They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those [...]
Archive for March, 2014
Muppets Most Wanted (2014)
The Muppets are overjoyed to find themselves in yet another sequel. As their new movie Muppets Most Wanted opens, they not only acknowledge it but – in true Muppets fashion – they turn this fact into a production number. The Muppets have always worn their self-referential style on their sleeves, so they are wise enough […]
In the Blood (2014)
In the Blood has nearly the same plot as the Liam Neeson thriller Taken but it is much easier to swallow. Here again is another movie about someone who finds that their loved one has been kidnapped and must twist and turn into a seamy underworld to bring them back. The difference between the two […]
Noah (2014)
There are a lot of things to admire about Darren Aronofsky’s Noah , most refreshing is the fact that, for once, a biblical epic is being helmed by a competent director. After the recent short shrift given to Jesus in Son of God and the torpid Christian pep-rally of God’s Not Dead, it is nice […]
Divergent (2014)
It is nice, once in a while, to encounter an actor who doesn’t have to scream to get noticed. That is a very rare quality that has all but disappeared in an age when actors feel the need to push full-force at us with cloying overconfidence. The best actors, in my opinion, are those who […]
Video Review: Son of God
Here is my video review of “Son of God.” I’m sitting in my car because I get better sound out here then I do in the house (it’s the camera). Enjoy!
Son of God (2014)
It is clear that Hollywood’s noble intent for 2014 is to bring back the big-budget biblical epic. Later this month we’ll get the story of Noah starring Russell Crowe, and this Christmas we’ll get Ridley Scott’s Exodus starring – get this – Christian Bale as Moses. This can either lead to a renaissance or a […]
Philomena (2013)
The story of the Magdalene Laundries is not exactly a chapter of Irish history that anyone wants to hang on a wall. For more than 200 years, the Magdalene laundries were an asylum engineered to incarcerate young girls who were either promiscuous or prostitutes or the victims of rape. It was little more than a […]
