Film Reviews

REVIEW: ‘Into the Woods’

Stephen Sondheim's musical treatment of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales has been all but canonized by lovers of "highbrow" musical… Read More

December 27, 2014

REVIEW: ‘Annie’ (2014)

It’s been three decades since the last time we saw Annie on the big screen and with a winking poke… Read More

December 17, 2014

REVIEW: ‘Still Alice’ (★★★½)

There is a scene early on in Still Alice where Julianne Moore’s Columbia University professor Dr. Alice Howland is giving… Read More

December 4, 2014

37th Mill Valley Film Festival Capsule Reviews: The Imitation Game, Whiplash, Force Majeure, Foxcatcher

The Imitation Game (Morten Tyldum) Alan Turing won World War II. The creator of the decoder of Germany’s legendary Enigma… Read More

October 11, 2014

37th Mill Valley Film Festival Capsule Reviews: The Homesman and Two Days, One Night

The Homesman (Tommy Lee Jones) In Tommy Lee Jones’s second directorial effort he gives us the story of a pioneer… Read More

September 21, 2014

Telluride Reviews: Oscar Hopefuls ‘The Imitation Game,’ ‘Rosewater,’ ‘Wild’

The 41st Telluride Film Festival is underway and classically it's one of the shortest high profile film festivals around. With… Read More

August 30, 2014

Retrospective: Worst Picture/Best Picture Series – Under the Cherry Moon & Howard the Duck and Platoon (1986)

“A Duck, a Soldier, and a Prince Walk Into a Bar” A rare occurrence happened in 1986; the Razzies awarded… Read More

June 14, 2014

Retrospective: Worst Picture/Best Picture Series – Leonard Part 6 and The Last Emperor (1987)

1987 brought us two visually compelling films with two iconic lead characters. One film is about one of the most… Read More

June 13, 2014

Retrospective: Worst Picture/Best Picture Series – Rambo: First Blood Part II and Out of Africa (1985)

Rambo: First Blood Part II and Out of Africa were both released in 1985, two action packed motion pictures that… Read More

May 29, 2014

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