If it invites but doesn't quite earn comparisons to Michael Mann's Heat, well, at least it has its sights set in the right direction. Read more
If it invites but doesn't quite earn comparisons to Michael Mann's Heat, well, at least it has its sights set in the right direction. Read more
While I am on the subject of The Switch not really being a romantic comedy and not really being a Jenifer Aniston film, I may as well go ahead an just say that I think this film has the single worst movie poster I can remember. Read more
I was able to accept this not as a blueprint for how to live my life but as one woman's story about how she chose to try to live hers and things that she learned while doing it. Read more
Kenneth R. Morefield, Peter Waldron, and Cynthia L Morefield podcast about critical backlash. Read more
The Disappearance of Alice Creed has all the ingredients of a horror-porn exploitation film, but its genius lies in withholding enough information from us that while we think we know what we are watching, we aren't entirely sure. Read more
Here's the most important thing you need to know about The Other Guys: it is funny. Read more
It's just a small, loving gesture. Read more
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is a brutal film. That in and of itself doesn't make it a bad film, though I admit that I have a predisposition towards impatience with and skepticism towards films that use extended brutality to announce or stake claims for moral seriousness. Read more
Looking for, or discussing, plot holes is a fool's errand that only serves to make one look either snobbish or effete. Read more
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee was one of the books of my young adolescence: everyone had to read it and everyone had an opinion about it. Read more