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DEAR JOHN – Reviewed by David
As a guy, I’m pretty much the wrong gender to be reviewing any movie based on a book by Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook), but here we are with Dear John, a particularly nasty piece of dude repellent...
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EAT PRAY LOVE – Reviewed by Joyce
Eat Pray Love was okay. It seems like it could have been a lot better, somehow. Perhaps if the main character, Liz, had been played by someone else. Perhaps if the movie had gotten direction from...
View ArticleDARLING COMPANION – Reviewed by David
Making two movies about ensembles of rich white people and their life and love crises apparently wasn’t enough for Big Chill and Grand Canyon director Lawrence Kasdan, as he goes back to that well a...
View ArticleTHE CABIN IN THE WOODS – Reviewed by David
As happy as I am to see Buffy, the Vampire Slayer and Firefly creator Joss Whedon finally get the success and recognition he deserves as a result of directing The Avengers, I’m even happier to see him...
View ArticleLIBERAL ARTS – Reviewed by Bartholomew (simmer down C.S. Lewis) Crinklegauze
Josh Radnor’s writing and directing debut Happythankyoumoreplease (2010) had things going for it. Poised somewhere between Burns (Ed) and Allen (Woody) in the “save my soul or at least my love life...
View ArticleJACK REACHER – Reviewed by David
A major complaint about the movie Jack Reacher by fans of author Lee Child’s thrillers is that the titular ex-soldier character is played by Tom Cruise, who’s neither 6-foot-5 nor blond-haired. Such...
View ArticleTHE COMPANY YOU KEEP – Reviewed by Noah
The Company You Keep, directed by and starring Robert Redford, tells the story of small town lawyer Jim Grant, who is forced to go on the run when he is implicated in a 30-year-old bank robbery. The...
View ArticleA.C.O.D. – Reviewed by David
You don’t have to be an Adult Child of Divorce, like I am, to enjoy A.C.O.D. It’s a thoroughly enjoyable comedy people can thoroughly enjoy regardless of their parents’ marital status. Director and...
View ArticleTHE HOLLARS – Reviewed by David
I can’t imagine it’s easy to make a comedy about sick family, but John Krasinski manages to pull it off quite well in his second directorial stint, The Hollars, in which a family populated by...
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