You know you’re in for something odd when the commercials proudly show Dwayne Johnson bouncing a berry off his chest in the most gratuitous of 3D effe...[Read More]
The Eagle is a conundrum. As a film, it is solid, with a decent cast, a distinct and deliberate lack of CG trickery, and leans more towards character ...[Read More]
Having a limited knowledge of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), I went into the viewing of Warrior with low expectations, secretly hoping that the action/dram...[Read More]
With sadistic glee and a voyeur’s camera, Roman Polanski’s film version of French playwright Yasmina Reza’s stage production God of Carnage (shortened...[Read More]
Generating plenty of buzz on the genre festival circuit, Kill List is a coiled British thriller with undertones so sinister that few will be prepared ...[Read More]
Having never seen a single Harry Potter movie, I was curious to see Daniel Radcliffe’s first major non-magician role, and while I was surprised at how...[Read More]
Big Miracle is based on the book, Freeing the Whales by Tom Rose, a true story that chronicles the entrapment of three whales in the icy waters of Ala...[Read More]
One for the Money might be better named were it “One for the Women.” But you had to know that. It was ladies night at the movies folks. Completely pac...[Read More]
When I sat down to watch The Grey, I was not certain what I should expect. Based on the trailers, my impression was of a slick-looking but insubstanti...[Read More]
Are you scared that maybe you might spend 102 minutes watching a man on a ledge? That the title alone might lead you right down Phone Booth memory lan...[Read More]
Albert Nobbs is a strangely wonderful little movie about a strange little man named Albert Nobbs (Glenn Close), who isn’t a man at all but a woman dis...[Read More]
This is dance on film as it should be. There are of course countless movies with dancing as the focus, though few have the courage to let a camera rol...[Read More]