Gil Mansergh’s Cinema ToastNew Releases 3/30/07Blades of Glory (PG-13)Will Farrell, Jon HederDirected by: Will SpeckFans of Will Farrell’s pasty, flabby, body won’ be disappointed as once again he mines his everyman physique for a laugh. The “butt” of the joke this time around is men’s figure skating and his skating partner is the guy who played Napoleon Dynamite. Too few laughs for me, but it’s still got Will Farrell.2 pieces … Read More »

Gil Mansergh’s Cinema ToastNew Releases 3/23/07 Reign Over Me (R)Adam Sandler, Don Cheadle, Jada Pinkett Smith, Liv Tyler, Saffron BurrowsDirected by: Mike BinderSandler is another comic who wants to be taken seriously in a movie that should be taken seriously since it deals with the aftermath of the 9/11 plane crashes, but despite all the good intentions I just didn’t believe that the Sandler and Cheadle characters were good … Read More »

Gil Mansergh’s Cinema ToastNew Releases 3/16/07 Chris Rock and Sandra Bullock bomb big time! I Think I love My Wife (R)Chris Rock, Kerry Washington, Gina Torres, Steve Buscemi.Directed by: Chris RockRock has turned Eric Rhomer’s deftly nuanced French movie “Chloe In the Afternoon,” (which, in itself, is based on “The Seven Year Itch”), into a foul-mouthed, sexist and unintentionally racist film loaded with ill-considered jokes about Viagra, Michael Jackson, and racial … Read More »

Gil Mansergh’s Cinema ToastNew Releases 3/9/07 300 (R)Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham, Dominic West, Vincent Regan, Michael Fassbender, Tom Wisdom, Andrew Pleavin.Directed by: Zack SnyderFrank Miller’s blood-soaked graphic novel of the Spartans against the Persians in 300 BC, arrives on the big screen with its sexism, racism and homophobia intact. Its fight scenes of chiseled warriors seem lifted from the screens of Play Station 3, but it is still … Read More »

Gil Mansergh’s Cinema ToastNew Releases 3/2/07 Zodiac (R)Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey, Mark Ruffalo, Brian CoxDirected by: David FincherSan Francisco’s infamous serial killer wrote to the police through letters printed in the Chronicle’s front pages. What makes this one so interesting is the focus not just on catching the killer, but all the trying-to-steal-the-limelight jockeying by the detectives, reporters, lawyers and even a political cartoonist. Brian Cox as lawyer Melvin Belli, the … Read More »