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
John Carter (2012)
John Carter is lumbering epic monstrosity, a boring film that looks great but goes nowhere. Here is a science fiction western with a visual look so...
Total Recall (2012)
The first two things that you notice about the remake of Total Recall: There is no trip to Mars and there are no mutants. The...
The Watch (2012)
The Watch is a lackluster comedy that clearly draws its inspiration from Ghostbusters. As with that great comedy, four average guys band together only to...
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
One of the pleasures of The Dark Knight Rises, the third and final leg in director Christopher Nolan’s trilogy, is the way in which he...
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
Walking into The Amazing Spider-Man, my heart wasn’t exactly filled with enthusiasm. Why, I thought, do we really need a fourth Spider-Man movie only ten...
Prometheus (2012)
Ridley Scott’s Prometheus is a grand, visionary science fiction experience, but just asimportant, it is an affirmation that idealistic science fiction is not dead. The...
Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)
I have made it a personal policy - at times difficult to follow - never to go into any movie with either high or low...
