Film Review: Selma

Selma brutally and effectively brings a landmark moment in our country’s civil rights movement to the screen in an emotionally powerful film.

Film Review: The Grand Budapest Hotel

Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel finds him operating at the peak of his powers and as confident as he’s ever been.

Film Review: The Lone Ranger

The Lone Ranger is a bloated, brutal and beautiful western that has a lot to say about history and can be a lot of fun when it wants to.

Film Review: The Debt

When I see films like this I start to think about how The Bourne Identity and its sequels have ruined the espionage genre for many people, sometimes me included. Why I say this is because it created this want for people to Bourne out on everyone they come across, fighting for survival and being totally […]

Review: The Conspirator

Robert Redford’s latest is a fine looking and produced telling of a fairly unknown story in American history that fails to really excel to anything more than a straight forward court room drama that serves as a parallel to our modern day travails with prosecuting through Guantanamo Bay. Now you might ask how a movie […]

Review: The Green Hornet

Michel Gondry with Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s script has crafted a funny and action packed comic book/buddy picture that, while a bit long, is a fun start to 2011. Britt Reid is an heir to a media empire that has always been a playboy running amuck around town. No responsibility and an endless stream […]

Review: Duplicity

The latest from Tony Gilroy is not quite as good as his previous effort, but it is still a fun and fairly unconventional con game/spy/thriller that will have you scratching your head here and there as the plot unravels to the end. Ray Koval is former MI6, Claire Stenwick is former CIA, and after a […]

Review: Valkyrie

Tom Cruise and Bryan Singer team up for a solid suspense thriller that surrounds the conspiring, attempt, and fallout of the final assassination attempt on Adolph Hitler during WWII. Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise) is a member of the Nazi army and after his stint in North Africa, in late 1944 Stauffenberg becomes more […]

Review: RocknRolla

Guy Ritchie’s return to form in RocknRolla is a crazy, fun, and always cool look at crime in London, and while it might seem like re-tread territory to some, it is so damn entertaining that one should ask, why should we care? To begin to explain this convoluted and twisting plot from the get go […]

Archival Review: Batman Begins

Christopher Nolan reboots and revitalizes a dying franchise that takes the source material seriously and creates one of the better comic book origin films to date. Christian Bale stars as Bruce Wayne who has purposefully got himself thrown into prison and entered a life of crime to train and learn how to get back at […]

Middle of the Row

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