They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those [...]
Archive for November, 2014
Penguins of Madagascar (2014)
It takes a heart of stone to hate a movie as sweet and good-hearted as Penguins of Madagascar although, lord knows, many critics have tried. Their ire is not completely unreasonable, however, the world wasn’t exactly crying out for a feature-length movie featuring the adventures of those cute penguins that provided comic relief around the […]
Video Review: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1
Welcome to my ‘We’ll Talk in the Car’ review of “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1.” I decided to do my review in my car because I couldn’t get good sound in the house.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 (2014)
It is amazing that by the time The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 end that its heroine, Katniss Everdeen, isn’t locked in a padded cell. Here is a woman whose been through two kill-or-be-killed tournaments, who has watched her people die one by one, and then finds herself cast in the role of leading a […]
Big Hero 6 (2014)
Big Hero 6, the latest animated adventure from Disney, illustrates one of the greatest assets and also one of the greatest set-backs of the studio’s recent animated product. It is created with perfect, loving details, but falters when it gets to the main story. Disney has historically been good at both, but recently the greatness […]
Interstellar (2014)
If we learned anything last year from Gravity it is that when dealing with movies based on science fact, less is more. Christopher Nolan might have taken some of that to heart with his new space adventure Interstellar. Here is a movie with infinite science and infinite filmmaking skill, but it weighs so heavily on […]
Nightcrawler (2014)
Nightcrawler is a wickedly brilliant thriller, a social satire and an eerie look into the mind of a sociopath who can manipulate with the power of cold-blooded reason. That sounds like a tall order, but this is a deceptively simple plot made functional by a well-mounted script and a near-perfect performance by Jake Gyllenhaal. Gyllenhaal […]
