Theatrical | Movie Mezzanine

Theatrical (10 posts found)

Coming to a theater near you

‘The Last Days On Mars’ Is As Generic As Its Title

11 years ago by Andrew Johnson

Ruairi Robinson's feature debut is a bad horror film with a change of scenery.

‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ is One of the Coens’ Best Shaggy Dog Stories

11 years ago by Tina Hassannia

Warning: contains spoilers In Inside Llewyn Davis, the titular protagonist (Oscar Isaac) is yet another one of Coens’ unlucky characters, bewildered by the cruel twists of fate. But what separates Davis—loosely based on folk musician Dave Van Ronk—from the ...

Theatrical

‘Out of the Furnace’: A Sore Disappointment

11 years ago by Dan Schindel

Out of the Furnace saddens me. It's a movie that fights so hard to be great, only to wind up stranded in some middling zone of effectiveness. It has a concept and story that I want to work, told by a cast and crew of artists whom I almost uniformly like or lov...

Theatrical

‘Frozen’ Tries And Fails To Be Both Traditional And Modern

11 years ago by Dan Schindel

Disney's latest animated feature is stuck between playing it safe and trying something new.

Theatrical

Spike Lee’s ‘Oldboy’ Remake Disappoints

11 years ago by Dan Schindel

In 2003, Oldboy struck at precisely the right time for movie lovers. It was able to introduce a whole slew of canny viewers to the then-blossoming world of Korean cinema. It put director Park Chan-wook and his Vengeance Trilogy on the map. For the film, famed ...