This little comedy, now available on video, feels like it doesn’t quite know what it wants to be. At times it treads the path of “normals shocked by weirdos” forged by such films as Four Christmases or National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. At other times, a satire of – well, something – seemed to be brewing, [...]

Please Remove Your Shoes is a tiny little documentary centered around the historical failures of the FAA and airlines in managing effective air travel security (Exhibits A & B, Pan Am 103 and 9/11) and the continued, even less-effective tenure of the TSA. Produced, directed, and edited by Rob De Gaudio, this film is clearly [...]

Please Remove Your Shoes is a tiny little documentary centered around the historical failures of the FAA and airlines in managing effective air travel security (Exhibits A & B, Pan Am 103 and 9/11) and the continued, even less-effective tenure of the TSA. Produced, directed, and edited by Rob De Gaudio, this film is clearly [...]

Armed with only a slight awareness of the premise, but accompanied by a pretty hard-core fan, I fought my way through the hordes of Twihards to be in a very different fan-base room for this screening. The film starts with a basic premise of the universe the story takes place in – four nations formerly [...]

To prepare for this film, I read Alice Sebold’s dreamy novel, written from the perspective of Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan) after she has already died. The novel wastes no time getting to the point of how she died, either. The rest is her watching Earth, trying to point her parents in the direction of her [...]

Occasionally I will mitigate opinions in this forum that I know will be unpopular when I am specifically writing a review of a film that I know carries a lot of emotional charge for people. In trying to be politic I try and soften the subjective emotions I felt to impart a sense of fairness. [...]

In the continuing tradition of post-apocalyptic adventures, 9 posits a world where humanity, indeed all organic life, is gone, obviously our fault. Let’s say that 9 takes place about 10 years after The Road and 75 years before Wall-E; or else right after the spaceships left to mine Pandora. It’s actually shocking how many movies [...]

Billed as a real film from 1957 (with excellent lobby cards and generally good print advertising), one that was lost to studio politics and the vagaries of time, Alien Trespass is a love letter to the ’50′s sci-fi films of yesteryear. They even go so far as to justify their recognizable lead actor as M. [...]

We’re not here to discuss what a watershed the 1986 Alan Moore graphic novel is/was. They said a movie of it couldn’t be done, but no one dared to suggest it shouldn’t be done (unless you count Alan Moore taking his name off this film). As a movie, as a flickering visual narrative, Watchmen is [...]

Push suffers from a combination of a lack of ambition and repressed ambition. Unlike the two million superpower movies & TV series we have already seen or are waiting to see, Push’s special folk are just normal people who happen to possess one of a limited range of special abilities. Basically, these folks (who of [...]