Movies

  Build yourself a cinematic raft people – there is a tsunami of movies on their way. Yes, yes I hear you say – I have exceptionally good hearing and the NSA lets me borrow their doodads from time to time which is nice – there are always plenty of Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT All Is Bright is the story of two French Canadians who travel to New York City during the holiday season with a get-rich-quick scheme of selling Christmas trees. Dennis (Paul Giamatti) is a no-nonsense, recently released ex-con trying to get his life – and his wife – back. Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Kate (June Diane Raphael) and Chloe (Casey Wilson) are two childhood best friends who met when they placed dead last in their hometown beauty pageant. Now they are all grown up and living in New York City, where Chloe works as a “girl in a box” at a Continue Reading

  I am a hopeless romantic. I believe that ideals will win out over pragmatism (all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding). I like to think that the better angels of our nature will always win out. And I expect that long dormant franchises will burst back to life when I Continue Reading

  The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, based on the novel by Cassandra Clare, is an epic film. Styled to within an inch of its life, its loaded to the brim with kickass leather-clad good guys, and assortment of demons, vampires and werewolves of varying allegiances – no zombies surprisingly Continue Reading

  By most accounts, Jonathan Glazer’s latest film, which attracted equal parts cheers and jeers at its world premiere overnight at the Venice Film Festival, is an unorthodox creature. Featuring little in the way of a standard narrative, and apparently even less dialogue, it relies on evocative atmosphere, and starkly Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Jude Law plays Dom Hemingway, a larger-than-life safecracker with a loose fuse who is funny, profane, and dangerous.  After twelve years in prison, he sets off with his partner in crime Dickie (Richard E. Grant) looking to collect what he’s owed for keeping his mouth shut and protecting Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT When a young man’s estranged father is killed under suspicious circumstances, he returns home for the first time in years to get to the bottom of the mystery. Hoping to uncover some logical explanation, he instead finds an army of flesh-eating squirrels hellbent on destroying everything in their Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Matthew McConaughey stars in “Dallas Buyers Club” as real-life Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof, whose free-wheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive and given 30 days to live. These were the early days of the AIDS epidemic, and the U.S. was divided over how Continue Reading