Well Drilled
I did something unusual while preparing to write my review of There Will Be Blood: I read everybody else's reviews.
Specifically, I read the ones...
I, Robot
The Terminator was about time-traveling robots from the future sent to kill an unborn child named John Connor before he could grow up...
Robots in Distress
The time seems ripe for a re-evaluation of Michael Bay. It’s been almost 10 years since his Armageddon ruled the box office by sheer...
Double Dare
Duplicity is the second film by Tony Gilroy, the longtime screenwriter who made a smashing directorial debut in 2007 with Michael Clayton. You...
Shiny Penny
Penelope is one of those movies that looks really bad on paper.
A PG-rated female self-empowerment fable about an anatomical freak seeking the happiness that...
Earthly Delight
Just when you think you’ve seen every type of Hollywood family drama, along comes something nice to revitalize your faith in mainstream cinema.
Based on...
Men With Choppers
Some years ago, political satirist Mark Russell observed that guys caught in mid-life crises tended to handle them in one of three ways: They...
Tru and Two
Infamous tells the story of author Truman Capote and his career-defining decision to write In Cold Blood, his novel about a mass murder in...
Army of Shadows
When Mat Hames was growing up in Grand Prairie, he managed to convince his mom one day that he’d been kidnapped. Not amused, she...
Financial Times
It's easy to read too much into the similarities between a movie and the moment that it comes out. Two markedly different movies out...
