Film Review: Steven Spielberg Double-Dips This Holiday Season With The Adventures Of Tintin And War Horse Steven Spielberg Double-Dips With A Couple Of Christmas Blockbusters [sub]The Adventures of Tintin[/sub] Directed by Steven SpielbergStarring the voices of Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel CraigRated PGOpens Wednesday, 12/21[sub] War Horse[/sub] Directed [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Dec 22, 2011 Read More
Film Review: Juno Duo Reunite For Blistering Black Comedy About Coming Home Blistering Black Comedy Celebrates Stunted Development And Spectacularly Bad Ideas The last time director Jason Reitman and writer Diablo Cody teamed up, it was for a little film called Juno . Four years [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Dec 15, 2011 Read More
Film Review: Lars Von Trier Crafts End-Of-The-World Opus For The Prozac Generation With Melancholia Waiting For The World To End In Lars Von Trier’s Latest [photo]What with his extensive résumé and his multiple Cannes Film Festival awards, Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier has more than proved his skill [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Dec 01, 2011 Read More
Film Review: George Clooney Heads To Hawaii In Alexander Payne’s Delicate Dramedy The Descendants George Clooney Heads To Hawaii, Finds Humor And Heartbreak In Delicate Family Dramedy It’s been seven years since writer-director Alexander Payne ran roughshod over awards season with his Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Independent Spirit Award [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Nov 24, 2011 Read More
Film Review: The Vintner’s Luck New Zealand writer-director Niki Caro and actress / fellow Kiwi Keisha Castle-Hughes last teamed on the magnificent 2002 drama Whale Rider . At [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Nov 24, 2011 Read More
Film Review: New Zealand Filmmaker Goes To 18Th Century France For Angels And Wine In The Vintner’s Luck Wine And Cherubs Combine To Create Occasionally Lovely But Inconsistent Love Story New Zealand writer-director Niki Caro and actress / fellow Kiwi Keisha Castle-Hughes last teamed on the magnificent 2002 drama Whale Rider. At the [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Nov 17, 2011 Read More
Film Review: Spanish Director Pedro Almodóvar Trades Campy For Creepy With Fleshed-Out Horror Flick The Skin I Live In Pedro Almodóvar Trades Campy For Creepy In Fleshed-Out Horror Flick Pay attention to the background details of the psychosexual Spanish drama The Skin I Live In, and you might recognize it as the [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Nov 10, 2011 Read More
Director Of Independence Day Gets All Shakespearean In Anonymous Shakespeare Was A Fraud, Says The Man Who Showed Us Space Aliens Building The Pyramids Speculating on whether Shakespeare actually penned the plays for which he is justifiably famous is the academic equivalent of wondering if Elvis is [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Nov 03, 2011 Read More
I Like To Watch (Instantly): Circus Of Horrors Halloween Countdown Edition [photo]Are you an insane plastic surgeon on the run for pursuing your unethical experiments? Have you directed your own facial reconstructive surgery in [...] Jerry Cornelius \ Nov 03, 2011 Read More Spoiler alert!
I Like To Watch (Instantly): The Legend Of Hell House Halloween Countdown Edition [photo]For this ludicrous-yet-effective haunted house film, Richard Matheson adapted his own down-and-dirty novel for the screen, somehow managing to create a reasonable PG [...] Jerry Cornelius \ Oct 27, 2011 Read More Some of that nice composition I was talking about.