Vishniac (video review)
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Tower (2016)
The times are sadly appropriate for a documentary like Tower. At a moment in our history when rampant shootings in Orlando Florida, Aurora Colorado and the bombing in Boston are reminding us that domestic terrorism is alive and well, it is important to remember that it is not a new problem. 2016 marks the 50th […]
Snowden (2016)
Where you stand with Oliver Stone’s biopic Snowden depends largely on where you sit. If you believe that Edward Snowden was a hero who brought to light a corrupt government that was using post-9/11 paranoia as an excuse to become an omnipresent and all-intrusive Big Brother then the movie will be right up your alley. […]
Suicide Squad (2016)
It may be just the nature of the premise itself, but Suicide Squad feels oddly scummy. There’s a pall of filth and grime that seems to permeate this movie not just from the production design but from the characters themselves. Watching the movie you feel like you’re hanging out with a bunch of prison lifers […]
Nerve (2016)
Nerve is a safe, tepid treatment of a subject that is so current you’d swear the movie was made only yesterday. It’s about our all-consuming obsession with apps and online games that arrives just at the moment when half of the country is mired in ‘Pokémon Go‘ and the other half wishes they’d just put […]
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2013)
Do you remember that scene in Crocodile Dundee where Mick sees a TV in his hotel room and tells his companion that he’s only seen television once? He then turns on the set and sees “I Love Lucy” and says “Yup, that’s what I saw.” That’s kind how I feel about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: […]
The Intern (2015)
The Intern is like a stack of pancakes. It’s warm, sweet and leaves you with a touch of a belly ache. You are, no doubt, drawn in by the casting and who could resist a movie that brings together Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway? They’re the best actors of their respective generations, but – […]
The Iron Lady (2011)
I suppose that the difficulty in playing Margaret Thatcher is the same as playing Richard Nixon. Both had such well-known, distinct and distinguishable personality traits, and both had been parodied so often, that getting to the meat of the personality without mocking is a daunting task. The first thing to report about The Iron Lady, […]
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
Technically, Kevin isn’t home alone and he is not really lost in New York. The only thing honest about that title is the ‘2’. That’s not the only plot hole in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, a carbon copy retread of the highest grossing comedy of all time with almost none of that […]
