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
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...
RoboCop (2014)
The remake of Robocop is a colossal miscalculation. I’m all for remakes that change up the original material, but this movie does it in such...
Her (2013)
The world around Theodore Twombly contains a lot of empty space. In his job, in his social life, and in his heart, he is a...
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
It is hard to be too critical of “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug”, the second leg of Peter Jackson’s three-legged trilogy. Without the final...
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
“The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” does something unheard of for a science fiction thriller – it makes a remarkable comeback in its second half after...
Thor: The Dark World (2013)
If you peel back the expensive production values and the fancy schmancy special effects, “Thor: The Dark World” - the latest superhero blockbuster from Marvel...
Ender’s Game
“Ender’s Game” is like a multi-million dollar video game that you never get to play. The ads confidently inform us that “This Is Not A...
