Django Unchained
Drawing comparisons between Spielberg’s Lincoln and the latest oeuvre de blood from Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained, might seem odd at best and downright sacrilegious at […]
Month: December 2012
Silver Linings Playbook
Combining equal measures of comedy, romance, and drama (with a tasty concoction of bi-polar disorder, ballroom dancing, and the Philadelphia Eagles as a chaser), David […]
Les Misérables
I’m no film historian, but I imagine the whole idea of musical actors recording their songs ahead of time and then just lip-syncing on film […]
Parental Guidance
Maybe Billy Crystal’s residual checks from Monsters Inc. were starting to dry up (though the recent 3D re-release should have helped). And no doubt Bette […]
This Is 40
For more than a decade, the words “Judd” and “Apatow” have been used to describe all manner of smart, often raunchy comedy. More sophisticated than, […]
Jack Reacher
A little over two years ago, George Clooney’s The American limped in and out of theaters with little or no fanfare– a quiet, almost esoteric […]
The Guilt Trip
So let me get this straight– the latest entry into the field of goofy road-trip movies also marks the return of Barbra Streisand to leading […]
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Subtitled An Unexpected Journey, Peter Jackson’s return to Middle Earth, The Hobbit, arrives in theaters with all the hype and expectations that come with a […]
Playing for Keeps
There are bad movies, and there are bad movies. And then, far down below all of them, where Adam Sandler even fears to tread, there […]