I continue to try to catch up with films I missed over the last five years, which I still consider to be “Recent Releases.”  Since I tend to gravitate toward “concept” films rather than “slice of life” pictures I have […]

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I am way, way behind in watching the Academy Award nominees, but I finally caught up with Frankenstein tonight, a film I really was not looking forward to seeing.  I’m not much of a fan of its writer-director (I despised Pan’s Labyrinth) […]

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Another story from the past now being redone in a modern way is Emily Brontë’s gothic romance Wuthering Heights.  While this project has been addressed several times its most famous incantation remains its 1939 release, directed by William Wyler, starring Laurence […]

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Of the more than twelve hundred movie reviews that I have written for this website, this is the first for which I am not providing a star rating for a movie I have seen.  Why?  Because I am having enormous […]

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Send Help has some of the elements that I have recently been raving that I don’t like in modern cinema; namely, characters who are much more despicable than heroic, snarky humor regarding subjects with serious consequences, plot points that defy […]

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Top-tier action and fantasy movies have huge budgets, big stars and, perhaps most importantly, massive marketing pushes.  Sometimes that works and sometimes it doesn’t.  Most producers do not have big budgets and can only afford one recognizable name or two, […]

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While I tend to prefer more linear storytelling it it undeniable that editing a story where several disparate elements are interwoven into what finally becomes a recognizable and appreciable fabric is a dynamic, powerful way to create a narrative.  Many, […]

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I knew next to nothing about lyricist Lorenz Hart before seeing this movie, which I did not know ahead of time is the story of Lorenz Hart’s final year or so of life.  I knew that he was composer Richard […]

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If our society is eventually to collapse within itself this may be the way that collapse will begin.  Doomsday scenarios like this are cautionary tales that posit what could happen if we do not prepare properly, and also serve as […]

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Sports movies usually their specific sport to create tension and excitement as their teams or individual performers attempt to overcome adversity to achieve a championship or a personal best or, sometimes, redemption.  Occasionally there is a moral, a social statement […]

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