Film Review: Emotionally Draining French Drama Amour Confronts Life, Love And (Most Of All) Death. Emotionally Draining French Drama Confronts Life, Love And (Most Of All) Death There is a debate among people who go to the movies over why, precisely, they do go to the movies. The vast majority [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Feb 14, 2013 Read More One day
Film Review: The Rabbi’s Cat Gives Animated Treatise On Middle Eastern Religion Arabesque Animated Fable Offers A Feline’s Take On Middle Eastern Religion [photo]From the very first frames, viewers can tell the adult-oriented French cartoon The Rabbi’s Cat is going to feature some lovely, bright animation [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Feb 07, 2013 Read More Disney’s The Aristocats gets an edgy remake.
Film Review: Dead Guy Stalks Cute Girl In Zombie Romance Warm Bodies Dead Guy Stalks Cute Girl In Conventionally Quirky Zombie Romance “Cute” is not a word that can be applied to a lot of zombie movies, but it’s the most apt description available for [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jan 31, 2013 Read More
Film Review: When Legless Whale Trainers Love Mma-Fighting Fathers In Rust And Bone A Whale Bit My Legs Off And All I Got Was Sex With A Musclebound Belgian It’s possible the ailments afflicting the French drama Rust and Bone are not the result of anything culturally specific. They could simply be [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jan 17, 2013 Read More
Film Review: Hunt For Bin Laden Pic Zero Dark Thirty Makes Intelligence Gathering A White-Knuckle Ride Gripping Drama Targets The Gritty Details Of Warmaking [photo]Director Kathryn Bigelow firmly established her action movie bona fides with 2008’s Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker. (As if Near Dark, Blue [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jan 10, 2013 Read More The new Call of Duty looks awesome.
Film Review: It’s Time To Play “Who’s Porking The Prez” With Hyde Park On The Hudson Whimsically Dramatic Biopic Of Fdr Asks, “Who’s Porking The Prez?” Who among us isn’t intrigued by the prospect of a juicy, between-the-sheets look at the scandal-worthy love life of our 32nd president, Franklin [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jan 03, 2013 Read More
Film Review: Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained Explodes Western Myth Italian Western Meets Blaxploitation Revenge In Tarantino’s Latest B-Movie Blow-Up [photo]Quentin Tarantino may be America’s greatest pulp film historian. He’s certainly the greatest one actually making movies—as opposed to simply writing guidebooks on [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Dec 20, 2012 Read More “Do ya feel lucky
Film Reviews: Anthony Hopkins And Helen Mirren Are A Bloody Good Couple In Hitchcock Anthony Hopkins And Helen Mirren Make A Bloody Good Couple In Cozy Biopic It’s always a challenge for an actor to embody a real person—particularly when that real person’s face, voice and mannerisms are well-known. It’s [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Dec 13, 2012 Read More
Film Review: Lush, Theatrical Adaptation Of Anna Karenina Almost Upstages Itself Joe Wright Sets The Stage For Lush, Theatrical Adaptation Of Lit Classic [photo]Leo Tolstoy’s romantic classic Anna Karenina gets a cheeky, self-consciously theatrical, big-screen redux courtesy of British filmmaker Joe Wright and award-winning screenwriter Tom [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Dec 06, 2012 Read More
Film Review: Tim Heidecker Spews Weapons-Grade Humor In The Comedy Abrasive Character Study Is Like The Taxi Driver Of Hipster Comedies The comedy of discomfort is a brand of humor in which not terribly pleasant people say and do deplorable things to one another. [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Nov 29, 2012 Read More