Cloud Atlas (2012) ☆ ☆

Cloud Atlas is a sprawling, ambitious drama with a strong cast, intriguing science-fiction elements, solid production values and impressive visuals.  But it’s also a big mess without a unifying theme.  Six stories set in time periods varying from 1850 to the […]

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Flight (2012) ☆ ☆ 1/2

Sometimes you walk into a movie theater expecting a certain kind of movie and walk out having seen something completely different.  It can be disconcerting, and even create a negative reaction just because it something unexpected.  This is the reaction […]

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Alex Cross (2012) ☆ ☆

If Summit Entertainment is hoping that Alex Cross is going to start another popular film franchise (the almost finished Twilight series is theirs), that hope is misguided. James Patterson’s inimitable forensic psychologist-detective was played in two previous films (Kiss the Girls, Along […]

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