Movie Review: ‘The Hunger Games’ satisfies
Based on the trilogy of the same name, this film has already made $600 million worldwide and is still going strong. A combination of “Survivor” and “Lord of the Flies,” the story is very clear due...
View ArticleMovie Review: ‘The Dictator’ rules
Sacha Baron Cohen, who gave us “Borat,” “Bruno” and “Ali G” is back at it again. In “The Dictator,” he plays Supreme Leader Admiral General Aladeen, ruler of the fictional North African country...
View ArticleMovie Review: ‘The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’ features stellar cast
Based on the book, “These Foolish Things,” by Deborah Moggach, “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” just went into wide-release and features a stellar cast. Directed by John Madden (“Shakespeare In Love”...
View ArticleMovie Review: Do not miss ‘Bernie’
“Bernie” is the second pairing of “School of Rock” director Richard Linklater and actor Jack Black. Based on a true story that happened in Carthage, Texas in 1996, Jack Black gives a stunning and...
View ArticleMovie Review: ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ is truly delightful cinematic magic
Wes Anderson (director of Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, and Fantastic Mr. Fox) directed and co-wrote with Roman Coppola this whimsical preteen love story set in 1965 on fictional islands off the New...
View ArticleMovie Review: ‘Magic Mike’ is a cautionary tale of loyalty, friendship and...
Steven Soderbergh, who directed such classics as Oceans 11, Sex, Lies and Videotape and Erin Brokovich, now gives us Magic Mike. Set in the world of male strippers, Magic Mike is a cautionary tale of...
View ArticleTake This Waltz
This is Canadian director Sarah Polley’s first film since Away From Her (2006). The theme is “Everything new gets old” and after the first half hour this film gets really old. Margot (Michelle...
View ArticleMovie Review: Beasts of the Southern Wild
This is Benh Zeitlin’s first feature, and it is easy to see why this film won the Camera d’Or for best first film at Cannes and the Grand Jury prize at Sundance. It has a great story, interesting...
View ArticleReview: Argo
Review: Argo If ever there was a movie that needed to be made about what it was like in Iran during the 1979 hostage crisis, this is it. This is a true story that was listed as classified by the CIA...
View ArticleReview: Arbitrage
Arbitrage Richard Gere, in his best performance to date, stars as one of the most conniving, selfish, unlikable characters since Gordon Gekko. Robert Miller is sixty years old and has it all. He is a...
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