Washington’s new movie ‘American Gangster’ a masterpiece
Our culture is changing; audiences have replaced the corny Westerns of yesteryear with grimy and graphic fables of a new frontier. This frontier fights over pills and powder instead of…
Reviewers divided on Carell movie ‘Dan in Real Life’
Blood is thicker than water, or so we are taught from infancy. Our moms would always be there to kiss our wounds, our dads always imparting the perfect pearls of…
Reviewers split on new vampire flick ’30 Days of Night’
There once was a romantic vision of vampires. They were seen as regal, mysterious and brooding figures; tortured souls that preyed on our psyches. Bela Lugosi terrified audiences the world…
Gritty cop drama ‘We Own the Night’ explores family turmoil
Television and film circa the 1980’s assaulted audiences with a moralistic cascade of family values and togetherness. It comes as no shocker then, that “We Own the Night,” James Gray’s…
Fantasy knock-off ‘The Seeker’ cheesy and predictable
We are taught to recycle since kindergarten, and that reusing everything will keep the Earth happy. Maybe it would have been better if Hollywood had never gotten that memo. Since…
Action packed, star studded ‘Kingdom’ tackles terrorism
It is a common practice for Hollywood to re-write history in its own image. Events entombed in our textbooks get new life on the silver screen, re-animated to be bigger…
Latest installment of ‘Resident Evil’ falls short of hype
“Resident Evil: Extinction” stands as a movie that should not have been made. It is a pure excuse to capitalize on the success of a franchise. Ed Wood and Uwe…
‘Brave One’ draws mixed feelings from reviewers
Fear. It causes us to sweat bullets, our heart rates to skyrocket and our vision to become blurred. Sometimes, fear causes us to buy a gun and shoot every lowlife…