Oof. It’s been a rough week, review-wise. With the exception of the delightful gem The Artist, I haven’t exactly been winning the review lottery. So let’s just say that, even without knowing anything about it,…

Well, talk about a downer. The Ledge is just a seriously depressing movie. From start to finish. It’s a movie that tries really, really hard, but can’t seem to quite make the leap from adequate…

A few months back, I read an article in the LA Times concerning the use of female nudity on television, and specifically, on channels like HBO and Showtime, notorious for liberal amounts of nudity in…

Going into my viewing of 5 Star Day, I had absolutely no expectations. I had never even heard of the film before. Apparently, it came out last year at some film festivals. Who knew, right?…

I feel as though I have to keep starting these reviews with disclaimers. Maybe it’s just a good way to open a piece, start with something that grabs the audience’s attention. I have no idea….

The music roars, rising ever higher, a post-rock cacophony that builds, greater and greater, as the phrases flash, one after another on the pitch-black screen. I am over 40. I am losing my hair. I…

Well, they’ve done it again. It’s been at least a decade since the last major Disney musical (excepting a certain frog-related film), and the renaissance of Alan Menken was considered over. I, like many other…

For a movie to be a truly successful artistic work, all of the pieces have to come together simultaneously: a good director must provide his vision and finesse great performances out of the actors, all…

Starring George Clooney. Directed by George Clooney. Screenplay by George Clooney. I think it’s pretty safe to say that The Ides of March is George Clooney‘s brainchild, and the amount of passion that he put…

I’m not going to lie—going into A Dangerous Method, I was only interested in one thing: the fact that Viggo Mortensen was playing Sigmund Freud and that Michael Fassbender was playing Carl Jung. These two…