Last week, “The Help,” based on Kathryn Stockett’s best-selling novel of the same name, opened in theatres to rave reviews. The film is a drama about the relationship between white women and their black maids during the 1960s in Jacksonville, Mississippi. While Viola Davis’ portrayal of Aibileen Clark has garnered her an early Oscar [...]
Based largely around the propulsive action of the Battle of Hogwarts, and lending just enough time to nostalgia without getting bogged down in history, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 may be the best Potter film yet, and in some ways even improves on the book. By the time it gathers all the main players [...]
When you look back on your life, you’ll remember the big moments. Yet, life isn’t really big moments. It isn’t weddings and birthdays or that time you got drunk and attacked a cop. Life is the long stretches in between all of that. It’s the hours you spent driving to the wedding, or the beers [...]
Green Lantern is the third comic book movie to come out in what already feels like a long summer movie season, and the third to credit no fewer than four screenwriters (X-Men: First Class actually had five). It also suffers the worst from a lot of good intentions and cross-purposes in getting yet another superhero [...]
There’s a specific feeling I get only when watching a blockbuster film that’s working, a feeling almost like vertigo, being lifted out of my seat by the power of special effects and pounding score and explosions that are used really, really well. There are a lot of moments like that in X-Men: First Class, a [...]
It’s damn hard to capture the spirit of adolescence on film. An incredibly important time in all of our lives, it’s an easy thing to botch, whether it’s the child actors who stumble over complicated dialogue or a filmmaker who looks back on the past with rose colored glasses. But when a writer and/or director [...]
In 2009 The Hangover was a surprise hit, the key word there being “surprise.” It wasn’t just that nobody was expecting much out of this R-rated comedy starring three guys we’d barely heard of, but that every outrageous turn in the movie felt out of the blue, from the genius idea of setting the film [...]
Picking up where the first film left off, Po (Jack Black) has eased into his position as the Dragon Warrior, when the world of kung fu is threatened by the return of Lord Shen (Gary Oldman), a villain who has built a weapon of mass destruction. What Po doesn’t know, however, is that Lord Shen [...]
Jack Sparrow is many things– one of the most iconic movie characters of the last decade, maybe the best role Johnny Depp will ever have, a presence who can make pretty much any movie feel like a sprightly adventure. But he’s not a character to build a movie around, something Disney tried to some degree [...]
Those of you expecting this Bridesmaids review to describe the film as a female version of The Hangover should probably hit the eject button on your web browser. This isn’t that movie. Instead, it’s about what happens when your friends move on to bigger and better lives, and you get left behind. Annie tries to [...]
Priest isn’t afraid to aim high in its aspirations and deserves praise for doing so, with the backstory plastered over a bloody and enjoyable animated credits sequence, leading into the live action, high walled, dystopian city that now safely houses humanity after the vampire scourge threatened to take over. The cityscapes and streets affectionately homage [...]
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