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.
Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan is the stillborn offspring of The Red Shoes and Hieronymus Bosch—both magnificent and magnificently disturbing. Art, obsession and mental fragility coalesce into something dark, gnarled and hallucinatory. How can something [...]

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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
Intended as a traumatic melodrama about the harrowing toll of war on the home front, Brothers is a prodigal son story that collapses under the weight of its own narrative schizophrenia and lacks the courage of its [...]

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