Film Review: The Change-Up

For the past few weeks I have agonizingly pouted over email after email announcing upcoming screenings that I could not make it to in my broken state, so by the time The Change-Up rolled around I was at my breaking point.  With the giddiness of a child refusing to stop believing in Santa come Christmas […]

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Review: City Island

City Island fills its world with a couple of tad too clichéd characters and quite the contrived plot but a great turn by Andy Garcia and plenty of humor that works make it an entering family drama. The Rizzo’s are a traditional Brooklyn family, loud, fighting, and everyone is a tad dysfunctional.  Whether they are […]

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Review: Get Smart

Steve Carell stars as Maxwell Smart in this classic TV show adaptation that falls fairly flat unless a joke or gag involves the lead character. Maxwell Smart is an analyst for the secret government organization, Control, which monitors and international activity, especially that of Chaos, which has plans for world domination. Max finally has a […]

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