Film Review: Robert Downey Jr. Stars In Sherlock Holmes Reboot Of Literary Classic Plays Fast And Loose But Remains Reverent The cinematic watchword for 2009 was “reboot.” For better or worse, Hollywood has been cautiously rebooting film series for a few years now [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Dec 24, 2009 Read More “Nice hat
Film Review: Up In The Air Starring George Clooney Mature Look At The World Of Corporate Downsizing Mixes Romance, Humor And A Timely Personal Touch When Up in the Air marches confidently into February’s Oscar race (and it will), it will be on the strength of its sharp [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Dec 17, 2009 Read More We know the feeling
Film Review: John Woo’s Red Cliff Epic War Story Is A Visual Stunner First: a little background. Romance of the Three Kingdoms is the Chinese national epic, an 800,000-word historical saga that has been well-entrenched in [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Dec 17, 2009 Read More Now we’re cookin’ with gas!
Film Review: The Princess And The Frog Disney Is Back To Form With Clever Updating Of Classic Tale A few years ago, Walt Disney Pictures tried to declare an end to “traditional” hand-drawn, 2-D animation. Then they bought out cutting-edge 3-D [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Dec 10, 2009 Read More “C’mon. Everybody does it
Fantastic Mr. Fox Mixes The Familiar And The Stylish Picture-Book Classic Mixes The Familiar And The Stylish With Imaginative Results A month or so after indie auteur Spike Jonze’s iconoclastic take on Maurice Sendak’s beloved childhood classic Where the Wild Things Are hit [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Nov 26, 2009 Read More “But you ate my bunny slippers.”
Film Review: An Education Nostalgic Memoir Looks At Love Mid-Century-Style If you’re already addicted to the suave, mid-century setting of AMC’s “Mad Men,” you might want to give An Education a look-see. Think [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Nov 19, 2009 Read More “I know! Let’s do something groovy.”
Film Review: Planet 51 Space-Age Toon Covers Familiar Territory But Still Has Fun After having our eyes thoroughly scourged by the monstrous, 3-D “performance capture” technology of Disney’s A Christmas Carol (Kill it! Kill it with [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Nov 19, 2009 Read More “Does your dog bite?”
Film Review: World’s Greatest Dad Bleak Black Comedy Turns Poor Decisions Into Priceless Comedy Odds are if you remember Bobcat Goldthwait, you remember him as weirdo-gangleader-turned-rookie-cop Zed in the Police Academy movies and from a bunch of [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Nov 12, 2009 Read More “But BigWhiteAsses.com is my homework.”
Film Review: Disney’s A Christmas Carol Dickens Gets Digital Upgrade In Surprisingly Grim Fable The main problem with Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (besides the fact you actually have to read the damn thing) is that there [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Nov 05, 2009 Read More An example of the awesome graphics in Disney’s A Christmas Carol . ... Oh
Film Review: The Damned United Sporting Drama Scores By Spotlighting Its Flawed Hero The year was 1974. Leeds United was the most dominant club in all of British football—thanks largely to the team’s willingness to punch [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Nov 05, 2009 Read More “I’ll trade you an ice-cold Coca-Cola for that sweaty jersey.”
