— by MARIUSZ ZUBROWSKI — Sherlock Holmes is no doubt one of the most recognizable characters in fiction to date and director Guy Ritchie has courage to put his unique touch to the legend. Though Ritchie is not the best director in the business, his films do tend to be entertaining and[...]
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Trailer Talk: ‘The Warlords’
— by ROBERT DeFEIS — Jet Li stars as General Pang in this epic war film (previously known as “The Blood Brothers”). I have to say watching Jet Li is fun and yet almost every movie he comes out with has terrible reviews. I am definitely looking forward to watching him[...]
Under Review: ‘It’s Complicated’
— by JOEL CRARY — Meryl Streep’s Golden Globe nomination for “It’s Complicated” may prove that the actor could draw awards for any role, no matter how pedestrian — compared with her other nominated work in films such as “Doubt” and[...]
Trailer Talk: ‘Knight and Day’
— by TOM ELCE — With the lousy “Identity,” director James Mangold suggested a gift (quite accidentally) for the preposterous, and so it’s no surprise that his forthcoming film “Knight and Day,” an action-comedy that immediately looks preferable to films like[...]
Under Review: ‘Nine’
— by MARIUSZ ZUBROWSKI — “Nine” is like the “Big Mouth Billy Bass” advertised on late-night television; it sings, it dances and it works as a wall-ornament, but it also lacks emotion. And though Rob Marshall’s third film works as a sub-par musical, it is[...]
Two Clips from ‘Diagnosis Death’
— by ROBERT DeFEIS — This film is actually a horror comedy and from the clips that you see, I’m not really sure were the comedy is. The first clip shows Dr. Cruise (Bret McKenzie) bickering with the nurse over whether the patient lying on the floor is having a convulsion or a seizure; [...]
Revisiting ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’
— by JOEL CRARY — “It’s a Wonderful Life” is the story of a man who feels his life being pulled away from him, year by year, as he struggles to keep a destiny within his sights. George Bailey, as played by cinema great James Stewart, is an institutive American character perhaps unr[...]
Trailer Talk: ‘Cop Out’
— by ROBERT DeFEIS — Originally titled “A Couple of Dicks,” the now more appropriately titled “Cop Out” is a buddy cop comedy film written by brothers Mark Cullen and Robb Cullen and directed by Kevin Smith. The films the Cullen brothers write are usually very dialogue-heavy and [...]
Short Film Theater: ‘Seeking You’
— by ROBERT DeFEIS — In this short, you will find a man who has lost his love and in turn goes out to find her in the night of Hong Kong. He learns that the love he feels for this woman is nothing other than a love for this city, and that this woman[...]
‘The Hobbit’: A Premise of Contradictions?
— by BEN FOWLER — I could not be more split down the middle when it comes to the thought of a “Hobbit” film/s. Don’t get me wrong, I want to see “The Hobbit” onscreen. But when I read stories and information released about what they are planning and quotes from the film[...]
Five Clips from ‘The Last Station’
— by BEN FOWLER — Could you have a more “all-star” team of actors than director Michael Hoffman has assembled for “The Last Station”? Christopher Plummer, Helen Mirren, Paul Giamatti and James McAvoy all star in “The Last Station,” based on the biographical[...]
Inside ‘Up’: Carl and Ellie from Concept to Finish
— by JASON EAKEN — When “Up” came out this past summer, it caught many people, myself included, by surprise by its impeccable, beautiful rendering of the marriage between Carl and Ellie. It is many people’s favorite moment in the film, and its power looms over the rest [...]
Short Film Theater: ‘It Shines and Shakes and Laughs’
— by MARIUSZ ZUBROWSKI — “It Shines and Shakes and Laughs” looks and sounds like a film from 20 years ago; this is no “Panic Attack” — another short film that produced awe-inspiring special-effects for a couple hundred dollars, but this is part of[...]
A Featurette from ‘The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus’
— by ROBERT DeFEIS — “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” is a fantastical morality tale, set in the present day. It tells the story of Dr. Parnassus (Christopher Plummer) and his extraordinary Imaginarium, a travelling show where members of the audience get an irresistible[...]