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Saturday, July 5, 2025

Film Reviews

Film Reviews
Shailene Woodley is welcomed into her new faction in Divergent.

Born This Way

I think the ideal time to see Divergent is when you’re a teenager. This dystopian science-fiction saga based on Veronica Roth’s best-selling novel is...

Turn the Page(s)

Librarians and Hollywood types don’t tend to intermingle. One group focuses on details and research, and the other exists primarily to stretch the truth,...
Surrounded by pastry boxes, Tony Revolori and Saoirse Ronan fall in love at The Grand Budapest Hotel.

Absolute Zero

“You see, there are still small glimmers of civilization amid this barbaric slaughterhouse that we know as humanity, and I like to think that...
Gonzo, Fozzie, Kermit, Miss Piggy, Rowlf, and Scooter kick up their heels for a sequel in Muppets Most Wanted.

Follow That Frog

It was great to have the Muppets back on the big screen three years ago, but now the novelty has worn off, so where...
Aaron Paul focuses behind the wheel in Need for Speed.

Chasing Cars

OK, this one’s easy. Disney is looking for its own car-chase movie to rival The Fast & The Furious while that series is on...
With mannequins in the background, Tim Jenison preps his life-size replica of Vermeer's "The Music Lesson" in Tim's Vermeer.

Beautiful Obsession

The enthralling documentary Tim’s Vermeer made a big splash when it opened last year’s Lone Star Film Festival, and this weekend it comes to...
Eva Green has two swords and an army of Persians at her back in 300: Rise of an Empire.

300 and Two

Hollywood loves to throw up sequels to successful movies, and some of them do better than others when it comes to standing on their...

There’s No Place Like Rome

Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty picked up an Oscar last week for the Best Foreign Film, so its distributors are re-releasing it after it...
Young Jiro Horikoshi holds an imaginary conversation with an Italian aviation pioneer in The Wind Rises.

Jiro Dreams of Aircraft

I never took Hayao Miyazaki seriously when he claimed that The Wind Rises would be his last movie. It seems that the now-73-year-old director...
Anton Yelchin tries to get rid of a package that someone else left at his apartment in Odd Thomas.

Odd One Out

Probably the best way to see Odd Thomas is the way I saw it. I went in cold, not knowing anything about the story...