Reviews / Cinema Reviews
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Let Me In
My respect for cinema and my understanding that not every film can be prejudged from advertising and/or dubious Internet buzz demands that I at least attempt to look at each film as an individual...
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Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak’s bedtime book, Where the Wild Things Are, tells the story of Max, a precocious young boy who is sent to bed without his supper for one of his many wild offenses. To...
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Paper Heart
Charlyne Yi does not believe in love, at least that’s what the version of herself she plays in her quasi-documentary Paper Heart would have you believe. More specifically, the Yi in Paper Heart is...
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
I’m getting dangerously close to becoming an adult. With every passing year, I seem to get more and more bothered by “today’s youth” and their activities. Their soulless pop music is even more soulless...
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Moon
As much as I like discussing 2001: A Space Odyssey (and I really do), I don’t want to make the mistake of drawing comparisons to Moon. The similarities to 2001 (and both versions of...
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Terminator Salvation
James Cameron’s The Terminator may have been conceived as a sci-fi monster movie, but his tale of self-aware machines bent on exterminating the human race evolved with each new installment. It became a living,...
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Star Trek
In 2005, I drove nearly 400 miles to go to one of the biggest Star Wars conventions ever held. That’s my not-so-subtle way of saying that I am a dyed-in-the-wool Star Wars fan. And,...
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JCVD
The acronym refers to Jean-Claude Van Damme. You remember him, the international movie star? He was in John Woo’s first American film, Hard Target. He did that crazy split on the kitchen counter in...