Oscar Moment: “The Social Network”
Are we just a month and a half away from the release of 2010′s Best Picture? Ask some Oscar pundits today and they might say just that. No one has seen “The Social Network,” which hits theaters...
View ArticleREVIEW: The Social Network
Has Facebook made us more connected to our friends? Or does hopelessly staring at their pictures, their moments, their lives only increase our feeling of isolation? Such has been the question for...
View ArticleREVIEW: Bad Teacher
High concept comedies like “The Hangover” and “Horrible Bosses” work because they maintain a level of implausibility and ridiculousness throughout. In the end, no one is going to get so drunk that...
View ArticleREVIEW: Friends with Benefits
It’s time for a movie to come along that changes the romantic comedy genre for better and for always (or at least reverses the way it’s heading at the present moment). A movie willing to avoid the...
View ArticleREVIEW: Trouble with the Curve
Chances are you’ve already seen “Trouble with the Curve” … but you just don’t know it yet. If you’ve seen “Gran Torino,” you’ve seen it. Clint Eastwood is just doing a PG-13 version of his cranky,...
View ArticleREVIEW: In Time
The concept behind “In Time” is actually fairly interesting, and maybe that’s why I was willing to overlook some of the film’s shortcomings. In a dystopian ultra-classist 2169, people stop aging at...
View ArticleREVIEW: Inside Llewyn Davis
Cannes Film Festival – Official Competition, 2013 “If it was never new and it never gets old, it’s a folk song,” explains Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) after yet another gig strumming his guitar at...
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