Film Reviews
Current films, current DVD's and forgotten classics are reviewed in our effort to save you time in your pursuit of an interesting and entertaining evening at the movies.
To Kill a Mockingbird
I always wanted to know an Atticus Finch, and yet I never quite met him. I never found him in any of my coaches, my teachers, my friends, the fathers of my friends.
September 24th, 2010
The Hurt Locker
The Hurt Locker, awarded the Oscar for the Best Picture of the Year, is an important film that will be remembered as a perfunctory exposition of the occupation of Iraq in the War on Terror.
September 24th, 2010
Where the Wild Things Are
I do try to give films a good go of it when I try to enjoy them as art or simply entertainment. In terms of "Where the Wild Things Are," I tried to look at the picture trough the eyes of an
September 24th, 2010
Shutter Island
Martin Scorsese pays heavy homage to film legend Alfred Hitchcock in this film with as many twists as a steep mountain road.
September 24th, 2010
The Lost Boys
Not just another teen angst meets brood vampire movie, "The Lost Boys" has always been special to me.
September 24th, 2010
Funny People
In order to rediscover his comedy, Adam Sandler reverted to the worst within the ego of an overindulged former stand-up comedian turned low-brow actor
September 22nd, 2010
Julie & Julia
Julia Child was the most influential culinary author of all time. Julie Powell respected that fact and piggy-backed her ambition on the shoulders of a very big woman.
September 22nd, 2010
The Ugly Truth
I think Gerard Butler is a fine actor in the right film and the right script. This was not that film.
September 22nd, 2010
Extract
Mike Judge, the personafication of hit or miss, writes and directs what will become a comedy classic.
September 15th, 2010
Red Cliff
In 208 AD, events were set in place in ancient China that pitched a huge battle between the Northern aggressors upon two provinces in the South, which set the troubled tone for centuries.
September 15th, 2010
The Merry Gentleman
Michael Keaton directs his first film and uses the old formula of substance over style to present the quirky fellowship between a hitman and a sweet girl.
September 15th, 2010
Inglourious Basterds
For all of you, and your descendents, there is the extreme Jewish fantasy film, "Inglourious Basterds," to quell your immediate hunger for the ultimate revenge for that ultimate transgression.
September 15th, 2010
Wyatt Earp
"But Now he's (Wyatt) Going to be a Marshal and an Outlaw. Best of Both Worlds, Son." These words were spoken by a tubercular Doc Holliday, played by a gaunt 145 pound Dennis Quaid, to Warren Earp, played by a young Jim Caviezel, in the junior classic "Wyatt Earp," which sums up the life of a comple
September 15th, 2010