Firth of Force
Talented though he is, Colin Firth has never shown that much range. While his close contemporary Hugh Grant has made a career out of...
I Taped an Alien
If The Fourth Kind had come out next spring, we could have dismissed it as a Johnny-come-lately rip-off of Paranormal Activity. Coming out now,...
Marty Supreme: Paddle to the Metal
A couple of years ago, people started speaking of Timothée Chalamet and other male actors as “rodent men,” with their prominent teeth and messy...
Remember Me: An Affair to Forget
Oscar Wilde once wrote, “All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.” I’m not sure to what extent that applies to movies, but one reason...
Eddington: American Disease
There was a psychological study that stated that people who habitually watched horror movies tended to bear up better during the isolation of the COVID...
Here Come the Hardys
You can see the reasoning behind Legend. In casting Tom Hardy as the identical twin brothers who ran London’s organized crime scene in the...
Camp Rock
This is why I love my job: Sometimes I'm pleasantly surprised when I expect nothing. Bandslam is a cookie-cutter teen comedy released in the...
Helicopter Parenting
A few weeks ago in my review of Hello, My Name Is Doris, I wrote about the slight uptick we’re seeing in movies made...
Harry’s End
Ladies and gentlemen, this is the end of the line. The Hogwarts Express has reached its final destination. Please make sure to gather up...
Idiocracy
Throughout his career, Forest Whitaker has always been the nice guy.
Despite his large frame, he’s never cut much of a threatening figure on...
