Reviews

[Review] How Do You Know

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

[Blu-Review] The A-Team

ā€œThey specialize in theĀ ridiculousnessā€ is a lineĀ Jessica Biel spouts early on inĀ The A-Team,Ā 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...

[Review] The Tourist

Is Angelina Jolie the closest thing we have to Audrey Hepburn? Not exactly, and Johnny Depp is not quite Cary Grant, but they have a strangely watchable non...

[Review] I Love You Phillip Morris

I Love You Phillip Morris is a surprising film, and a welcome one at that. This surprisinglyĀ conventional (in a good way) love storyĀ is the solid directoria...

[Review] The Tempest

More Across the Universe than Titus Julie Taymor's latest serves up Shakespeare with a rock reverb that fails to be as daringly original or as visually stun...