What would you do if a couple of Prius driving, Utne Reader subscribing, Zinfandel drinking, global warming believing, organic food eating yuppies moved in next door and had sex in their outdoor pool...
Director Ridley Scott’s latest, a Mideast thriller with as harsh a streak of anti-Americanism as you’ll ever see, has bigger problems than politics: it’s just plain boring. You keep...
This is one of those movies where for most of the two long hours you sit and wonder why?. Why with all that money they didn’t spend more time on the script. Why with a star like Mark Wahlberg they...
I have a theory that one of the reasons Golden Age-era films are consistently better than what we’re seeing produced today is because of the censorship they were forced to work around. When it...
By some tortured, objective filmmaking standard it might be possible to make the case that Quantum of Solace isn’t the worst James Bond film of all time, but I defy anyone to argue that it isn’t...
As though it were a nostalgic look back at an ideal WWII-era German childhood, The Boy In The Striped Pajamas is filmed in lush, warm colors and told through the eyes of an eight year-old German boy named...
Well let’s just say that I finally know what it means to be gobsmacked.
Twilight is the anti-everything awful and insidious produced these last fifteen years to further the left’s malicious...
A simple, fast paced story with vibrant animation and simple characters makes for a solid time killer but nothing more. Bolt is very much like a Saturday morning cartoon souped up and blown up for the...
Baz Luhrmann’s Australia deserves credit for attempting to bring back the old-fashioned, slow-burn romance set within Big Historical Events, but the narrative is such an unfocused mess and so...
Nearly two and a half hours pass before The Curious Case of Benjamin Button hits you with any real warmth or poignancy and that’s an awfully long row to hoe in order to finally feel the way the...
The great irony no one will speak of with respect to Gus Van Sant’s biopic of slain gay-rights leader Harvey Milk is that the last and most famous fight of Milk’s life was defeating Proposition...
Everything about The Day The Earth Stood Still is disjointed – doesn’t connect, doesn’t compute, doesn’t resonate. The story, character relationships, and even the special effects...
Jim Carrey’s problem isn’t that he lacks in talent or energy, his problem is that those traits he’s so gifted with made him a superstar and now he doesn’t lack for power over his...
In his first film aimed directly at the holiday younger set, Bedtime Stories firmly remains an Adam Sandler picture even though, save for Booger Monster-type humor, all but gone are the gross-out gags...
As documented here, here, and here, through the portrayal of the sympathetic child molester, the onscreen hyper-sexualization of young girls, and child characters liberated through sexual behavior, ...
Revolutionary Road opens its story just after the conclusion of a disastrous community theatre production of The Petrified Forest where, on a small, suburban public school stage, April Wheeler (Kate Winslet)...
Clint Eastwood’s hinted that Gran Torino might be his last turn in front of the camera. If that’s true, he could not have chose for himself a more fitting farewell. Without a hint of the self-referential,...
Director Darren Aronofsky’s stark look at the subculture of low-level professional wrestling builds to an impressive and ambitious character study that looks to be equal parts Requiem For A Heavyweight...
Frost/Nixon is a full on respectable, accomplished and intelligent retelling of the now famous series of interviews English television personality David Frost conducted with disgraced former President...
Easily the best of the five films nominated for Best Picture this year (which isn’t saying a whole lot), “Slumdog Millionaire” can be summed up with the term, “highly original.”...
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