Review: Avatar
With the pre-release rumblings and talk before the release of James Cameron’s latest movie, it’s hard not to walk into “Avatar” without having some thoughts about what you are about to watch.
Category: Reviews
Review: Up in the Air
Ryan Bingham likes to keep things simple. A constant traveler for work, he lives his life with his frequent flyer cards, his hotel reward programs, everywhere he goes, he is greeted with a chorus of, “it’s great to see you again, Mr. Bingham.” Ryan Bingham is a professional down-sizer.
DVD Review: Angels & Demons
There are two types of Ron Howard movies: those that are clearly award bait, (“Apollo 13,” “Frost/Nixon,” “A Beautiful Mind,”) and those that are not, (“The Paper,” “Ransom,” and “The Grinch.”) His most recent movie, an adaptation of Dan Brown’s best selling book, “Angels & Demons” is one of the later.
Review: Fantastic Mr. Fox
Reviewing a filmmaker’s swing at the children’s genre is usually pretty difficult and on par with reviewing a musician’s Christmas record and trying to make sense of it with the rest of their catalogue. However, Wes Anderson’s “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” is not like most children’s films.
Review: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
On paper, Werner Herzog’s most recent dramatic movie is a cop’s story, told in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. In execution, it’s a loopy, mad ride, that starts off and rarely slows for you to catch up, comprehend or rationalize what you have just seen.
DVD Review: The Girlfriend Experience
If an unknowning viewer sat down to watch Steven Soderbergh’s movie “The Girlfriend Experience,” solely on the name of it’s lead actress, (adult film star Sasha Grey,) they might be a little disappointed.
DVD Review: Emergency Squad
In Italy in the early 1970s the spaghetti western fad was slowly dying and filmgoer’s attention was now turning to poliziotteschi, a cop-and-robber brand of cinema that contained high body counts, violence and lawlessness. 1974’s “Emergency Squad,” contained all the elements, presented in an exciting and entertaining fashion.
Review: This is It
A lot of words come to mind when one thinks of Michael Jackson, legend, controversy, eccentric, but few really had an opportunity to see beneath the surface of the king of pop. Perhaps if more had had that opportunity, the mystery and controversy that surrounded the reclusive star wouldn’t have been as big a deal. …
DVD Review: Scott Walker: 30th Century Man
You may not know who Scott Walker is, or heard his music, but, I think it’s safe to say that once you’ve heard it, you’ll never forget it. Walker made his name in the 1960’s as part of the Walker Brothers, a pop group whose success, in England at least, made them bigger than the …
Review: A Christmas Carol 3D
‘A Christmas Carol’ is filmmaker Robert Zemeckis’ entry into a story that has been told countless times in a variety of different ways. Zemeckis tells his version via his favorite motion capture technique.