Queue Review: Gomorrah

This Italian mob movie isn’t as flashy or romanticized as many American gangster pictures are, but the films gritty and real life feel give the picture an extra weight and tension that you never know what is going to happen. Opening with a set of hits that sets off a civil war among gangs, we […]

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Queue Review: Jennifer’s Body

Diablo Cody’s second screenplay is full of great ideas and a number of good lines but something keeps Jennifer’s Body from gelling into a well paced and entertaining picture that seems to be hiding in there like the demons inside our title character. The story follows the school’s hottest girl Jennifer and her best friend […]

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Review: The Messenger

Oren Moverman’s The Messenger is a great honest look into the side of war we rarely see, the deceased family dealing with receiving the news of the passing, and the results are a film filled with sadness, anger, and humor surrounding this delicate and vulnerable situation. The messenger in question is a staff sergeant, Will, […]

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Review: Youth in Revolt

Youth in Revolt might look like another run of the mill Michael Cera movie, but in actuality it is one of his best acted and broadest range shown yet in a surprisingly fun and irreverent farce about fighting for the one you love. Nick Twisp is your average teenage boy, without a girl, enthralled with […]

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Review: Sherlock Holmes

Guy Ritchie teams up with Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law to reboot the classic tale and the end result is an entertaining and well acted effort that fails to ever really be anything but pretty good; not that there is anything wrong with that. Instead of going straight into traditional origins and reboot territory, […]

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Review: Leap Year

Leap Year is a conventional rom-com that makes all the prescribed moves and is entirely predictable; only its two likeable leads and excellent cinematography save it from being an absolute failure. Amy Adams and Matthew Goode are just to fine of actors to be in this trivial and run of the mill premise where the […]

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