CARS 2 – Watch It At Home: Pixar Shifts Into Second Gear CARS 2 is preceded by a short subject, the first in what’s intended as a series called Toy Story Toons. Entitled Hawaiian Vacation, it features all...
With the notable exception of Friday Night Lights, Hollywood has rarely even attempted a serious depiction of life in the American heartland in recent years. More often, the center of the country is a setting for stories of ...
CRAZY STUPID LOVE – Worth A Ticket: It All Works Without further ado: CRAZY STUPID LOVE is the comedy of the summer. Also the drama. There are certainly spectacles out there now prov...
THE IMPOSSIBLE – Worth A Ticket – A Tsunami Film With Both Spectacle and Emotion Director Juan Antonio Bayona has done a spectacular job of re-creating the 2004 Asian tsunami in THE IMPOSSIBLE. Staged...
Plot and character revelations are a critical part of James Marsh’s subtle, complex spy drama SHADOW DANCER, adapted by Tom Bradby from his own novel, so I’ll be circumspect in describing its plot beyond the ...
21 JUMP STREET: Watch It At Home – High School Meta-Bromance The meta-ization of contemporary comedy marches on: Community, of course, is a virtual meta-kingdom, but Happy Endings makes Friends jokes, th...
THE DICTATOR: Watch It At Home – Little Shock, No Awe With Borat, Sacha Baron Cohen made one of the noisiest splashes into movie stardom of the past decade, daring and distinctive. The question was wheth...