Review: Where The Wild Things Are

Spike Jonze’s long delayed adaptation of the beloved novel Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak finally has hit the screens and the results are more or less wonderful on every level. Our hero is Max, a young nine year old with a wild side that can emerge from his everyday child hood demeanor […]

Review: The Invention Of Lying

Ricky Gervais makes his American writing and directing debut with the help of Matthew Robinson and the results are a dramedy that doesn’t deliver the laugh a minute pace you might be expecting, but it doesn’t try to and it works fairly well. The premise of the film is very high concept and takes place […]

Suggestion Box (Oct. 5 – 11)

A Nightmare on Elm Street Trailer – The closest thing I have seen to a film from this series is Freddy vs. Jason, and I am not going to hold that against this movie. And as much as some remakes (or “reimaginings”) can blow, nothing will take my excitement away. Check it out here. Legend […]

Review: The Boys Are Back

Scott Hicks’ adaptation of the memoir of a man left to raising his son after the loss of his wife seems like a depressing subject matter, but the results are an uplifting and unique look at parenting, whether you agree or disagree with the way he goes about things, and its delivered in a top […]

Review: Couples Retreat

Peter Billingsly’s feature debut with screenwriting stars and duo Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau have created a relationship comedy that has a number of interesting points on couples, but really lacks a lot of good humor and drags at a miserable pace for the last forty five minutes or so. Dave, Jason, Shane, and Joey […]

The Decade’s Best – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

Ang Lee’s – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) On the surface, Lee’s film is a martial arts movie with elaborate set pieces, beautiful choreography, and noble heroes. But under that surface making the film what it is are layers upon layers of sub plots and stories that create wonderful characters and an intimate story that […]

Review: Zombieland

Ruben Fleischer’s feature debut is an extremely fun zombie comedy that is definitely more comedy than any of the many other genres on display here, which isn’t a bad thing since it is frequently hilarious. The zombie apocalypse is well under way in the United States and the living dead vastly outnumber the living. We […]

Suggestion Box (Sept. 28 – Oct. 4)

Up in the Air Trailer – George Clooney traveling a lot. Sounds like an amazing premise, right? But it still looks great. Check it out here. The Crazies Trailer – Zombie-like rage filled victims, government quarantines suppressing both the infected and the healthy, and an amazing song. Check it out here. And if you want […]

Review: Whip It

Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut is a fun, humorous, and uplifting tale that appeals to all audiences with its themes about being yourself and not bashing anyone along the way and it is about as fun as a movie can get when it is firing on all cylinders. Bliss Cavendar is a seventeen year old girl […]

Where Is My Halo Movie?

It’s obvious Bungie knows what they are doing when making commercials and can help produce a fantastic picture if they are creative and astheticlay involved, so why oh why do we not have a Halo movie in the pipeline? Neil Blomkamp was picked by Peter Jackson to bring Halo to life a couple years ago […]