Holy Rollers (review)
It’s a familiar story — Nice Kid gets mixed up in Bad Things — but as first-time feature director Kevin Asch tells it, there’s extra potency to the contrast between the Nice and the Bad.
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Step Up 3D movie review: stumbles and missteps
I can’t say there are lots of reasons to love Step Up 3D, but there are good reasons not to hate it.
Middle Men (review)
Ever since he was a kid, Jack Harris never wanted to be a pornographer…
‘Life on Mars’ blogging: Episode 2
Sure, the clothes look funny and there’s no cell phones, only giant cackling radios, but that’s a given. It’s all the other unexpectedly different 1973 stuff that’s so disturbing.
Charlie St. Cloud (review)
Poor Zac Efron: he’s at that awkward Movie Star stage. He’s got It: that indefinable onscreen charisma. But Hollywood doesn’t have a lot of options for him while he’s stuck in the postadolescent, not-quite-grownup phase.
Moon movie review: eclipsing the genre
Someday, Rockwell will get his Oscar due, I have no doubt. But I bet that when that day comes, lots of movie lovers will look back and say, “But it should have happened for Moon.”
‘Life on Mars’ blogging: Episode 1
DCI Sam Tyler has an accident in 2005, and wakes up in 1973. Has he fallen down a rabbit hole, or is he following the Yellow Brick Road?
classic ‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “The Ark in Space”
Made of spoilers. Don’t read until you’ve seen the episode unless you don’t care to have it spoiled for you.
Inception movie review: quantum cinema
My mind is blown. It is. Just not quite as blown as I was expecting it to be.
The Greatest (review)
First-time writer-director Shana Feste has made a wise, insightful movie about family, grief, and how awful and how wonderful it is to discover that life goes on after someone you love dies.
