The Dark Knight movie review: dim hope
Everything about this is wrong.
2008 theatrical releases
Meet Dave (review)
I walked out of *Meet Dave*…
Journey to the Center of the Earth (review)
For once, here is a movie that does not try to pretend it’s anything other than what it is: a journey to the center of the Earth in 3D. That’s it.
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (review)
Don’t forget to buy the Hellboy Happy Meal on your way home.
Hancock (review)
I thought: *Brilliant! Why hasn’t anyone thought of this before?* A reluctant superhero? Fantastic! Who asks for his superpowers, anyway?
Wall-E movie review: soul of the machine
Wall-E is practically religion. It’s spiritual in the secular sense, asking us to contemplate the great things we are capable of, and how we so frequently fail to even try to live up to that potential.
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (review)
If little girls are perfectly capable of enjoying the adventures of Harry Potter, little boys should be capable to enjoying the adventures of Kit Kittredge…
Wanted (review)
The ultimate geek’s dream of a movie? It could be ‘Wanted.’ I’m feelin’ it, and it feels pretty good.
Get Smart (review)
It’s kinda weird, but I find I have very little to say about ‘Get Smart’…
The Love Guru (review)
It’s not enough, these days, if you want to make a stupid, crass, juvenile movie, to merely be stupid, crass, and juvenile: Everyone’s doing that, and a filmmaker makes to distinguish himself, right? So here we have the next step — actually several giant next steps — in taking movies to levels so new and so base that they stand apart…
