Film Reviews
Current films, current DVD's and forgotten classics are reviewed in our effort to save you time in your pursuit of an interesting and entertaining evening at the movies.
The Lost Boys
Not just another teen angst meets brood vampire movie, "The Lost Boys" has always been special to me.
December 31st, 2010
Funny People
Inorder to rediscover his comedy, Adam Sandler reverted to the worst within the ego of an overindulged former stand-up comedian turned low-brow actor
December 30th, 2010
Julie & Julia
Julia Child was the most influential culinary author of all time. Julie Powell respected that fact and piggy-backed her ambition on the shoulders of a very big woman.
December 30th, 2010
Wonderful World
Director Joshua Goldin directs Mathew broderck in this tale of a man reawakening from deep concious dream of living a lfe with goblet of rather cheap wine always half empty.
December 30th, 2010
The Ugly Truth
I think Gerard Butler is a fine actor in the right film and the right script. This was not that film.
December 30th, 2010
Extract
Mike Judge, the personafication of hit or miss, writes and directs what will become a comedy classic.
December 30th, 2010
Red Cliff
In 208 AD, events were set in place in ancient China that pitched a huge battle between the Northern aggressors upon two provinces in the South, which set the troubled tone for centuries.
December 30th, 2010
Inglourious Basterds
For all of you, and your descendents, there is the extreme Jewish fantasy film, "Inglourious Basterds," to quell your immediate hunger for the ultimate revenge for that ultimate transgression.
December 30th, 2010
Wyatt Earp
"But Now he's (Wyatt) Going to be a Marshal and an Outlaw. Best of Both Worlds, Son." These words were spoken by a tubercular Doc Holliday, played by a gaunt 145 pound Dennis Quaid, to Warren Earp, played by a young Jim Caviezel, in the junior classic "Wyatt Earp," which sums up the life of a comple
December 30th, 2010
Pulp Fiction
Lightweight Subject is Built into a Heavyweight Classic Just the film title itself, "Pulp Fiction" denotes a lightweight film. If one dissects the story, the message, the importance of the film, "Pulp Fiction" comes up light. Under most circumstances most people should ask themselves why they could
December 30th, 2010
Angels and Demons
Tom Hanks reprises his role as symbologist Robert Langdon as he struggles against all odds to save what he has little reverence for - the Vatican.
December 30th, 2010
E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial
Director Steven Spielberg chooses relatively unknown actors for his cast to go one step further to create a sense of familiarity in the audience.
December 30th, 2010
A Christmas Story
Jean Shepherd's humorist view a of one family's Christmas skewed toward the bizarre in a very cold northern Indiana - very industrial, very middleclass, and of course, very funny.
December 30th, 2010
Inkheart
Fairy tales do come true, but oh what a winding and precarious road they can take.
December 30th, 2010
John Adams
"John Adams survives" were the final words of John Adams' nemesis turned enduring confidant, Thomas Jefferson, while the genius Virginian was on his deathbed.
December 30th, 2010
It's a Wonderful Life
Major Capra was fresh from his stint in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. Colonel Stewart had just provided the U.S. Army Air Corps his best years. And these two great patriots made one great film.
December 30th, 2010
Public Enemies
The government named these bank robbers "public enemies," with John Dillinger as "Public Enemy No. 1." Ironically, the public saw the government, not the robbers as the real enemy.
December 30th, 2010
Taxi Driver
Travis Bickle is "God's lonely man," peering at New York through the rear-view mirror of his taxi cab. Though he tries to make sincere human connections, Bickle finds himself lonelier.
December 30th, 2010
The Royal Tenenbaums
"The Royal Tenenbaums" is the Wes Anderson / Owen Wilson classic that put their fine films on the radar screen for me.
December 30th, 2010
Unforgiven
Clint Eastwood directs this classic, for which he won the Oscar, and he proved, once again, in his role as former gun for hire, William Munny, that he is also a great actor.
December 30th, 2010
The Godfather: Part II
Michael Corleone, the youngest son of the venerable Don, grew into the role of the crime family's Godfather, but it was never a good fit.
December 30th, 2010
The Godfather
This Francis Ford Coppola classic, about a man trying to hold his family together while seeking the American Dream, launched the careers of a number of America's greatest actors.
December 30th, 2010
Inglourious Basterds
Quentin Tarantino, a provacateur of inordinate skill, gives his public a fine film regarding the Jewish fantasy of near total retibution for the horrific treatment of the Jews at the hands of Nazis.
December 30th, 2010
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
In this prequel to the X-Men series, we learn the origin of Logan (Wolverine) and his brother, Victor Creed, and what happens as their similar fates diverge.
December 30th, 2010
The Proposal
Finally, a romantic comedy that works. I generally do not like romantic comedies. Often they exhibit too little comedy, and are too unbelievable.
December 30th, 2010
Band of Brothers
They came from all over the United States to become part of something new - the 101st Airborne. These young Americans learned how to fight, but moreover, they learned to be brothers.
December 30th, 2010
Vanilla Sky versus Open Your Eyes
Vanilla Sky, as the remake of the Spanish film Open Your Eyes, is one of the most misunderstood films of that decade, and is generally faded as the lesser film as the remake.
December 30th, 2010
Cold Mountain
Inman is driven toward his inevitable purpose in this love story set against the backdrop of the Civil War in Virginia and North Carolina.
December 30th, 2010
Once Upon a Time in the West
Once Upon a Time in the West is a surreal exploration of an Italian director's view of the lawless West.
December 30th, 2010
Big Fish
One of the 10 best films in the last 25 years is the film that offers each of us a unique perspective into our well considered lives.
December 30th, 2010
Coraline
Director Henry Selick used 450 animators / technicians and over 50 separate sets to produce an innovative animated film,
December 30th, 2010
In the Loop
This British Comedy, hailed by some as the best in years, is all talk and little believable substance.
December 30th, 2010
Camille
Camille was possibly one of the sweetest girls in Kentucky, but she was also possibly the most naive. And don't naive girls deserve some measure of happiness too.
December 30th, 2010
Sling Blade
This tiny independent film is an enigma. It is also one of the ten most important indies in the last 25 years for one reason: It could not have survived, and prospered without its singular visionary.
December 30th, 2010