Off the Island
Clint Eastwood shot Letters From Iwo Jima and Flags of Our Fathers as companion pieces.
The latter film came out last October, telling the...
Sex and Brandy
Aubrey Plaza gets herself a whole new act in The To Do List, ditching the jaded, sarcastic persona she assumes on TV’s Parks and...
Noah: Biblical Match Maker
Has Darren Aronofsky long held a desire to make a Lord of the Rings movie? Because Noah bears a lot of stylistic similarities to...
Gonna Fly Now
For whatever reason, I never got invested in the Rocky series. I haven’t even seen most of the sequels. So perhaps I’m being presumptuous...
Oscar’s Gold
The Academy Awards are being held later than usual this year because of the Winter Olympics, and this has likely contributed to some actual...
Backstabbing for Beginners: Diplomatic Impunity
The first problem with Backstabbing for Beginners is its title. It sounds like the name of a bitchy Heathers-like black comedy set in a...
Bachelorette: Maids of Dishonor
Remember that post-Bridesmaids wave of ill-behaved female humor that I mentioned last week? It reaches high tide this week with Bachelorette, a comedy that...
Prometheus: “Get It Out of Me!”
To answer your first question about Ridley Scott’s Prometheus: Yes, it is a prequel to his 1979 sci-fi classic Alien. The director has hemmed...
More Than Meets the “I”
In a fresh look at a tired argument, director Mike Cahill adds his flavor to the ongoing evolution-versus-creationism battle with I Origins, and after...
West Side Story: Mambo!
I’m not a fan of the 1961 film of West Side Story. Sure, the dancing was fantastic, but the lead performances by Richard Beymer...
