THE IDES OF MARCH: Watch It At Home – An Excellent Play Becomes a Merely Good Movie The Ides of March, one of the most eagerly awaited of this year’s festival crop, is more entertaining than i...
REAL STEEL: Watch It At Home – The Word is “Clunky” REAL STEEL wants to be loved so much, it practically walks the audience members to their cars and offers to give them all a lift home. And yet, th...
THE THREE MUSKETEERS: Not At Any Price – All For None and None For All If the last couple of Pirates of the Caribbean movies and the current Sherlock Holmes franchise had a really nasty, dirty weeke...
The consensus is that the 2014 Sundance Film Festival was a solid but unexciting one. To an extent that’s a business judgment: whatever its leaders may say publicly, Sundance gave itself up long ago to being as m...
MAGAZINE DREAMS: The hype was accurate: Jonathan Majors gives a titanic performance in Elijah Bynum’s Magazine Dreams. Playing Killian, a roided-up amateur bodybuilder obsessed with achieving glory in that pr...
POINT BLANK – Worth a Ticket: A Thrill-Ride with Subtitles The most gripping Hollywood thriller of the summer is… in French. (But not for long.) This isn’t a complete surprise: POINT BLAN...