The problem with the current crop of superhero movies is that once you’ve exhausted the A-list (Superman, Spider-Man, Batman), you begin reaching for the second string personalities who may be every bit as worthy, but do not have the same sort of populist street cred. Thor is one such superhero. (The Green Lantern is another.) [...]

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A version of this review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
Early in The Rite, a middle-aged priest bemoans the escalating and disconcerting lack of fresh, young blood in the ranks of the Catholic priesthood. It seems the filmmakers themselves share that sentiment, since The [...]

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The narrator in You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger quotes Shakespeare in the opening minutes, telling us that the story we’re about to see is “a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” Woody Allen’s latest film doesn’t signify “nothing” (though it certainly is told by a gaggle of [...]

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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 [...]

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