— by JOSUE SANCHEZ — Featuring top-notch voice actors, cool 3-D animation and catchy songs, “Delhi Safari” is a tender, heartfelt and well intended animated movie for kids of all ages. Using the word safari in the title was very appropriate, since this movie is an adventurous[...]
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Review: Arbitrage
— by BEV QUESTAD — This is characterization hit out of the ballpark – and this home-run by Richard Gere in “Arbitrage” is breath-taking. He plays a slick wheeler-dealer consumed with what he calls the five ways to success: M-O-N-E-Y. Okay, let’s skip an explanation of the title ([...]
Review: Buffalo Girls
— by ADAM DALE — In Thailand, one of the more popular styles of fighting is Muay Thai in which participants box, hit and kick their opponents, all of which can result in injuries ranging from bruises to broken bones. Well, what if I told that this was all being done by young children as [...]
Review: Any Day Now
— by SHERICE ANTOINETTE — Gay marriage was a hot button issue during this year’s presidential election and next month director Travis Fine will expand upon the subject of gay rights when his film, “Any Day Now,” opens in theaters. Inspired by true events, this emotional piece is ab[...]
Review: Samsara
— by BEV QUESTAD — “Samsara” is a magical experiment in the power of sound and imagery. This glorious poem of life, set to a gentle, haunting original score, guides the viewer in a visual meditation on the nature of life. The image choices and how they are organized propel a dialogue[...]
Review: Rise of the Guardians
— by ADAM DALE — If you thought that Marvel’s “The Avengers” would be the only hero team-up film you would be seeing hitting the big screen this year, think again. Shifting from comic book heroes to fairy tales is the DreamWorks animated film “Rise of the Guardians,” which show[...]
Review: Silver Linings Playbook
— by SHERICE ANTOINETTE — Rarely do I fall in love with a film, but “Silver Linings Playbook” had me at “Excelsior,” a word Bradley Cooper’s character, Pat, chants as his mantra. We first meet Pat right as his apprehensive mother, Dolores (Jacki Weaver), picks him up from a psy[...]
Review: Lincoln
— by ADAM DALE — It is apparent by the number of films being made about the man that the legend and the lore of our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, is as strong and powerful as ever. We have already seen the man fight the undead in the ridiculous but fun “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunt[...]
Review: White Tiger (aka Belyy tigr)
— by BEV QUESTAD — The official Russian entry for the 85th Academy Award competition for best foreign language film is not quite what you’d expect – yet then again, in the country producing Dostoevsky’s anguished “Crime and Punishment,” Chekov’s depressing “Ward Number 6”[...]
Review: Field Work: A Family Farm
— by BEV QUESTAD — With rustling corn tassels, warbling bird songs, skies rippled with pinks and iridescent blues, and sometimes just the calm silence of a meandering light breeze, John Helde has interspersed this look at the family farm life with tender respect. Set to the folksy fiddle[...]
Review: The Invisible War
— by BEV QUESTAD — The invisible war in our Armed Forces is the one few know about, talk about, acknowledge or do anything about. This important film exposes the military’s silent response to violent, heartbreaking sexual assaults in the US Military perpetrated by US soldiers against U[...]
Review: The Girl
— by FIANNA MacGREGOR — They say you should never meet your heroes. After having been a teaching assistant in a couple of Hitchcock classes, I feel like he was a hero of sorts. The Birds was one of the scariest films I had seen as a child but I admit that I was more […][...]