From the silent opening sequence to the arrival of Ndugu’s drawing at the very end, About Schmidt is a fantastic depiction of a lone man facing important choices at several of life’s crossroads all at...

A soulless and very much psychotic totalitarian government gets a proper “F--- You” in Terry Gilliam’s Brazil . Named after a song from 1939 (“Aquarela do Brasil”) that’s often heard playing in the ba...

Are you ready kids?! Stephen Hillenburg’s TV toon that’s all about nautical nonsense returns to the silver screen with The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water . While the television show and its hour...

As a self-confessed hound of the horror genre, I find myself happily unleashed in cinematic cemeteries and very familiar with the format of a good haunt. It takes quite a bit of atmosphere and gore to...

From producer Guillermo del Toro and director Jorge Gutierrez comes The Book of Life , an animated comedy with a unique visual style. The film was (mostly) ignored upon its release last October. It is...

Romance - past romance, present romance and the promise of future romance - is in the air for As the Abbey Turns ! For a program that began its life intending to be merely a seven-part miniseries that...

“I’ve never been an actual Luddite. I don’t hate technology. I just hate the religion around it.” – Terry Gilliam. Visoinary director (of the abstract dramedy) Terry Gilliam takes viewers back to the...

If you are tired of Johnny Depp or think he’s “played out” then you should stop reading this review right now. In fact, don’t step foot anywhere near Mortdecai because you won’t be amused with anythin...

Chasing perfection is a lengthy process, one of trial and tribulation, and for freshman jazz band drummer Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller), this is a fact that could be none too clear. Studying at Shaffer...

Michael Mann’s stylistic exercise continues with yet another bloodless affair. Blackhat , following the disappointment of Public Enemies and Miami Vice , continues the downward trajectory of an above-...

"You can't hypnotize me...I'm British!" Burned by Roger Ebert upon its original release but made popular by British audiences, At the Earth’s Core is a harmless rubber-suited monster party for childre...

On Sunday, January 4th, PBS and Masterpiece debuted the newest season of the popular British show, Downton Abbey . For PBS that meant 10.1 million viewers joined their network as Season Five opened. F...

Call me a fascist. Call me un-American. Call me what you will but The Interview is not a good comedy. I’m all for free speech but there are much better films to spend your money and your time on invol...

Director Tim Burton returns to the landscape of the unconventional biopic and combines the strength of Ed Wood with the emotion of Big Fish and Edward Scissorhands and introduces us to the storytellin...

I must say, director Bennett Miller, for the few films he has directed (three feature length, one short, one documentary), is on a quite a roll, considering that his other two full length films, ( Cap...