Good grief, Charlie Brown, is this movie ever really awful dinner theatre offerings. Uninspired and generally boring, Red Riding Hood plays out its tale of revenge as if it really were a dish best ser...

You’re groaning already. I know you are. Deep down inside, there’s a part of your soul that cannot believe there is yet another retelling, respooling, redux, retread deluxe (the KING SIZED) version of...

Modern crime capers don’t get much better than Steven Soderbergh’s slick take on Elmore Leonard’s Out of Sight . Always a dazzler with rich material, Soderbergh has a wonderful habit of giving his aud...

You know you are dealing with a real “goodfella” when it takes two films to tell your life story. Jacques Mesrine was that type of larger-than-life figure of the criminal scene. Publicity hound or phi...

It’s been ten years since Memento was originally released to universal acclaim. Look at what director Christopher Nolan has accomplished since then: Insomnia , The Prestige , Batman Begins...

From the opening few comical seconds of Paramount’s Rango , it is evident that its primary source of inspiration has its roots in the iconic spaghetti westerns that Sergio Leone once made. The water-d...

There’s an empty sort of spirituality that echoes throughout The Adjustment Bureau . It isn’t concrete and, as a result, it certainly isn’t all that confident in what it’s trying to say about angels a...

There’s a dangerous sense of urgency that outlines the case for first-time director Michael Webber’s The Elephant in the Living Room . In spite of its playful and clever title, this is one documentary...

There may be only one reason to see this film. Maybe two if you are a fan of Charlie Chaplin, but – speaking from strictly the filmgoer’s point of view – the true value of this film lies with Robert D...

Bursting forth with the cinematic speed of zooming muscle cars and the urgency of flooding nose bleeds, Drive Angry is a 70’s cinephile’s pleasure. I’d add “guilty” to that pleasure terminology if the...

Before I get too far ahead of myself, let me explain to you why I am even giving this film even one star. It boils down to one actress: Nicky Whelan. You know, the barista from the trailers. The one t...

There’s a workinghorse-like mentality to all of Tony Scott’s films. You certainly know what to expect. Always enjoyable and seldom misfiring, his catalog of film is the stuff of legend (from Top Gun t...

Leave it to Orson Welles to tackle the subject of continued fascism after WWII. Never one to shy away from topicality, left-wing minded Welles directs The Stranger , after stroking the coals of parano...

Woody Allen’s creative second wind continues in the sails of his latest overseas production. Leaving Manhattan once again, after the ill-received Whatever Works (a film that should have worked a lot b...

Unknown wants to be an edge-of-your-seat thriller. It wants to recapture the glory of Taken and The Bourne Identity and even grabs at some basic Hitchcockian themes. Unfortunately, it never lives up t...