The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Sci-Fi/Fantasty
The Host (2013)
The Host opens and closes with scenes that contain elements of great science fiction. What comes in the middle, unfortunately, is one of the longest,...
Oz, the Great and Powerful (2013)
Sam Raimi’s Oz the Great and Powerful is easier to deal with if we simply stand back and try not to compare with The Wizard...
Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)
Bryan Singer’s Jack the Giant Slayer is rousing adventure; exciting, adventurous and just plain fun. After the disaster of super-sized fairy tale adaptations like Hansel...
Warm Bodies (2013)
Warm Bodies has a premise that redefines the word cockamamie. Here is a bizarre love story set in a landscape in which the living dead...
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
If Peter Jackson didn’t have a passion for the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, then his enterprise to bring Tolkien’s vision to the screen would be...
Life of Pi (2012)
Oh! And what a life it is! What a visual masterwork that Ang Lee has brought to the screen. Here is a story brimming with...
Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)
Safety Not Guaranteed is a sweet, whimsical and often funny little movie with science fiction elements that remain a mystery until the very end. A...
