Kung Fu Panda 2 is disappointing only because it is not the original Kung Fu Panda, a rare animated action-packed adventure that managed to delight adult filmgoers as well as kids not by injecting sophisticated humor but by making a story of a fat Panda bear incontestably exciting. The second entry in the trilogy (this [...]

[Read more →]

The Tourist is something of an enigma. This is only German writer/director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s second film. The first was The Lives of Others, an extraordinary marvel set in the tyrannical former East Germany (it won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film) and certainly one of the most impressive debut films I’ve ever [...]

[Read more →]

This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
I’m not ashamed to say I love these sorts of movies—espionage thrillers jammed to the gills with hairsbreadth escapes, gladiatorial bouts and death-defying stunts. So it was disappointing when Salt turned out to be little more than [...]

[Read more →]