[Review] Home
Alien invasion gets a strangely cheerful overwrite in Tim Johnson’s Home, the latest (and only) entry from DreamWorks Animation this year. The studio, that took...
Nathan Bartlebaugh
[Review] Insurgent
What’s left in the dystopia for audiences to discover? After The Hunger Games rejuvenated interest in a world broken at its very social foundations, turning on ...
[Review] Cinderella
Disney is once again, after a reasonable hiatus, back in the business of princesses. Since the studio’s surprise success and subsequent exploitation of Frozen, ...
[Review] The Lazarus Effect
I came upon a bittersweet revelation while watching Olivia Wilde wreak paranormal havoc on her co-workers in The Lazarus Effect: the tried-and-true horror trope...
[Review] Digging Up The Marrow
One look at Ray Wise, with his creased, worried face and troubled pale-blue eyes, and you’d believe he’s actually seen a hidden underground world of monsters. T...
[Review] The DUFF
The DUFF, an earnest high-school comedy that mostly feels like the dried-out, overheated leftovers of John Hughes, wants to deal in "the truth," using a ridicul...
[Review] Kingsman: The Secret Service
Kingsman: The Secret Service, the latest pairing of comic scribe Mark Millar and director Matthew Vaughn, wants to sell itself as a fresh and irreverent take on...
[Review] Seventh Son
It was a genuinely refreshing surprise to see Jeff Bridges pop up in the commercials during this past week’s Super Bowl, sitting bedside to a sleeping couple, e...
[Review] Paddington
When Michael Bond’s beloved creation Paddington first showed up in children’s books in the 1950’s, he was sitting there in the train station he’s named after, w...
Nathan Bartlebaugh’s Top 10 Films of 2014
Perhaps one of the best pleasures to be had in doing any "best of the year" list -- regardless of the medium -- is getting the opportunity to pore over just h...
