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‘Upstream Color’ is Off Balance but Worthy

Upstream Color is fascinating but flawed.  The first 30 minutes are just incredible. That Act 1 is utterly original and it sets an intriguing tone for a very strange and haunting film. Those initial scenes are ...

‘Wrong’ is a Whole Lot of Wonderful Weird

Wrong is a ‘Love It or Hate It’ kind of film, much like Rubber writer/director Quentin Dupeiux’s other film and I imagine all his films to come. For me, the weirder the better so I loved ...

Review: ‘The Croods’ – A Stone Age Tale and A Polished Animated Feature

The Croods didn’t look appealing to me at first sight. When I saw the trailer for this film way back when, I wasn’t completely sold that this was going to be as good looking as Dreamworks ...

Review: ‘Jack Reacher’ – Giving Skyfall A Run For Its Money

I dislike him as much as you do. Walking into the theater to see Tom Cruise play Tom Cruise has become a tired affair. But Jack Reacher proves, within the very first scene, that this movie ...

Review: ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Is A Thrill Ride

Let’s first establish the fact that this is a movie review. I am considering such things as the writing, the camerawork, the acting, the story, and the visceral reaction that may or may not occur as ...

‘Anna Karenina’: An Adept Adaptation -Review

What a wonderful surprise to see an adaptation of classic literature that felt so fresh.Anna Karenina’s visual look straight out of a painting from The Hermitage but the film has more life than a painting as ...

Grab Bag Review: ‘Looper’ Breaks the Cycle of Bad Sci-fi

Nicely done, writer/director Rian Johnson, nicely done. I’ll try not to give anything away because this is one of those films that is much better going in as fresh as possible.  I love genre mixing and ...

Review: ‘Hotel Transylvania’ – A Kids Movie That Isn’t Blah, Blah, Blah

Okay, so the title I used here is a bit of an inside joke if you’ve already seen the movie. But, it works just the same. Most of the kids movies this year have been hit ...