The Rite
So the Catholic Church issued an order for every diocese to have an exorcist and then backed off as soon …
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Review: ‘Blue Valentine’
No Strings Attached captured hearts and the opening-weekend box office by giving audiences the same old vision of love — …
No Strings Attached
The premise of sex between friends without any emotional attachment is the current urban legend to be exploited by Hollywood, …
The Way Back
There is a feral intensity to Colin Farrell that seems difficult for directors to fully exploit on screen. It certainly …
Fragmentation of the Audience
Once upon a time, people watched movies in movie theaters as a collective whole. We paid a few pennies for …
Review: ‘Made in Dagenham’
Sally Hawkins impressed me immeasurably in “Never Let Me Go,” Mark Romanek’s adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s bestselling novel, which left …
Review: ‘War Horse’
Steven Spielberg, contemporary film’s sentimental serialist, strikes again with this heart-tugging story about young Albert (Jeremy Irvine), a British farm …
The Dilemma
Ron Howard has a bit of a reputation. He, along with producing partner Brian Glazer, has become known for a …
Forward Thinking: A 2011 Film Preview
Annual top 10 lists and Oscar prognosticating derail forward progress for the first couple of months of the new year …
Review: ‘The Green Hornet’
For a genre based on color-splashed frames of superhuman heroics, comic book adaptations sure have gotten heavy-handed in their attempts …
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