Clik here to view.
Blu-ray/DVD: ‘The Avengers’
The Avengers (Disney), the Marvel comics superhero all-star team, is the most impressive example of synergy in the comic book movie industry to date. Unlike The X-Men, which arrived full formed in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Hansel & Gretel’ is bitter and not so sweet
Much—and now understandably—delayed, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is grim going. This horror-action-comedy pastiche possesses all the terror and suspense and visual pizzazz of a downscale...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘American Hustle’: Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Adams Fight Over Christian Bale
Bradley Cooper and Christian Bale We should mention right off that the New York Film Critics Circle, which decided it needed to be first in the stampede of awards groups doling out accolades this year,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Videophiled: ‘The Immigrant’
The Immigrant (Anchor Bay, Blu-ray, DVD) – Marion Cotillard earned an Oscar nomination for her performance in the Dardenne Brothers’s Two Days, One Night but I think her best performance of 2014 is in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Film Review: ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’
Scarlet Johansson as Black Widow The characters in current superhero movies must’ve grown up reading comic books. In Marvel’s run of blockbusters, Iron Man and Thor and the gang (well, maybe not...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Blu-ray / DVD: ‘Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation’ and ‘Time Out of Mind’
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (Paramount, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD), the fifth film in the big-screen franchise based on the sixties Cold War spy TV series, continues to spin its alternative to the James...
View ArticleReview: Wind River (1)
I’m not sure when the phrase “the dialogue sounds written” became a put-down when we talk about movies. It’s good that people are hip to cinema as a visual medium and all, but smart, sculpted...
View ArticleReview: Wind River (2)
Actor Taylor Sheridan certainly came bolting out of the gate as a screenwriter, with his scripts for 2015’s Sicario and last year’s Hell or High Water displaying a firm grasp of pulp storytelling...
View Article
