“Green Zone” (Film Review)
by: GregVictor
* (out of 4 stars)
Starring: Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear, Amy Ryan
Director: Paul Greengrass
Rating: R (violence, strong language)
The most recent bomb of the Iraq War is Green Zone, the most ingenuous revisionist film about war to come along in recent memory. Being touted as some sort of Bourne WMD, it attempts to be a mainstream action [...]
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“Herb and Dorothy” (Film Review) (Trailer)
On December 4, 2009 at 11:30 am
*** ½ (out of 4)
Director: Magumi Sasaki
If you can’t join ‘em – collect ‘em. That could easily have been the mantra for Herb and Dorothy Vogel, a couple who back in the 1960s patronized and befriended then-unknown artists. They came from humble beginnings (he sorted mail at the Postal Service; she a librarian), and they [...]
Movie Section Editor’s Film of the Week
On December 3, 2009 at 5:15 am
Ben Stiller has long been one of my favorite comedic talents. From his hilarious role in the kids film Heavyweights to the brain dead model in Zoolander, everything he does makes me laugh!! Stiller is usually at his best when he directs, which is why Tropic Thunder is my favorite film of his as well [...]
The Stoning of Soraya M (Review) (Trailer)
On December 1, 2009 at 8:28 am
Tackling a tough subject matter such as the events surrounding a barbaric stoning is never an easy task. Director Cyrus Nowrasteh displays exactly how to do that while keeping the audience engaged instead of repulsed. I had the pleasure of seeing this film and meeting Cyrus at a conference in Palm Beach, Florida this past [...]
THAT EVENING SUN (Film Review) (Trailer)
On November 30, 2009 at 12:39 am
** ½ (out of four)
Rating: PG-13 (violence, disturbing images)
Director: Scott Teems
“That Evening Sun” is a quiet little film about an old man named Abner Meecham (played by the dependable Hal Holbrook), who refuses to disappear from life simply because he is aged, and therefore irrelevant. He walks out of the nursing home his son has [...]
Thanksgiving Movies
On November 25, 2009 at 11:14 am
Maybe you consider vampires and werewolves passé since Halloween was over weeks ago. Maybe you just aren’t ready to deal with Scrooge in 3-D quite yet. So maybe you’re just not into going out to a movie this weekend. How about staying in and watching a classic November film instead? Whatever the case, somewhere between [...]
New Movies! (Trailers)
On November 24, 2009 at 10:39 am
Check out the latest new movies. Which ones have you seen?
Planet 51
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The Twilight Saga: New Moon
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The Blind Side
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Bad Lieutennant: Port Call of New Orelans
PIRATE RADIO (Film Review) (TRAILER)
On November 23, 2009 at 10:21 am
* 1/2 (out of four)
Rating: R (strong language, brief nudity, subject matter)
Director: Richard Curtis
Imagine government-controlled airwaves, with politicians deciding what music is deemed listenable. It sounds like Tipper Gore is in charge, but in fact we are talking about the British government in 1964. In researching the movie “Pirate Radio,” the truth had to be [...]
Movie Section Editor’s Film of the Week (VIDEO)
On November 17, 2009 at 9:53 am
One of the greatest gangster films ever made, Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas, is my film of the week. For most of us, we were hooked upon hearing the words “as far back as I could remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.”
The film is based on Nicholas Pileggi’s Wise Guy, which is about the life [...]
THE BOX (Film Review)
On November 12, 2009 at 8:00 am
* * 1/2 (out of 4)
Rating: PG-13 (violence, disturbing images)
Director: Richard Kelly
What’s in “The Box”? I’ll tell you. A little bit of: “The Twilight Zone,” “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” “Indecent Proposal,” “The Stepford Wives,” “Faust,” and a good dose of classic fiction from Shirley Jackson.
It is also a film that very few people will [...]
2012 Director Avoids Terrorist Jihad
On November 10, 2009 at 8:34 am
Once upon a time Hollywood was not afraid to use America’s most passionate enemy in their films. This, of course, would be the radical Islamic terrorists as seen in films like True Lies, The Seige, and Executive Decision. However, in this post-9/11 world many filmmakers have been scared into leaving the Islamic terrorists out of [...]
A SERIOUS MAN (Film Review, Trailer)
On at 5:28 am
* * ½ (out of 4)
Rating: R (profanity, brief nudity, brief violence)
Director: Joel and Ethan Coen
In “A Serious Man,” the writing-directing brother team of Joel and Ethan Coen make their most personal film yet. The film is set in suburban Minneapolis in 1967, and although it is a memory film about a very serious time [...]
Movies Section Editor’s Film of the Week (trailer)
On November 9, 2009 at 5:53 am
This week my pick is the always fun Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. First time director Shane Black made waves with this stylish film noir parody that is slick from every angle. The film takes place in modern day L.A., a perfect backdrop for questionable party themes (people in boxes and cages passed off as “art”), [...]
