When I was young, I accidentally punched a hole in the side of our garage wall with a wayward snow shovel. Terrified at the implications once my mother returned from work, I did the only thing I could think of: I taped a piece of notebook paper across the sizable gouge and painted over the [...]

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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
Robin Hood opens with a series of olde tyme title cards, the sort you’d see in the Errol Flynn version of the story. This thoughtful esthetic throwback, occurring in the first seconds of the film, is where [...]

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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
Last year, Zombieland came out of nowhere to be an incandescently entertaining and ferociously fun surprise. This year, it’s Kick-Ass (warning: the linked trailer is the Red Band version). Just when you think it is no longer [...]

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I walked into Sherlock Holmes more than a little anxious. As a longtime fan of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famed detective and a voracious reader of his exploits, I was concerned that director Guy Ritchie (Snatch, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels) was going to transform the beloved literary icon into little more than a [...]

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