Project X (review)
Delivered unto us by our entertainment overlords, to rain despair upon you and to remove any vestige of hope you might have secreted away in the furtherest corners of your movie-loving heart…
2012 theatrical releases
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (review)
Kooky-cutesy dramedy about British pensioners who retire to India, where they can be treated poorly in all new and exotic ways…
Black Gold (aka Day of the Falcon) (review)
There’s a lot of golden-age Hollywood in this tale of the earliest days, in the 1930s, of the Arab oil kingdoms. Some of it is just plain fun; some of it is cornball old-fashioned…
This Means War (review)
I’d call this How to Lose a Spy in 10 Days, except all along I was rooting for nothing but for Reese Witherspoon to dump both Tom Hardy and Chris Pine…
Arrietty (aka The Secret World of Arrietty) (review)
While perfectly pleasant and an entirely suitable option for anyone looking to take small children to the movies, it is a disappointingly minor entry in the annals of Studio Ghibli…
The Woman in the Fifth (review)
Oh, deliver us, please, from tiresome male fantasies…
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (review)
So bad that the projector attempted suicide multiple times during the opening-day public showing I attended.
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace 3D movie review: escape to the past
It’s still a not very good movie. But… it’s still Star Wars.
The Woman in Black (review)
I consider it a tremendous mark in favor of The Woman in Black that not once during its running time did I think, Hey, wait, wouldn’t Harry Potter have a spell to deal with this?
Big Miracle (review)
A surprisingly pleasant dramatization of the true story told through the eyes of the TV news reporter who broke the story and the Greenpeace activist who worked tirelessly to embarrass the powers that be into helping free three whales stuck in Alaskan ice…
