Archive for the 'Contraband' Category

Crime thriller 'Contraband' is cliche after cliche

Headlining Mark Wahlberg, Universal's action-thriller "Contraband" is leading the box office; Meryl Streep awards contender "The Iron Lady" makes major push. A trio of new pics hoping to benefit from the four-day Martin Luther King were whipping up Headlining Mark Wahlberg, Universal's action-thriller "Contraband" is leading the box office; Meryl Streep awards contender "The Iron [...]

'Contraband' deals in illicit fun, not substance, critics say

Weinhoeft said the Perkins job was sensitive in nature and that by smuggling in the contraband to the prison, he potentially created an imbalance of power. Weinhoeft said the black market system in prison leads to violence. Same goes for some other forms of jailhouse “contraband,” and for that reason, Idaho should increase the penalty [...]

'Contraband'

Whether or not Wahlberg dug deep into his “Marky Mark” street-props past for this role, one can rest assured with his family's survival on his mind…'Contraband' forced him to take a walk on the wil Whether or not Wahlberg dug deep into his “Marky Mark” street-props past for this role, one can rest assured with [...]

Review: 'Contraband' predictable but has its thrills

I'm giving the edge to Wahlberg's action thriller Contraband, but don't be surprised if Disney's 3-D re-release of Beauty and the Beast gives Marky Mark a run for the money. This R-rated remake of the 2008 Icelandic thriller Reykjavík-Rotterdam stars By Robert BellIn the 2008 Icelandic film Reykjavik ― Rotterdam, on which Contraband is based, [...]

Movie Review: Contraband's Dark Turn Spoils an Otherwise Fun, Sleek Heist Flick

By Al Alexander Roman Polanski directs this film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning Broadway hit “Gods of Carnage,” a darkly funny look at two couples (John C. Riley and Jodie Foster, and Christoph Waltz and Kate Winslet) coming to passive-aggressive Savvier and less cartoonish than those posters of Mark Wahlberg with stacks of cash taped [...]