Release Date: December 20th, 2011
Hollywood loves stories about children making friends with sea mammals. Here’s the latest installment, Dolphin Tale, a heartwarming, sometimes hokey, but serviceable family film about a young boy’s fight to save an injured dolphin. The…
Release Date: November 15th, 2011
When my editor shoves a stack of Blu-Rays into my hands and tells me to get cracking, it’s a job I undertake with hesitation. While I do love my job, I’ve come to realize over…
Release Date: September 13th, 2011
A few months ago, I saw an ad for The Tempest in passing and was immediately intrigued, if only because it looked ridiculously badass. It was an adaptation of the classic Shakespeare play, of which…
Release Date: May 10th, 2011
What can be said about James Cameron’s The Terminator that hasn’t been said since the film first premiered in 1984? How’s this— there is no such thing as technonoir. There, I said it. Cameron made…
Release Date: April 15th, 2011
I’m not a fan of Harry Potter. I haven’t watched the films, haven’t read the novels, I haven’t tasted the foul labeled jellybeans gracing the counter at my favorite bookstore, and I don’t understand the…
Release Date: April 5th, 2011
This is a love story about a man who committed identity theft, insurance fraud, and escaped from prison four times. The story is true. The real Steven Russell, having soundly humiliated Texas’ prison system, is…
Release Date: March 29th, 2011
Ryan Gosling is amazing at playing quiet but strong and understated roles. Don’t believe me? Watch Half Nelson and try not to be blown away by the breadth of emotions he conveys with his teeth-clenching,…
Release Date: March 15th, 2011
The afterlife is a tricky subject to tackle in cinema. Whether it’s a bleak, bizarre journey like Jarmusch’s Dead Man or a long-winded, Oz-like adventure as in What Dreams May Come, each film is merely…
Release Date: March 1st, 2011
Jamie Randall (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a hound; an attractive, charming, intelligent hound. He uses his wiles to sell electronics to women at his job, and when that doesn’t pan out, to get a new job…
Release Date: March 1st, 2011
If Danny Boyle first grabbed my attention with the haunting The Beach, then he certainly grabbed me by the back of the neck with 28 Days Later. Both films displayed a common theme: even in…