Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" sometimes seems to crawl at a snail's pace, but features some of the most iconic art found in animation.
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Movie Review: ‘The Judge’ (2014)
The Judge is exactly the kind of soul food movie audiences crave during the fall season.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Dracula Untold’
If Legendary Pictures and Universal really want this new monster universe to work, they’re gonna have to step up their game.
Read More »Blu-ray Review: ‘A Million Ways to Die in the West’
MacFarlane fans will surely be adding this to their collection day one.
Read More »DVD Review: ‘Macbeth’ (1971) – Criterion Collection
If you are willing to trudge through the mire and muck, the pessimism and darkness, the grotesque and graphic violence, you’ll find a great artist and some of his best art.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Gone Girl’
Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike play Nick and Amy Dunne Gone Girl, a tense drama-mystery film directed by David Fincher (The Social Network, Fight Club), and adapted from the book of the same name by author Gillian Flynn. Flynn also wrote the screenplay. Strong narrative elements, deliberate pacing, and emotional situations …
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Automata’
An Earth scared by massive solar flares is the setting for a film noir sci-fi adventure which evokes both Isaac Asimov’s "I, Robot" and Philip K. Dick's "Blade Runner", but goes much deeper.
Read More »Blu-ray Review: ‘A Million Ways to Die in the West’
A Million Ways to Die in the West is a clever concept that has many good jokes, but could use some cohesion and edit work.
Read More »New York Film Festival World Premiere: ‘Gone Girl,’ Starring Ben Affleck
'Gone Girl' is about Amy's disappearance: physical, spiritual and psychic. The question is did Nick ever really know her enough to inspire her to come back to him to clear his name?
Read More »New York Film Festival: ‘Maps to the Stars’
Agatha is the catalyst who sets the heavens in motion back to her beginnings in this sometimes sardonic always intriguing and deep film by David Cronenberg.
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