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February 2013

February 23, 2013
The older and more experienced I get, the more confidence I have in my own...
February 10, 2013
Negative reviews or critically acclaimed movies are like exclamation points: one only gets an indeterminate...

January 2013

January 24, 2013
From column one select a famous name (historical or fictional). From column two select a...
January 19, 2013
The problem with Crossroad is not that it is Christian nor even that it is...
January 12, 2013
The simple narrative and self-consciously "PG" script will no doubt prompt Lifetime movie comparisons from...
January 10, 2013
The North Carolina Film Critics Association (NCFCA) will announce its awards for the best films...
January 05, 2013
Film critics get asked what movie they hate the most almost as much as what...

December 2012

December 28, 2012
It was pretty apparent for me early on that 2012 was a banner year for...
December 21, 2012
I imagine that if I had told fans of Signs that ten years after its...
December 21, 2012
All of which might explained why Spike Lee’s latest film, Red Hook Summer, manages to...
December 19, 2012
Watching Les Misérables is a bit like listening to a young pop star do a...
December 13, 2012
Parts are camp comedy, parts CGI sword slashing, parts solemn intonations about fate and when...
December 02, 2012
The most depressing thing about The Central Park Five, for me, was its only hazy...

November 2012

November 25, 2012
Love is the secular American religion. It is the consideration around which all decisions are...
November 21, 2012
The same thing that makes The Sessions better than expected is what makes it naggingly...
November 17, 2012
Love Birds is an innocuous romantic comedy from New Zealand featuring a sad mope (Rhys...
November 12, 2012
I will say that judging nobody but myself, I feel convicted for the money and...
November 09, 2012
Chely Wright is by all accounts and as represented in Wish Me Away a bright,...
November 09, 2012
There's nothing seriously wrong with Skyfall, except, perhaps, a little too much Christopher Nolan envy.

October 2012

October 29, 2012
“God’s Mandate is to Love One Another” Macky Alston’s father was a Presbyterian minister who...
October 20, 2012
The easiest defense of Yogawoman, if defense is needed, is that its leisurely pace and...
October 15, 2012
James Rutenbeck's Scenes from a Parish is the sort of documentary essay film that makes...
October 12, 2012
There have now been enough films about--or set in and around-- the Holocaust that it...

September 2012

September 20, 2012
Long before the soundtrack rhapsodizes about "tender comrades" in the film's final scene, Thanks for...
September 16, 2012
In the picture above do you see: a) a scene from Stanley Kubrick's The Shining?;...
September 15, 2012
Given the target audience's love for Jared Leto and Thirty Seconds to Mars, the built...
September 13, 2012
If you had asked me to pick a director best suited to adapt an Oates...
September 12, 2012
A surprisingly emotionally engaging film, Mike Newell's Great Expectations is easily the best Dickens adaptation...
September 11, 2012
I didn't hate To The Wonder. I didn't much like it, but for me and...
September 11, 2012
During a Q&A at the Toronto International Film Festival, Alex Gibney opined that the inference...
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