Movie Review: The Judge – Worst. Iron Man. Ever.
Hank Palmer (Robert Downey Jr.) is a typical big city lawyer (at least by Hollywood standards), defending dubious clients with dubious tactics. In court one day he gets a phone …
Brian Lukaszewicz
Movie Review: Gone Girl – Spoiler free and incredibly vague
When it comes to mystery, more than any other genre, trust between author and audience is essential. The audience has to believe that the movie is taking them somewhere they …
Movie Review: The Equalizer
In an early scene in The Equalizer, Denzel Washington’s character Robert McCall explains to a teenage prostitute (played by the always great Chloe Grace-Moretz) the plot of Don Quixote. It’s …
Let’s Hear it for Family Dysfunction!
Weddings and funerals. They’re the cornerstones of any movie with a family ensemble. A perfect excuse to bring a group of jaded, dysfunctional people into close quarters with each other …
No Good Deed: Sometimes the trailer is enough
Deducing the moral of a movie is a tricky thing. So often our own expectations and experiences project up onto the screen, clouding the author’s intent. Many times, ambiguity itself …
Veteran Actor Jason Bateman Takes Risk, Bets on Rookie Director Jason Bateman
Bad Words, the directorial debut of Arrested Development’s Jason Bateman, probably shouldn’t work as well as it does. Its concept – a grown man forcing his way into a kid’s …
Post-Apocalyptic Dystopias Sure Are Great Places to Find Love
There’s nothing I love more than watching a world built from the ground up. From the small desert cantina of Mos Eisley to the hallowed halls of Hogwarts, when it’s …
Need For Speed as fun as watching someone else play a video game
Aaron Paul is a very good actor. I know that with as much certainty as one can in these instances. And in Need for Speed, adapted from the video game …
Ancient Gym Memberships Just Gave You More Bang For Your Buck
300: Rise of an Empire is a movie that knows exactly what it’s supposed to be – excessively violent, highly stylized, and draped in gore. This, along with its sequel …
Costner Plays Second CIA Agent in a Month, Real CIA Still Not Impressed
3 Days to Kill is not short on style—not too big a surprise with a writer/director combo like Luke Besson and McG, two men who have never shied away from …