ‘Safe Haven’. This is the second movie this week that is set in the South of the U.S.; the landscapes are quite beautiful, making any of us want to move to this enchanted place. Yes the main two actors are major eye candy, but there’s not much more to them than that. The problem with this sort of movies is that they all stick to the same formula leaving very little to the imagination and even less that would surprise an audience. For anyone who is going to watch this movie you know what to expect and if you like your corniness, mediocre acting and predictable ending this one for you.
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Katie (Julianne Hough) runs away from her mysterious and what seems like tragic life and randomly ends up in Southport, North Carolina where she starts a new life. Here she meets Alex (Josh Duhamel) a widower with two children that is quickly smitten by Katie without knowing what he’s getting into.
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This movie is filled with awkward and uninteresting conversations due to a poorly written script and unskillful acting. There are plenty of moments that don’t seem to fit with the rest of the film and at the end just with a little analyzing you realize how little they paid attention to detail. It is extremely overdramatic to make a point on who the bad guy is, while also using a lot of unnecessary drama to move the story along. All the romantic moments are completely predictable making them loose their charm.
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Hough seems to not know how to react to a lot of things in the film, making her a bad actress. I don’t blame her completely since the script itself seems bipolar making her antisocial one second and completely nice the next without a real reason. Duhamel’s character seems so lonely that he inexplicably goes after this girl without much vision in a way a teenage boy would.
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The movie ignores reality and sense in some occasions making it all the more surreal and unbelievable. Tierney (David Lyons) is almost superhero like surpassing obstacles a normal person wouldn’t, while always looking tense and crazy. There is one unexpected twist, which did surprise me, but besides that there’s not much mystery in the movie.
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This is more like a TV movie that would play on Lifetime, I understand during this time of the year many people want to go see romantic movies, but I wouldn’t recommend you spend your money on this one. Just like Lasse Hallstrom‘s last romantic attempt ‘Dear John’, this is a love story that you easily forget once you walk out the theater. Â
02.12.2013 | By Karen Posada |
The original animated family film Escape From Planet Earth is arriving in theaters just in time for the weekend. This project features a strong lineup of Latino talent, including Jessica Alba as the intelligent Chief Lena and Sofia Vergara as the anchor Gabby. George Lopez also joins the cast as the three-eyed alien, Thurman. Read More
02.10.2013 | By SBC Staff |
Seth Gordon’s comedy Identity Thief takes over the number-one spot with $36.6 million. No one expected this movie to do so well, it reached an unexpected number; it certainly has enough heart mixed in to give audiences a satisfactory product. This is great news for Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy. Read More
02.4.2013 | By SBC Staff |
This Super bowl weekend ‘Warm Bodies’ the comedy about the zombie-human romance opened at number one with $19.5 million dollars. The film appealed mainly to females, but the zombies brought in a different element and a broader audience. Also, the great reviews will probably keep it around for longer.
‘Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters’ last week’s number one dropped to number two with $9.2 million dollars. The fairytale might still be able to accumulate more money, but that’s still left to be seen. Read More
01.30.2013 | By Karen Posada |
Look at pictures and read our coverage of the Red Carpet Premiere of ‘Warm Bodies’.
Originality is something that Hollywood lacks a lot of, that’s why when something somewhat refreshing like ‘Warm Bodies’ comes around it creates a lot of buzz. The film will be more rewarding as a DVD watch, but if you want to see it enough in the theater you won’t be disappointed. The main thing here is more so the love story, hence why its release is so close to Valentine’s day; that in itself is predictable to the point of making us think it might be mocking ‘Twilight’, although we were assured it doesn’t. I praise the movie for not taking itself too seriously, since that clearly would have made it ridiculous instead of enjoyable.
‘Warm Bodies’ from director Jonathan Levine is about a Zombie named R (Nicholas Hoult) who falls in love with a human, Julie (Teresa Palmer), which changes the rules in both of their worlds and might help calm the chaos of the apocalypse.
The love story has similarities to the Romeo and Juliet story, note the main characters names, but of course it is quite unconventional. We have become obsessed with zombies and that’s where this film brings in originality and has sparked the crowds’ attention. The fact that a zombie is who narrates the story and pokes fun at his own state of being is entertaining, there’s some bending of zombie rules (ok quite a lot of bending) and that might annoy or delight some people. I’m into ‘The Walking Dead’ – as is more than half of the world, but I like that this movie forces you to have an open mind to a different kind of zombie world and see it in more of a comedic sense than a chaotic apocalyptic scenario. The key things to remember are that irony and sarcasm are two of the most important ingredients here.
The movie also scores with the soundtrack; it plays a great role in both the comedic and romantic senses of the movie giving it a complete feel. Hoult and Palmer are easy to like and their relationship develops flawlessly, although at the beginning we are not quite sure why Palmer doesn’t just run away. The storyline does have some gaps that contradict the main plot, but letting go allows you to take the film for what it is.
If you’ve seen a preview for this film and are interested you get exactly what you see: a lighthearted comedy along with romance, no more no less. It will give you just enough chuckles and insight into an interesting world enough to entertain you instead of boring you. Levine combines just the right amount of everything to give us a feel good movie, with an original twist in this much appreciated breath of fresh air.
01.30.2013 | By SBC Staff |
Fox Searchlight Pictures has just announced that British director Danny Boyle who’s done quite a number of remarkable movies such as ‘127 hours’ and ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, will release his next film ‘Trance’ in the U.S. in select theaters April 5, 2013. The screenplay is by Joe Ahearne and John Hodge and has been produced by Christian Colson.
Rosario Dawson whose mother is half Puerto Rican and Cuban has an important role in the film and knowing what kind of talent she has, this one will just get added to her lengthy resume. Read More
01.30.2013 | By Jack Rico |
‘The Place Beyond the Pines’ is Derek Cianfrance next film; he’s mainly worked on documentaries but had success with his last full-length film ‘Blue Valentine’. Here he recruits Ryan Gosling once more and adds on the very beautiful Cuban actress Eva Mendes and another hunk Bradley Cooper. The film was shown at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2011 and created a buzz. The film will open in select theaters on March 29th 2013. Read More
01.28.2013 | By Karen Posada |
Paramount Pictures’ ‘Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters’ got a strong hold of the number one spot with $19 million dollars. The violent spin of the Brothers Grimm fairytale only got a lukewarm welcome. The film got pushed back almost an entire year from its original release date in hopes that Jeremy Renner’s 2012 success would help it reach a broader audience; but that strategy doesn’t seem to have worked.
‘Mama’ dropped to the second spot with $12.9 million dollars and it has now earned past its production cost. The movie has been a triumph for the studio and it still has many countries left to premiere in, so it will earn much more. Read More
