Clifton Collins Jr.

May 7, 2009 at 8:45am PST

Tags: Anton Yelchin, Chris Pine, Clifton Collins Jr., Eric Bana, John Cho, Karl Urban, Leonard Nimoy, See it or Skip it, Simon Pegg, Star Trek, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana

Photos: Paramount Pictures

Do you want to know what’s totally frickin’ awesome?

The new Star Trek movie is totally frickin’ awesome.

From the moment the film, the eleventh in the franchise’s history, begins, it is relentlessly, absurdly, unyieldingly awesome.

Walking in, our fandom skewed more toward J.J. Abrams and his Felicity-Lost legacy than the Trekkie world, but from the moment those familiar starships, at the film’s beginning the USS Kelvin, not the USS Enterprise, dip into sight, a sudden, unexpected glee rushed over us.

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See It or Skip It: Sunshine Cleaning

March 13, 2009 at 5:29am PST

Tags: Alan Arkin, Amy Adams, Clifton Collins Jr., Emily Blunt, Little Miss Sunshine, See it or Skip it, Steve Zahn, Sunshine Cleaning

Photos: Overture Films

Or should we call it “Little Miss Sunshine Cleaning”?

Produced by Peter Saraf and Marc Turtletaub, the team behind 2006’s wonderful and winning indie phenom Little Miss Sunshine, Sunshine Cleaning shares a great deal of that film’s DNA: an off-beat sensibility, a commitment to quirkiness and Alan Arkin as a crotchy patriarch. But what made Miss Sunshine so compelling was its ability to bring levity to life’s traumas.

Sunshine Cleaning wallows in them instead.

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Law Abiding Citizen See It or Skip It

F. Gary Gray's latest effort, Law Abiding Citizen, starring Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler, is a knockout! Exhilirating, wry and breathcatchingly paced, it's a stellar accomplishment for everyone involved. Hell yeah you should see it!

The Boys Are Back See It or Skip It

Scott Hicks, the director of Shine, and Clive Owen teamed up for this gloriously beautiful if underwhelming project. It's not that it's bad, it's just not that memorable and with such supreme talent attached, I was hoping for and expecting a lot more.

Jennifer's Body See it or Skip it

Oh, Diablo Cody, why'd you have to do it? I love you so long...and then you made this. Megan Fox does what she always does, she looks hot. At least there's that. Sophmoric, unfunny and obsessively idiosyncratic, it's a painful movie going experience.

See It or Skip It: World's Greatest Dad

Chocolate and peanut butter. Spaghetti and meatballs. Bobcat Goldthwait and profanity. Two great tastes that taste great together. Gone is the Bobcat of the Police Academy movies and in his stead is a fantastic writer-director who's able to orchestrate the most brilliantly, hilarious vulgarity imaginable. World's Greatest Dad is a fantastic dark comedy (very dark) that features Robin Williams' best performance since Good Will Hunting. See it!