Posts by Category: Movie Review
Moonrise Kingdom Movie Review
Moonrise Kingdom is a good, and extremely well made, movie. I do feel it didn't quite live up to its full potential, but it's still a great movie (one of the best of the year) that easily deserves your time and money.
Bernie Movie Review
Funny, insightful, and just plain entertaining, it's probably the best film in Linklater's extremely varied and inconsistent filmography outside of Waking Life.
Dark Shadows Movie Review
Without the connection to something that already exists as a cult hit, the premise of Dark Shadows would be nearly impossible to sell. Even with that connection Johnny Depp struggled...
Battleship Movie Review
“Why so serious?” This iconic question, delivered by the late Heath Ledger in his astonishing inhabitation of The Joker in Christopher Nolan’s smash super-hero epic, The Dark Knight, could aptly...
The Raid: Redemption Movie Review
With some movies, the title pretty much says it all, and this is most definitely the case with The Raid: Redemption. Set in the drab slums of an Indonesian tenement,...
The Cabin In The Woods Movie Review
The Cabin in the Woods has all of the strange theory behind it that you might expect from creative team Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon, and for the most part...
Wrath Of The Titans Movie Review
A film that will surely inspire all-comers to brand it “summer,” Wrath of the Titans is a film with delusions of grandeur so far out of touch with reality, that...
21 Jump Street Movie Review
The A-Team. Miami Vice. Starsky and Hutch. The Smurfs. The Transformers. The Land of the Lost. The Dukes of Hazzard. ALF!… Okay, not that one yet (thank God), but the...
The Hunger Games Movie Review
As seemingly irrelevant as it may be – to review – (as is the case with Twilight and Harry Potter), there is more to explore in The Hunger Games than...
Friends With Kids Movie Review
Jennifer Westfeldt has had an interesting career as a screenplay author, and hopefully she’ll get some of the credit she deserves with Friends with Kids, even if it has its...
Hugo Movie Review
I’m sure they exist, but it’s almost unfathomable to imagine a cinephile who does not count themselves as a fan of the work of Martin Scorsese. Out of the group...
War Horse Movie Review
War Horse opens with a man buying a horse at auction for more than it’s worth, and more than he can afford, because his foolish pride won’t let him lose....
The Muppets Movie Review
As I walked out of the theater, my son (10) asked if The Muppet Show really used to be on TV, and you could see in his eyes that he...
J. Edgar Movie Review
When undertaking the task of translating the life of a famous historical figure for the purpose of cinema, discounting adventurous “left field” attempts such as Todd Haynes’s Bob Dylan biopic...
The Descendants Movie Review
Like all of Alexander Payne‘s efforts, The Descendants is not so much a question of what happens, but who happens, and the answer is once again related to a man...
