Tag: movie review

With each new Pixar release, there’s a temptation to immediately see where it ranks. How does it stack up to The […]

Typically, the heroes of Westerns are rugged cowboys, bombastic outlaws, or noble sheriffs. They are men with a sneer on their […]

The inmates who break out of Pretoria Central Prison are imprisoned for their political activities, but the context is mostly irrelevant […]

Ricky Tollman’s Run This Town begins in a bout of stylistic frenzy that defines the ambitions, if not the overall tone, […]

Although he’s still best known for being John Travolta’s brother, for a while in the ’90s and ’00s Joey Travolta carved […]

Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man feels like three kinds of genre films melded together. One is a thriller about escaping an […]

Blood on Her Name opens with a scene of intense immediacy. A young woman stands above a man’s corpse lying in […]

For over two hundred years, the world has been enchanted with Emma, Jane Austen’s tale of a “handsome, clever, (and) rich” […]

The Call of the Wild will be the first encounter for some viewers (including this one) with the Disney-owned 20th Century […]

There’s some sort of irony in Willem Dafoe providing the voice of a cartoon seagull just a few months after he […]