One of the most suprising and effective survival films of in a long time, "The Grey" is a nerve-wracking drama that wrings quite a lot from very little while submitting willing viewers to a glimpse of an icy hell on earth. It's hard to believe it's from director Joe Carnahan and produced by Tony Sco...
Standard spy-fi fare presented in a very atypical style, "Haywire" arrives in time to perk up a dull movie month. Written by Lem Dobbs ("Kafka" and "The Limey") and directed with a boldly minimalist approach by Steven Soderbergh (still keen to play with every known movie genre and thankfully not yet...
January is typically the lean season when it comes to movie releases. the studios have fired off their Oscar bait over the holidays and are saving their next round of high-profile tent pole releases for the lucrative spring and summer seasons. That said, "Contraband" is better than one would expect ...
Every movie about demonic possession invariably gets compared to "The Exorcist", perhaps unfairly so but not without reason. William Friedkin and William Peter Blatty crafted a white-knuckle exercise in terror that, almost 40 years later, still leaves audiences with nightmares and theater managers w...
There are times when this second Guy Ritchie-helmed Sherlock Holmes adventure threatens to become what the first film was advertised as. The first picture, if you recall, was marketed as an all-action, all-comedy, huge tent-pole adventure that just happened to feature the world's most famous detect...
“Juno” had a warm fuzzy pop cultured heart at the center of its story of a high school outcast. “Young Adult” is its darker, more cynical cousin that tells the story of an aging former popular high school girl whose life isn’t nearly as awesome as her old classmates would assume it’d be....
The 'Mission' series has been something of an oddity for such a successful franchise. Each film has been quite distinct from the other and all have been fraught with enough problems that none have ever really established a model that further sequels or other franchises have tried to emulate. This ...
“The Muppets” is a celebration of all things Muppets — filled with fun, laughter and moments of pure joy. The film appeals to an enormous span of age groups and will undoubtedly succeed in pleasing all in attendance. “The Muppets” is teeming with nostalgic gems for older fans and also work...
“J. Edgar” explores the personal and public life of one of the most powerful men in American history, J. Edgar Hoover. The film weaves across several timelines as it focuses on an eccentric man who would stop at nothing to protect his country. As the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation f...
To say Sin City and 300 were visual game changers in film would be a major understatement. Their CGI was specifically tailored to reflect the films' comic book (yes, "comic book", not "graphic novel") origins, giving them an otherworldly feel that is somewhat divorced from reality. Film is an escapi...
