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REVIEW: Knight And Day
What’s silly, somewhat corny and contrived, and stuffed to the gills with action? That would be “Knight And Day.” But my real question is this – so what? It provides that shot of summer adrenaline that...
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REVIEW: Green Lantern
The old adage traditionally goes “money can’t buy you happiness,” but in respect to the latest Hollywood comic book adaptation, “Green Lantern,” money can’t buy you quality. The higher the pedestal,...
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REVIEW: Blue Jasmine
Woody Allen’s latest feature shows our most prolific filmmaker access a side of his writing seldom seen: dark and unsparingly grim tragedy. I’ve seen all of his 48 films, and perhaps not since 1992′s...
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REVIEW: Night Moves
London Film Festival, 2013 Kelly Reichardt’s ecoterrorist drama “Night Moves” starts off with all the right moves. As she details the steps that a group of activists take to blow up a hydroelectric...
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REVIEW: Black Mass
A movie like “Black Mass” is essentially the cinematic calendar whispering, “Winter is coming.” It’s a gentle reminder that we are inching ever closer to a glut of prestige dramas filling screens...
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REVIEW: Pawn Sacrifice
The tortured, abrasive genius has gotten a lot of play recently – the 2014 Toronto Film Festival alone saw the premiere of “The Imitation Game,” “The Theory of Everything,” and “Pawn Sacrifice,” all of...
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Social Scientists Behaving Badly (REVIEWS: The Stanford Prison Experiment and...
In my first semester of college, I took an introductory sociology class on a whim and wound up loving it so much that I added fifteen additional hours to my schedule to make it my second major....
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F.I.L.M. of the Week (September 8, 2016)
As someone who lives with two canine companions, I can certainly sympathize with Molly Shannon’s Peggy in “Year of the Dog.” Relationships with humans are tough. How dare they do this, but they...
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REVIEW: Jackie
New York Film Festival Biopics are for the fans. No matter how revisionist the narrative or inventive the form, the genre exists to privilege the audience over the subject. Instead of learning facts...
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REVIEW: The Magnificent Seven
“Progressive” is hardly a common adjective used in conjunction with the western genre, at least ones that are made in the classical (as opposed to revisionist) style. And yet that’s essentially what...
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