Comparisons to 2005’s film Capote are both inevitable and necessary - both films deal with Truman Capote’s fascination with murderers Dick Hickock and especially Perry Smith, and writing his novel about the murders, In Cold Blood. I must say it’s impossible to describe how deeply and vitally different these films are from each other.
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When Princess Diana met her untimely death in Paris in 1997, having divorced the Prince and living a new life with Dodi Fayed, the Royal Family was curiously silent. While Britain and the world mourned openly a woman they had come to embrace even more passionately than the Royals, her surviving former in-laws holed […]

OK. Some of you out there just don’t get why this movie has been so anticipated and why we are all so excited. Some more of you saw it and still don’t get it. The thing is, if you get it, you get it, and this movie is exactly what we all […]

Little Miss Sunshine is one of those movies that form my raison d’etre as a movie reviewer. It is filled with a film-nerd’s dream cast that Hollywood would never trust to open a movie (Steve Carell notwithstanding), and it’s about a quirky, snarky family in several concentric states of crisis on an extremely stressful roadtrip […]

When we all walked into the theatre of the first Pirates of the Caribbean film, we probably all had pretty low expectations. A director who basically only weirdos like me had heard of, helming an adaptation of a corny but beloved 1960’s ride at Disneyland? I mean, seriously? We walked out nominating […]

I’m not a fanboy. I don’t automatically love something when it has the logo of a beloved icon splashed upon it. I feel that Christopher Reeve was and always will be the definitive Man of Steel. That said, this movie is truly incredible. Director Bryan Singer takes up the mantle left […]

It’s difficult to write a review of a movie such as this. Al Gore has been tirelessly touring the country, showing this titular slide show to academics, government types, whoever will book him, urging people to become aware and to spread awareness, to enact change while we still can*. This movie is a […]

I walked into the movie with kind of low expectations (too many big names, not enough of an apparent premise, untested animation company), and walked out with a gigantic smile on my face and a desire to see it again. Paramount used the Dreanworks Animation team’s expertise and somehow got a team of […]

If you are avoiding seeing this movie because you think that making it is exploitational or heartless, please do not avoid it for that reason. If you are too emotionally involved in the events of 9/11, or you feel you can’t watch a tragedy with which we are all very intimate, fine. I […]

Friends with Money is the kind of film that always stymies me when I sit at the keyboard. All I want to do is say, “hey, people (or at least women), go see this movie, because you will totally dig it.” I can’t explain why; I don’t have some cineaste jargon to explain […]