I didn’t know what to expect. From the endless trailer play The Artist received at the Landmark on Clark, I have to admit I didn’t have much hope. It looked too “artsy,” too cute, too self-important. That’s at least how it seemed. And then the reviews started coming in, and pretty much everyone...
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Remember back in the day when MTV’s The Real World was all the rage? I waited every week with bated breath to see what shenanigans would occur when people “stopped being polite and started getting real.” That tagline is a pretty good synopsis of Carnage, a biting drama directed by Roman Polanski. The film takes...
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Like a successful spy, the quiet and grippingly brilliant Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy sits unobtrusively amidst the flashier year-end Oscar contenders—alternately heartwarming (We Bought a Zoo), Artistic with a capital “A” (Hugo, The Artist), tragic (War Horse, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close), scene-devouring and envelope-pushing (Shame), glossily true to life (Iron Lady, My Week...
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Upon watching a trailer for War Horse a few months ago, my first thought was, “I will never be able to see that movie.” I’ve heard that many grown men have been reduced to openly sobbing while watching the play (that used puppets, for God’s sakes). How on earth could I make it through...
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Every little boy seems drawn to adventure. Swashbuckling. Damsels in distress. Treasure. Dragons or other mythical beasts. Pirates. The wilderness. The jungle. The sea. Just a few choice key words can evoke the imagery of a gaggle of boys riding their bikes on a secret quest filled with mystery and imaginary guns fired with...
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Well, what can you say? It has a zoo, the zoo has animals—and not just local ones like the raccoons and possums they had at the petting zoo across the street from my house growing up—this zoo has lions and tigers and bears and giraffes and snakes and whatnot else. It has Matt Damon...
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Like a lot of people, I didn’t see any need for an Americanized version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. The Swedish film was quite good, and it seemed as though actress Noomi Rapace had cornered the market on the character of Lisbeth Salander with her tough as nails portrayal of the troubled...
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So many screenings, so little time. Thanks to our pals at Lost in Reviews for this review. Let me start by saying I am a hopeless Brad Bird fan (Up, The Iron Giant). When I heard he would be directing a live action movie I was in. Then I found out that it was...
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Sherlock Holmes, action hero is at it again. The year is 1895 and turn of the century London is murky, rainy and CGI’d as ever. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows picks up where the first film left off. Not much has changed since the conclusion of part one. Sherlock’s always faithful partner-in-fighting-crime, Watson (Jude...
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Larry David. Seinfeld. Ben Stiller’s Greenberg. The entire cast of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Billy Bob Thornton’s Bad Santa. They are all unlikable misanthropes, but now they’re getting some stiff competition from Mavis (Charlize Theron), a bitchy beauty skating by on her sunny good looks when she is rotten to the core on...
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