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
Dark Shadows (2012)
Dark Shadows is a movie that begins with a wonderfully melodramatic fire, but then ultimately sinks under a plot that seems to give up half...
Marvel’s The Avengers (2012)
As I settled in for Marvel’s The Avengers (to cite its full title) my mind began to drift back a few years, all the way...
The Hunger Games (2012)
The Hunger Games presents a dystopian future filled with gloom and doom, oppression and despair that is not likely to surprise anyone familiar with those...
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace 3D (2012)
Within the annals of Star Wars lore, or just movie history in general, the business of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace is something...
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
I don't care about this movie, I really don't. I've been burned too many times to even care at this point. Something about this series...
Melancholia (2011)
Lars Van Trier, the Danish film director, doesn't make happy movies. He makes films that are masterful works of art, but are never-the-less soaked in...
I Am Number Four (2011)
I guess he's fortunate that he wasn't Number Two. I Am Number Four is a teen science fiction thriller so shabby that it resembles a...
