“One of these things is not like the other,” Big Bird used to croon on Sesame Street. “One of these things just doesn’t belong.” It is fairly obvious that Big Bird was playfully commenting on the fact that Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer is far too good a film for its February release date, a [...]

[Read more →]

1/2
This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
Sometimes the sign of a master artist is not how he produces a product of bracing originality, but how he interprets a long established genre. In tackling Shutter Island, only his second thriller since the 1991 remake [...]

[Read more →]

This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
Despite months of real life, on-set horror stories and presumptive bad press, I went into The Wolfman with the excitement that comes with seeing a good monster movie, especially one that follows in a long tradition of [...]

[Read more →]

This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
Valentine’s Day, I saw Love Actually, I knew Love Actually, Love Actually was a friend of mine. Valentine’s Day, you’re no Love Actually.

[Read more →]

This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
If Mel Gibson is obsessed with suffering as some sort of Dark Ages redemptive penance, than Nicholas Sparks, on whose book the film Dear John is based, has a fetish for personal calamity, for creating sentimental, overly [...]

[Read more →]

1/2
From Paris with Love is like The Odd Couple with automatic weapons. This enjoyable, low rent Bourne actioneer may be preposterous, but that’s half its cheeky charm.

[Read more →]