However inconsistent Weekly Review might be at this point, I’m trying to revitize it…especially since I’m sick at home and have nothing better to do. In the theater this week, I relished the much awaited fall season with screenings of the excellent Dallas Buyers Club and Captain Phillips. Fluffy popcorn flicks (Ocean’s Twelve, Abraham Lincoln:...
Machete Kills is not for everyone. There are plenty of things about this film that, if taken in anything less than a humorous and accommodating mood will offend many outright,…
Zefferelli’s 1968 version of the play remains the most competent, true to source, and enduring version of the traditional play (It’s also on Netflix). Luhrmaan’s controversial adaptation broke away from…
As a biopic, it's uncompromising and doggedly raw. As a thriller, it defines "being on pins and needles". As a showcase for Tom Hanks, it serves as a major highlight…
All in all, this is a movie you should simply avoid. It's not scary. It's not funny. It's not ironic. It's white bread soaked in water. It's such a dullard…
On the final leg though, We Are What We Are delivers on its foreboding sense of terror and unleashes a whopper of a finale. For all the carefully footed build…
It's not quite bad enough to stand too firmly against but it's far too soft to inspire any level of recommendation. Ultimately, Runner Runner is best left for a lazy…
The footage is there, it just needs coherence, which proper editing could provide. An argument can be made, that the editing style was supposed to make the audience feel the…
Often told with the wandering panache of a drunkard on Funny or Die's Drunk History, Parkland has neither foresight into what makes a film interesting nor any captivating power over…