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What To Look Forward To in … March 2010
There’s more to March than just the Oscars. Finally, March arrives and we can stop dwelling on 2009. In my opinion, March is usually a pretty decent movie month. This year’s crop looks especially...
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REVIEW: Clash of the Titans
It’s a pretty rare feeling for me to walk out of a theater feeling scammed. But as I pitched my 3D glasses in the eco-friendly disposal boxes outside my theater, that’s exactly how I felt. After...
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REVIEW: The A-Team
I think part of the reasons that few people listen to film critics anymore is because they seem to review every movie expecting it to be “Citizen Kane.” Such ridiculously lofty expectations have put...
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REVIEW: Chloe
Atom Egoyan’s “Chloe” is no fantasy, but it does ask us to suspend reality a little bit. The movie forces us to believe that normally sweet, innocent Amanda Seyfried can be an obsessive nymphomaniac...
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Random Factoid #479
In case you haven’t heard, there’s a new pairing of legendary director and actor to make every pundit go “Oscar winner in 2 years.” Morgan Freeman and Clint Eastwood for “Invictus” was an example of...
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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...
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REVIEW: 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...
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Random 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...
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REVIEW: 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...
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REVIEW: 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...
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REVIEW: 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...
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REVIEW: 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...
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REVIEW: 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...
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REVIEW: 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...
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REVIEW: 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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