
I haven't seen all the films in this franchise, but it seems as if the series has moved to being almost pure action. Of course, it can't be pure, pure action. The car chase and fisticuffs have to be More>>
I recently complained that the three most recent 'Star Trek' movies, Star Trek Into Darkness, Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek: Nemesis, all ripped off what is considered the best 'Star Trek' movie, Star More>>
I don't know why, but, every time I see people wandering around on an island, all disheveled and dirty, I immediately think of ABC's Lost. When writer-director Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter) introduces More>>
Within the past decade, a few English films have been set in the 1980s. All have been about young men coming-of-age. All have ranged from the quirky, to the comedic to the deeply dramatic, films like More>>
When Terrence Malick's sixth feature premiered last year at the Toronto International Film Festival, movie blogger Brad Brevet called it "The Tree of Life 2." Watching the film, the end credits include More>>
Brian W. Seibert and Ricardo Valdez star in Turtle Hill, Brooklyn. They are also the movie's screenwriters. Siebert and Valdez play a gay couple celebrating a birthday with their friends. One might immediately More>>
The opening shot is patterned after Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, and like the 1960 horror film, Steven Soderbergh's Side Effects makes a drastic turn about a third or close to half-way through it. Unlike More>>
The week this movie was released, it was announced in the news that Commissioner Bud Selig was going to create a diversity task-force to look at the all-time low participation of African-Americans in More>>
Director Park Chan-wook presents his first English-language film and it's also the first of the half-dozen or so features he's done to be written by someone else. This is perhaps problem number one, More>>
After playing at several prestigious film festivals last year, My Amityville Horror is now being released in select theaters. On the same day, March 15, 2013, the documentary feature will also be made More>>
War Witch is the 2013 Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film. It was the official submission from Canada and it was written and directed by Kim Nguyen, a Canadian man who gets into the More>>
On May 2, 2011, President Barack Obama went on television and said Osama Bin Laden was dead. Bin Laden was killed in a military operation that President Obama ordered. It preceded the ten-year anniversary More>>
I can't say where this ranks in writer-director Wes Anderson's filmography, but I can certainly say that Moonrise Kingdom is one of the best movies of the year, if not the best comedy of 2012.Besides More>>
This movie could also be titled "Life of Lies." Much like Titantic (1997), this film involves a ship that sinks and it also involves two actors who play the same character at two different ages. Irrfan More>>
Wreck-It Ralph is the name of a video-game character. He's the villain in the arcade machine called "Fix-It Felix, Jr." Children come to the arcade to play this machine as well as other new and old games. More>>
The last few films starring Denzel Washington have mostly been action films. Besides the physical stunts, I don't think they have required Washington to really stretch his acting muscles. The emotions More>>
When I first saw the trailer for this film, I dismissed it as ridiculous and silly, and something I didn't want to see because the scope and ambition seemed to overreach, but once the major critics became More>>
There have been movies over the years that have been famously quoted "I'm Spartacus" from the 1960 Stanley Kubrick film stands out. "You complete me" uttered by Tom Cruise is another, as well as Jack More>>