Film Review: Into the Woods

Into the Woods opens in wide release on Christmas Day, December 25th. Check your local listings for showtimes. Adapting stage musicals to the big screen is hard. While the screen may loom over the audience like some all-encompassing monolith, it still never feels big enough to capture the spectacle of live theater. Compounding the problem …

Film Review: Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit opens in theaters everywhere today, January 17. Check your local listings for showtimes. January is both a great and terrible time for film. On the plus side, nominations and awards are handed out for the year’s “best” films. While all of these films saw at least a limited release before the …

Film Review: Star Trek Into Darkness

In the past few years, the feeling of excitement and wonderment I’d once gotten out of big-budget summer tentpoles has been missing; I assumed I’d outgrown it. But with the latest entry in the “Star Trek” franchise, J.J. Abrams has brought that anticipation back to the summer movie line-up. With “Star Trek: Into Darkness,” Abrams …

Capt. Kirk to Play Jack Ryan

He helped revive one franchise, why not two?  Reports this morning say that Chris Pine, best known for playing James Kirk in J.J. Abrams’ “Star Trek,” movie, will be playing Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan character in a re-boot of the series.  Ryan had been played in previous movies by Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford and Ben …

Review: Star Trek

Finally, a film that lives up to the hype. J.J. Abrams reboot of ‘Star Trek’ is one of the most fun, entertaining movies of the year. The film takes the franchise to the roots, where Captain James Kirk is a mere cadet, joining Starfleet at the beckoning of Captain Christopher Pike.