Reviews

[Review] Welcome to the Rileys

Welcome to the Rileys isn't as creepy or as smaltzy as it could have been. The script, if handled inappropriately or in a blunt manner could have led to a h...

[Review] Hereafter

After a string of underwhelming misfires, Clint Eastwood marks his return to success with his latest drama Hereafter. Keep in mind, this is a minor success ...

[Review] The Art of the Steal

The Art of the Steal is one of the most taut political thrillers I have ever seen. The fact that the film is a documentary only lends to its intrigue. He...

[Review] Leaves of Grass

Leaves of Grass, like its characters, is manic. It's tonally insane, but that's not a slant. The insanity at hand plays perfectly into the situation and its...

[Review] Red

Red can best be described by simply shrugging one's shoulders. It's the perfect physical reaction to fit this action/comedy where there is very little to ho...

[Review] Jackass 3D

Look at the photo above. That is what's in Jackass 3D, the new film from American idiots like Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Bam Margera, and Wee M...

[Review] Stone

Robert De Niro in a good film? And he delivers an exceptional performance as well? It's been far too long for one to say that and it couldn't be more satisfying to admit....

[Review] Shooting April

This year's Buffalo International Film Festival offered a program of horror films that opened with Alfred Hitchcock’s Pyscho. Shooting April, the first narr...

[Review] My Soul To Take

My Soul To Take is bland cinematic comfort food, evoking pleasant childhood memories of the Scream series, the type of pre-9/11 horror film that wasn’t so s...

[Review] Nowhere Boy

Sam Taylor-Wood’s feature-film debut Nowhere Boy, is a thoroughly engaging biopic of John Lennon’s teenage years, chronically his journey as a musician from his first guitar purchase to the formation of his first band, The Quarrymen, and their eventual evolution into The Beatles. That is what you’d expect from a John Lennon biopic, and undoubtedly a reason why many will go see the film, but what really gives the film depth and soul is the focus it gives to his early home life with two mother figures- his Aunt Mimi and his mother Julia....