Wow, what an experience! The movie starts hard core with a crime in progress, a common every-day cinema crime. All the rules are being broken again and again, making what was a workaday heist into a peek into the madness behind the perpetrator’s madness. The Joker’s paradigm is eschew predictability, and the […]

My first exposure to the idea of this movie, I thought, who cares, don’t wanna see it. Another freaking superhero movie, only this time it’s not based on anything famous and it stars Will Smith so they figure our love for him will save them from having to actually write a script (see: Men […]

Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Catch it on HBO
The short version:  Prince Caspian (the movie) is gorgeous and a total snore.  All the best effects houses worked on the computer and practical effects.  The locations are in the stunning environments of the Czech Republic, Poland, and New Zealand.  Every dollar of that budget is on that […]

Did you see the movie Caveman, with Ringo Starr? Some of the buzz is making 10,000 B.C. (or 10KBC for the hipster crowd) out to be a worse movie than Barbara Bach’s furry bikini debut. Look, no one, I mean no one, expected this movie to be high art. Roland Emmerich directed […]

Yes, it’s a Jack Black movie, with Mos Def costarring. However, it is more than that – it’s a film by Michel Gondry, who tamed Jim Carrey for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Jack’s unique brand of mania works for this film, but it does not turn into School of Rock. […]

Phillip Pullman’s excellent trilogy of novels captured my readership and interest (thank you, MT!) more than the Lord of the Rings trilogy. For those who have read them, the film version should resemble the truncated screen version of the Rings books, focusing on the primary good versus evil plot line, and dispensing with valuable, […]

Going into Enchanted, I was surrounded by the free screening unwashed at their most crass; my companion still had simmering road rage from her 12 mile, 1 hour commute to the theatre, and two people were on cell phones in the stalls in the bathroom. We came out glowing, humming the movie’s signature tune, […]

Matinee Price, begrudgingly
If you’re going to see Beowulf, at least see it in the 3D Imax if at all possible. There is little substance or poetry in this adaptation of the oldest written story in the English language, but it certainly wants your undivided attention for the stuff it added. (Note to students: […]

Zach Helm (writer of the delightful Stranger Than Fiction) writes and directs this film, one that is, by discussions I have had, either going to be a massive classic or vanish into obscurity. From these two works of Helms, it is clear that he loves the notion of inanimate objects being more in tune […]

I didn’t get to read Neil Gaiman’s novel on which this movie was based thanks to Michael Chabon’s latest novel gumming up the works, but after seeing this film, I am looking forward to it. Gaiman has a legion of fanboys for his work on the Sandman (and many other) graphic novels, his book […]