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Valentine’s Day – Film Review

Posted on12. Feb, 2010 by Administrator.

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by Todd Gilchrist The new romantic comedy Valentine’s Day has everything – that is, except for characters and a plot. Overstuffed with star wattage and storytelling clichés but not one single idea of substance, Gary Marshall’s film only needed to be this February’s He’s Just Not That Into You, and it couldn’t even be that. [...]

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The Wolfman - Film Review

Posted on10. Feb, 2010 by Administrator.

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by Todd Gilchrist In the parlance of 19th Century England, the time and place in which the film is set, “The Wolfman” is a little bit like a mouthful of wooden teeth: Technically it gets the job done, but to even the untrained eye, it’s not a convincing substitute for something real. In an effort [...]

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Fish Tank - Film Review

Posted on19. Dec, 2009 by Administrator.

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by Brent Simon Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize winner Fish Tank, from British writer-director Andrea Arnold, is a gritty, naturalistic drama that will slowly envelop patient arthouse audiences on the strength of its powerhouse performances. A slice of social realism in the vein of Ken Loach, this slow-boil, Essex-set tale of teen alienation and acting [...]

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Everybody’s Fine - Film Review

Posted on19. Dec, 2009 by Administrator.

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by Brent Simon A sensitively told remake of Giuseppe Tornatore’s same-named 1991 Italian film, Everybody’s Fine slots in respectably as the holiday season’s obligatory commercial drama of familial reconciliation. Robert De Niro stars as Frank Goode, a blue-collar retiree and recent widower from a small, south-central suburban New York burgh who, in the wake of [...]

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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus - Film Review

Posted on18. Dec, 2009 by Administrator.

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by Brent Simon It’s hard to bear much ill will toward Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, given that it was thrown into a state of disarray when Heath Ledger passed away last year, with much but not all of the film complete. Nevertheless, the movie doesn’t really work, apart from the gobsmacked reaction [...]

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That Evening Sun - Film Review

Posted on14. Dec, 2009 by Administrator.

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by Brent Simon About this time of year, every year, there’s at least one spare, micro-budgeted indie film that features a ruminative, calling card performance by an aging actor. This year that film is That Evening Sun, and that actor is Hal Holbrook, Oscar-nominated a few years back for Into the Wild. Based on a [...]

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Me and Orson Welles - Film Review

Posted on13. Dec, 2009 by Administrator.

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It won’t be for this pleasant bauble — and there’s no way to tell exactly for what it will be, given his varied filmography — but Richard Linklater will eventually win an Academy Award. The Texas-born indie auteur brings to bear his characteristically spry touch to yet another very different sort of movie than he’s [...]

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Youth in Revolt - Film Review

Posted on13. Dec, 2009 by Administrator.

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In everything from Arrested Development to big screen hits Superbad and Juno, Michael Cera has traded on self-negating humor and muttered, sardonic asides. He shakes loose of that character template (well, partially, at least) in Youth in Revolt, a picaresque booster shot of wily irreverence that puts a fresh, outrageous spin on adolescent obsession and [...]

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Up in the Air - Film Review

Posted on13. Dec, 2009 by Administrator.

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It’s rare, the film so perfectly bittersweet that it can put a smile on your face even as it simultaneously puts a lump in your throat or a pang of wincing recognition on your face, but that’s the case with Up in the Air, which exists at the perfect intersection of snappish fun, modulated gravity, [...]

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The Road - Film Review

Posted on13. Dec, 2009 by Administrator.

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Adapted by Joe Penhall from Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning, desperately bleak and heartbreaking novel of the same name, The Road is a post-apocalyptic tale of the survival of an unnamed father (Viggo Mortensen) and his 11-year-old son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) as they journey toward the coast across a barren United States which has been destroyed by [...]

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