Reviews

[Review] Casino Jack

If you were to imagine a B-version of Goodfellas in the world of politics, you'd get Casino Jack. George Hickenlooper's final film is a a hit-and-mess tale ...

[Review] Yogi Bear

Yogi Bear is a live-action/animated hybrid that follows very closely in the tradition of the well-established sub-genre of Warner Brothers cartoons. Not wit...

[Review] How Do You Know

Several years ago, perhaps while out of my formative years, I saw the music video for Seether’s “Fine Again,” which contains a particularly striking image: ...

[Blu-Review] The A-Team

“They specialize in the ridiculousness” is a line Jessica Biel spouts early on in The A-Team, and that line represents the film as a whole. It’s nothing but...

[Review] TRON: Legacy

TRON: Legacy is both distancing and oddly engaging. This 28-years later sequel could not be more similar to the first installment. It runs at a mild pace, is ...

[Review] True Grit

Oscar winner Jeff Bridges has managed to star in one of the best and one of the worst films of 2010; True Grit is the former. Masterfully crafted by the Ame...

[Review] The Fighter

Like every David O. Russell film before it, The Fighter, starring Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams and Melissa Leo, is an aggravatingly uneven and i...

[Review] Tron: Legacy

Having very little attachment to the original Tron, I was expecting middling results going into architect-turned-director Joseph Kosinski's Tron: Legacy. Gi...

[Book Review] The Art of Hammer

To quote The Art of Hammer introduction (which quotes the poster for the Hammer Films flick Creatures the World Forgot): "They don't make them like this a...