He comes striding out of the desert wastelands of the U.S. like a man on a mission. Wearing dark shades, carrying a longbow and a formidable machete, with a single knapsack on his back, that’s exactly what he is. Denzel Washington is the Strong Arm of the Lord and the powerful core of the Hughes [...]

Here it is at last: the last Heath Ledger performance that the world will ever see. This performance is encased within a meticulous and frantic dream world, cobbled together by the half-mad Terry Gilliam and complemented by the addition of three generous performers who stepped in after Ledger’s death. For fans of Gilliam, the movie is [...]

If you were a fan of Rob Marshall’s Chicago and enjoy seeing award winners like Daniel Day-Lewis step out of their element to tackle musical roles, Nine was a movie attempted for you.

While the preview promises us all the sex and energy of Chicago, the movie proves a lot of build with no climax. Much like the director portrayed in the film, Marshall’s execution feels frazzled and fails to fully execute any unified vision for Nine.

The idea of a vampire like Bromley feeding off the misery of his own kind is an intriguing one. But the Spierig brothers never truly commit to dissecting the economics of supply and demand during a time of crisis. Then again, it’s just one of many ideas pursued by the Spierig Brothers that are never [...]

The best surprise behind Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes is its ultimate faithfulness to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s titular detective. While the new film is certainly more action oriented than previous iterations–there’s very little of Basil Rathbone’s tweedy Victorian here– it gets the intellectual and physical energy of Holmes right. Despite a few out-of-place cgi sequences and an [...]

The hype has been out of this world (pun intended), the underground reviews have been nothing short of amazing, and the response from the critics has been astounding. And I must agree wholeheartedly! Cameron has topped his greatest works to make something that is beyond imagination. AVATAR is the movie I have waited for, for [...]

Clint Eastwood’s Invictus is just about what you would except from an inspirational sports story. But, as a film involving Nelson Mandela and the unification/healing of South Africa, it falls unfortunately short. Eastwood is a ‘classical’ director in most every respect, and sometimes those instincts result in a film of unique power like Letters from [...]

Nimrod Antal’s Armored feels like a film from a different time; specifically, an action thriller from the late 1990s. It’s the kind of second tier B movie that might have starred Cuba Gooding Jr. in the lead, Michael Keaton in the Dillon role, and Laurence Fishburne in the same role he’s got here.  Due to the shrieking [...]