Film

I saw a film today, oh boy: “Across the Universe” is a misguided spectacle, an uneven result of imagination without purpose. It weaves 31 Beatles […]

Look out, Pierre Boulle. Pixar Animation Studios may have created a lighthearted, dystopian future comedy. Yes: a comedy about  a disastrous future of our creation […]

There’s no doubt that “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs,” is a fun animated film and one that both kids and adults will enjoy, but […]

Charles Bronson (“The Mechanic,” “Murphy’s Law”) has to stop a terrorist whose greatest weapon is the telephone in the pulse pounding thriller, “Telefon.” While it […]

Movies based, even loosely so, on true stories are an ambitious undertaking. There is the pressure of weaving in the requisite Hollywood elements without jeopardizing […]

It’s not easy to say that “The Hurt Locker” is a bad film, especially since there are so many things about it that are nearly […]

Joel Schumacher’s “The Number 23” originally seems like a bland hybrid of successful movie genres, combining conspiracy theory elements from films such as “Seven” and […]

You usually don’t come across an action film that relies more on the strength of its characters than the action itself, but that’s exactly the […]

“Die Laughing” was a labor of love for actor Robby Benson (“Tribute,” “Ode to Billy Joe). Not only did he play the lead of Daniel […]

Some might say that “Tetro” is Francis Ford Coppola’s comeback film, although he came out of retirement in 2007 with “Youth Without Youth.” It wouldn’t […]

The modern horror story can rightly claim to have its origins in the 19th century with the classic works of  Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley’s […]