Pixar hasn’t made a bad movie yet. Sure, some may have been better than others, but in terms of producing a dud — it simply hasn’t happened. Well, you can stop holding your breath. Not only is Ratatouille not a bad movie, it is easily one of Pixar’s best!

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Live Free or Die Hard begins with a bang. Several of them, actually. It launches straight into the action within seconds of the theater lights going down and doesn’t stop until the lights come back up. Deafeningly loud and breathtakingly kinetic, the action is nonstop, fiercely uninterested in giving the audience a chance to breath.

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This is an abridged version of a review I wrote for Christianity Today Movies. To read the rest of this review, click here.
Let’s face it, we all come to Michael Moore’s films with our own established preconceptions just as Moore arrives onscreen with his rather renowned baggage. For those people who loathe his methods and […]

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On February 1, 2002, Daniel Pearl, the South Asia Bureau Chief for the Wall Street Journal who had been kidnapped nine days before in Karachi, Pakistan while investigating a story on the shoe bomber, Richard Reid, was beheaded by Al Qaeda operatives. His body was further dismembered into ten pieces and disposed of in a […]

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It makes sense that the sequel to 2003’s hit Bruce Almighty should star Steve Carell instead of Jim Carey. Hilarious as Carey was, everyone knows Carell absolutely stole the show as the prissy, narcissistic Evan Baxter. His scene as a verbally flummoxed anchorman is reason alone to return to Bruce Almighty again and again.

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It doesn’t suck.
Or maybe I went into the theater with such low expectations that it couldn’t possibly be as bad as my imagination had concocted.

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Edith Piaf (Marion Cotillard) was born into pain. The daughter of a street performer and circus contortionist, the girl was bundled off to live with her grandmother, a brothel matron, while her father was sent to the trenches of World War I. There, ravaged by illness and even blinded for a time, Edith found some […]

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I know what you’re thinking. Not another penguin movie. Sure March of the Penguins (or should we go back and start with that trio of penguins in Madagascar…oh, it’s so confusing!) was fantastic, heartwarming family entertainment, and, yeah, Happy Feet was ok, but enough’s enough, right? Wrong. The third times the charmer.

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Danny Ocean (George Clooney) and the gang are back. But this time the job isn’t for love or money. It’s about getting even.

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There is a mystery surrounding the film, Knocked Up and that mystery is how something this funny and crude could also be this moving and pure. Judd Apatow has done it again. Like his hit freshman effort, The Forty Year Old Virgin, Apatow and his team of hilarious writer/actors have delivered a film as side-splittingly […]

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