9 years ago
Reviews (10 posts found)
“Mr Peabody and Sherman”: …And Equality For All!
Films for kids are never only for kids. Even if meant just as a carrier and safety-provider, an adult guardian is always present alongside its 3,4, even 11 year old in the cinema seat, equally deserving at least partial recognition during the screening. Mr. Pe...
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“300: Rise of an Empire” Is Less A Movie; More a Video Game Cutscene
Starting somewhere around the time of the Star Wars prequels, critics began describing certain movies as "looking like video games." Since most of said critics weren't too familiar with the visual feel of video games at all, what they really meant was that the...
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“Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons”: Another Giddily Over-the-Top Fantasy Epic from Stephen Chow
For audiences habitually hungry for visual feasts of movement and mayhem, lapping up Stephen Chow’s films can be irresistible. That unstoppable box office titan of Hong Kong cinema’s wired filmmaking flair is evident as ever in his ninth feature as director, t...
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“Jodorowsky’s Dune”: Revealing a Visionary
A review of the documentary entitled "Jodorowsky's Dune".
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Hitchcock Inspired “Grand Piano” Bangs Its Drum To A Different, Wholly Unique Beat
Elijah Wood stars in the Magnolia produced thriller, "Grand Piano".
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Don’t Look Inside “The Bag Man”
Growing up on a steady, diverse stream of cinema is one major prerequisite to becoming a filmmaker. Equally important, however, is the possession of personal vision. David Grovic, the first-time director of Cinedigm's The Bag Man, clearly has the former requir...
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“The Rocket” Wins Your Heart Even When It Doesn’t Soar
The "crowd pleaser" is a strange kind of film. They are simultaneously able to garner both the most praise and the most backlash all at once. Take for instance The Shawshank Redemption, which still holds the #1 film slot on iMDB's Top 250 list. A great film, I...
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“The Lunchbox”: A Perfectly Pleasant Date Movie
The romantic comedy as we knew it may be dead and gone, but if you know where to look, there are movies out there with both romance and humor in good measure, even if they don't fit the box of the traditional "rom-com." Films like Enough Said and The Lunchbox ...
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“Two Lives” & The Third Reich’s Continued Legacy
Even though we're many years beyond the Holocaust and its endless horrors, we can still detect tremors of its seismic impact today. This thought must have, at one point or another, crossed the mind of German filmmaker Georg Maas, who borrows liberally from a p...
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“Fatal Assistance”: Lethal Charity
230,000 dead. 300,000 wounded. 1,500,000 homeless. The January 2010 earthquake has taken an unbelievably cruel toll on the struggling Haitian community. One might think surviving this nightmare is enough of a blessing. Raoul Peck, a Haitian born documentary fi...
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