Jane Campion may not have cornered the market on melancholy, but she has definitely shown both a mastery of and a predilection for films that showcase that mood/tone. With Bright Star, however, she infuses the tragic love of Romantic poet John Keats [Ben Whishaw] and Fanny Brawne [Abbie Cornish] with the kind of wit, humor […]
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MOVIE REVIEW: Whip It! – Fun Film Refreshes Cliches!
Drew Barrymore and Juno. That may be the first thought of a lot of people when they first think about Barrymore’s debut as a feature director, Whip It. Fortunately, Whip It is not Juno on roller skates [four-wheelers – remember them?]. The only connection between the two films is that Ellen Page gives dazzling performances […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Toy Story Double Feature Suggests 3-D No Fad!
The Toy Story films were among the earliest full-length features to be produced in CGI. While they were amazing to look at – seeming more like 3-D than traditional hand drawn and painted animation, they would have been a curiosity if not for two things: they featured engaging characters in simple but brilliant stories. Now […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Surrogates – Mystery and Philosophy Provide Action Thriller!
Surrogates is based on the graphic novel The Surrogates, which I reviewed here a couple days ago. It is the story of a society that has become withdrawn from reality because of a technology – originally intended to enable the handicapped to function better – that allows the human mind to link, cybernetically to a […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Jimmy Traynor, Local Baltimore Director Does it Again
Local Baltimore Boy Jimmy Traynor is a machine. He’s a young director who manages to do a lot with very little. He’s the definition of an Independent Filmmaker who loves what he’s doing. He already has more than 10 movies to his name. His latest effort Live and Die was shot in 8 days using […]
MOVIES: Sorority Row Cast Interview
Here’s an interesting video clip produced by our own studio plant Scott Essman. It’s an interview with the cast of the upcoming horror flick Sorority Row. It Includes Rumer Willis, Briana Evigan, Leah Pipes, Jamie Chung, and Audrina Patridge.
Patrick Swayze – Gone.
I usually don’t report celebrity deaths on this site, but a few weeks ago we lost John Hughes, now the news that Patrick Swayze is gone. Who can forget him in his three iconic movies – Red Dawn, Dirty Dancing and Ghost? He was such a fixture in the late 80s. I always found it […]
Movies: Twilight: New Moon Brand New Trailer
Here it is a brand spanking new trailer for Twilight: New Moon.
Michael Jackson This is It Trailer Debuts
Ok, I’ll admit I almost teared up watching the trailer for the upcoming Michael Jackson movie – This is It. Sony and AIG did a great job on this, makes you wonder what a full blown live tour would have been like. From the brief moments you see, MJ still had it. You can check […]
CONTEST: See The Informant Tomorrow night!
We have tickets for the Washington, DC Screening of Matt Damon’s The Informant. The movie is getting a lot of good advance buzz and everyone is saying Damon will be nominated for an Oscar for his performance. You know you want to see it. The screening will be tomorrow night at 7:30 pm in Georgetown. […]
MOVIE NEWS: Transformers Now the 9th Highest Grossing Movie of all time!
For a movie no one liked and got universally panned an awful lot of you went to see it this summer. Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen proves the adage that I guess we critics really don’t matter (even though I believe I was one of the few who thought it was ok – not […]