Reviews

Best Picture was a particularly contentious category at the 85th Academy Awards. With no clear frontrunner like The Artist last year or The Hurt Locke...[Read More]

It has been five years since Bryan Singer’s enjoyable WWII spy thriller Valkyrie, but his lack of directorial output is only due to producer duties on...[Read More]

A young woman seeks refuge in a Southern coastal town in the new movie Safe Haven, based on a Nicholas Sparks novel. Though the film is marketed as an...[Read More]

A suspenseful thriller with political undertones would best describe Steven Soderbergh’s film, Side Effects. The film centers on psychiatrist Dr...[Read More]

As the saying goes, everything old is new again, and that is more true than ever in Hollywood. And in recent years, it seems to be particularly true w...[Read More]

What you are about to read is more of a serious warning, than anything else. Have you ever wanted to un-see something? For those of us that hold the a...[Read More]

High-concept films are a tricky thing to pull off. If a novel concept isn’t supported with good filmmaking, you might get people in for the open...[Read More]

Mark Wahlberg’s new film Broken City is, in a word, broken. There is so much left unsaid as well as unfinished in this movie, the audience is le...[Read More]

Imagine becoming a foster parent for the first time and your task is to raise two small children who have lived isolated in an abandoned cabin for fiv...[Read More]

While certainly loud, somewhat sexy, and decked out in all the accurate aesthetic trappings of 1930s Los Angeles, Gangster Squad turns out to be merel...[Read More]

Okay if you lived through the 1960s and/or you have a love for classic rock. That just about sums up David Chase’s debut film, Not Fade Away. Th...[Read More]

Since its debut in 1980, Les Misérables, the musical based on the 1862 French novel of the same title by Victor Hugo, has become a true phenomenon of ...[Read More]