Inexplicably, I went into Hall Pass ignorant of the fact that it was a Farrelly Bros. (There’s Something About Mary, Dumb and Dumber) movie. If I’d known, I would have been mentally prepared for the onslaught—there is no other word to describe it—of offensive, crude, distasteful and wholly inappropriate humor that was to come. There [...]

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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
Can something be both great and completely pointless? Because Let Me In is. The remake of the exceptional 2008 Nordic import Let the Right One In is redundant and unnecessary. But it isn’t bad. Far from it. [...]

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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
My biggest fear with Eat Pray Love was that, as with so many adapted works of a more intimate, interior nature, it would be Hollywood slick, over-produced and about as subtle as a bull in a china [...]

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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 [...]

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