'I LOVE LUCY' (premiere: 1951) Yeah, I know; it's at or near the top of a lot of Best TV Series of All Time lists, and rightly so. In its time, it was defining. But today the broad humor draws only the occasional chuckle. The show is like your high The top box office hit … Read more
Lucy is optimistic about the 100-percent thing, but more conventional about the brain at 50 percent, wherein the added hardware is put in the service of shooting a bunch of bad guys in the face. That seems more practical, and Scarlett Johansson is an intriguing blank in Luc Besson's "Lucy," which is stranded somewhere between … Read more
A Greek demigod and a super-human genius are about to battle it out at the box office. The Scarlett Johansson-starring "Lucy" and Brett Ratner's "Hercules" are both making their debuts in cinemas this weekend, in a summer that's seen diminished ticket Universal's “Lucy” led the multiplex after it took in an impressive $44 million in … Read more
A quick Google search will reveal quite a few articles pointing out the inaccuracy of the main premise of Lucy. By ingesting drugs stuffed inside her belly by traffickers, a woman is able to access not just the 10 percent of her The two big new releases, Scarlett Johansson's Lucy and Dwayne Johnson's Hercules are … Read more
"Lucy" tracks the explosive growth of cells in its heroine's brain, which has been bumping along at 10% efficiency—the average, we're told, for most of us struggling dummies—until something happens to push her up toward triple digits. The movie Or maybe they were just into Scarlett Johansson more than they were into Dwane "The Rock" … Read more
More important: Would you savor the salty, crunchy, hot-buttered freshness of writer-director-mogul Luc Besson's wiggedy-wack but truly, madly deeply watchable thriller Lucy — a Ritalin-spiked pixy stick of a movie that pinches almost as much from Dwayne Johnson's brawn was no match for Scarlett Johansson's brain at the box office on Friday, as Johansson's new … Read more
Mr. Besson's particular kink for fatal female beauties receives an entertaining workout in his latest film, “Lucy,” in which he again introduces a young woman who undergoes a remarkable metamorphosis that leads to convulsions of extreme violence and an Dwayne Johnson's brawn was no match for Scarlett Johansson's brain at the box office on Friday, … Read more
The 108-year-old woman, Lucy Coffey, flew first class from San Antonio to Washington on a trip arranged in part by an Honor Flight group in Texas, according to a report from the San Antonio Express-News. Coffey, who was a sergeant in the Women's Army Scarlett Johansson is Lucy in this darkly humorous treat from Luc … Read more
Besson's augmented main character, having tapped into her full potential, is oddly inhuman for someone who's supposed to be her fullest possible self. The titular Lucy, as the film goes on, is able to do amazing things — levitate, for one. But in The North American box office numbers are coming in and Deadline reports, … Read more
PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE (PG). The adventures of Dusty Crophopper, the single-engine crop-duster that could, continue in this surprisingly intense 3-D animated sequel. Kids younger than 6 could find it quite scary, despite the goofy humor between the Besson's augmented main character, having tapped into her full potential, is oddly inhuman for someone who's supposed … Read more