Reviews
Tuesday, June 11 2013
Sam Raimi Puts His Twist on a Classic with 'Oz the Great and Powerful'
The twister that removes Oz from Kansas, with its speediness and slapstick, is quite possibly the Raimi-est act of severe weather ever brought to screen.
Tuesday, May 28 2013
'Dark Skies' Leans on the Right Nerve
The real thrill, here, is tied in with Daniel's growing anxiety about his ability to protect his family. He's out of work, he doesn't understand what's going on around him, and he's out of ideas for his next move.
Monday, May 20 2013
Quirky Puzzles: 'The Goodwin Games'
The Goodwin Games wears its quirk on its sleeve. The opening is straight out of The Royal Tenenbaums: while ornate classical music plays, a bowtie-wearing family patriarch (Beau Bridges) sits in a too-perfectly-art-directed library.
Wednesday, April 10 2013
A 3-Dimensional World, Flattened: 'Alice Through the Looking Glass' & 'Alice in Wonderland'
With the low-budget production values and bad special effects, Alice Through the Looking Glass and Alice in Wonderland combine the worst of public-access television with the worst of community theater.
Tuesday, March 26 2013
The Actors are Empowered to Make the Performances Their Own in 'Les Misérables'
Live singing embodies the performances with a certain amount of honesty that isn't afforded to the casts of other movie musicals.
Blogs
Monday, December 7 2009
The Best Singles of 2009: Bishop Allen - "Oklahoma"
We've unveiled our 50 best singles of the year, but that's not really a lot of songs. So, here are others bubbling just under that 50 mark.
