It says something about Daniel Day-Lewis’s reputation as an actor that there was nary a peep of protest when he—a UK native!—was cast as Abraham Lincoln. Heck, England had a collective freak...
This may be a bit controversial, but I don’t think Daniel Craig makes an excellent Bond.
Granted, my knowledge of Bond is limited to the films (I haven’t read the books), but to me, Bond...
The premise of The Sessions is enough to make even the most jaded filmgoer squirm: A man with severe polio, who can barely move and must sleep in an iron lung, consults with a “sexual...
Don’t look now, but Ben Affleck has become a major American filmmaker.
He’s actually three-for-three in his directorial efforts—Gone Baby Gone, The Town, and now Argo—with each film getting...
This essential film is currently only available to Baltimore audiences on Comcast On Demand. When it comes to theaters, I will re-post the review.
It’s fitting that David France’s...
I’m actually jealous of sensitive 16 year olds who get to see The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Of course, growing up, I had John Hughes movies, which were amazing and also elevated my fellow...
On first blush, casting Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a younger version of Bruce Willis seems like it belongs in the annals of bad movie choices. Especially when you consider that Looper is a time-...
If you have any chance of enjoying Trouble With the Curve at all, you should first understand that it’s not a real movie.
I mean, yeah, okay, it’s a real movie: It’s playing in actual movie...
The surprise arthouse hit Sleepwalk With Me couldn’t have better indie bona fides. After all, it was produced by no less than This American Life’s Ira Glass, the unofficial Dean of Indie...
I can’t remember the last time I saw a film where a six-year-old little girl flexed her muscles at the camera and let out a defiant scream—probably because there never has been one. Between...
