F.I.L.M. of the Week (November 26, 2010)
It’s Black Friday! While my shopping today was limited to Amazon.com, there’s something more to celebrate … IT’S CHRISTMAS TIME! (Officially, at least!) What better way to celebrate than by watching...
View ArticleREVIEW: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
C.S. Lewis’ Narnia book series has been a favorite of Christians for years. They jumped for joy when Disney and Walden Media adapted “The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe,” producing an audience hit...
View ArticleRandom Factoid #529
If I explained to you the thought process that got me to today’s factoid, I’d be writing an essay. But something got me thinking of movies watched at really inopportune moments. I can imagine that if...
View ArticleREVIEW: Unknown
Half “Taken” and half “The Bourne Identity,” Liam Neeson’s latest thriller “Unknown” lacks the scintillating sizzle of such like-minded thrillers but will pass for decent entertainment. If you want a...
View ArticleREVIEW: The Grey
At its core, Joe Carnahan’s “The Grey” desperately wants to be a “127 Hours,” a deeply personal and intimate drama about the pitting of the human will against an unforgiving wilderness. And while...
View ArticleREVIEW: A Million Ways to Die in the West
According to Seth MacFarlane, there are a million ways to die in the west. Too bad not a one of them could have come to put me out of my misery while watching his dreadful new film. It doesn’t just...
View ArticleREVIEW: Non-Stop
Liam Neeson’s career has taken one of the stranger trajectories in recent memory. Beginning as a prestige dramatic actor whose stunning performance in “Schindler’s List” earned him an Oscar...
View ArticleREVIEW: The Lego Movie
Back in 2012, “Zero Dark Thirty” gave audiences a pulse-pounding conclusions as it showed SEAL Team 6’s bold mission to kill Osama bin Laden in stunning detail. Yet even as gripping as that was, I...
View ArticleREVIEW: A Monster Calls
A generation raised post-Spielberg’s “E.T.” has come to expect a certain amount of catharsis or salvation from stories in which an unhappy child is visited by a fantastic creature. J.A. Bayona’s “A...
View ArticleREVIEW: Silence
Like I do with many great films, I approached reviewing Martin Scorsese’s “Silence” with a reverence tinged with trepidation. No matter how many seemingly objective angles I took to evaluating it, I...
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