Big-budget sequels to popular original movies are like the children of successful parents – all too often they end up as victims of everyone else’s overbearing ex...
Here’s a broad generalization for you: there are two types of movie directors. One type is in it for the filmmaking, for the experience of telling a story – any...
As any film fan can tell you, one of the very best feelings you can have is the rush of discovery when you stumble across something new, interesting, and unexpected. It...
Good comedy is hard to find. Good comedy from a female comedian in a movie directed towards females is almost impossible to find. It’s not that women aren’t funny...
Much has been made of THE BEAVER, with attention focusing on Mel Gibson’s off the screen antics to the cockney accent he used to voice the puppet. But what audiences ...
In 1941 three men walked out of the Himalayas into India. They survived a 4000-mile walk to freedom after escaping prison in Siberia. THE WAY BACK is their amazing st...
Even in the best of times, historical or period pictures are a tough sell. Despite the fact that the overwhelmingly popular reason people will give you for wanting to g...
WATER FOR ELEPHANTS is a film so close to greatness that it’s almost painful to watch. Each skillfully crafted circus performance, each breathtakingly beautiful s...
TEEN WOLF is a trip down memory lane for those of us that grew up watching Michael J. Fox in the 80’s. I always considered this part of the “Michael J. Fox” trilo...
