Category Archives — "Movie Reviews"

I saw a screening of Disney’s John Carter recently, followed by a Q&A with director Andrew Stanton. I can’t begin to tell you how disappointed I was by this film. When you spend well over a hundred million dollars, and have an Academy Award winning director attached to your film (Andrew Stanton won Oscars for ...

Note: Contains spoilers I saw this movie a few months ago, and I’ve come to appreciate it much more in retrospect. It’s not an easy movie to watch. It’s NC-17 for a reason, and deserves that rating (there’s a lot of male, full-frontal nudity and sex scenes). It’s for adults who want to see a ...

Note: contains spoilers Surprisingly, I did not enjoy this movie. How Lars Von Trier can go from Antichrist to this, is not necessarily beyond me; it does actually feel like a natural progression. But Melancholia is just so tedious and slow in parts. I was hoping for much better. I get it. It’s an honest ...

Note: contains spoilers I’m a David Fincher fan, but not a fan of every movie he’s made. I think he’s one of those very good movie directors that will always give you your money’s worth, even if you don’t like the film – like Spike Lee, or David Lynch. It’ll always be an interesting, fun ...

Note: contains spoilers I saw a screening of this film last week at MoMA, and I can see why Roger Ebert picked it as his best of 2011. It’s a great film, set in Iran, about a family caught in the crisis of a murder charge. If you want to know more about the plot, you ...