Film

A seriously weak crop this week. Might be a good time to watch all those movies people make you feel like you're crazy for not seeing.


Haywire
Directed by Steven Soderbergh and featuring a star-studded cast that includes Michael Fassbender, and Ewan McGregor among others, this flick nevertheless ...

Mission:Impossible 4 - Ghost Protocol

Brad Bird breathes new life into the M:I franchise by making it goofy. Read my full review here.

Shame

Michael Fassbender starts in this NC-17 flick directed by Steve McQueen about a sex-addicted New Yorker and his wayward ...

The Iron Lady

This biopic of Margaret Thatcher earned Meryl Streep her 17th Oscar nomination (and third little gold statue), but the critics weren't exactly wild about the film as a whole; quite a few found it to be a disorganized mess of information and impression that never really paints a clear picture of ...

War Horse
Steven Spielberg's second movie of the Christmas season ("Tintin" was the first) drew rave reviews from most critics. The tale of a boy, and a war, and a horse that changes the lives of everyone it meets. It's on my watch list, but I'll save it for a night when I feel like a good cry.


We Bought A Zoo
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I went and saw the “The Hunger Games” on Friday night, and was surprised by the diversity of the sold out auditorium. There weren’t many “young adults,” even though this is a movie based on a Young Adult novel. This ...

A Dangerous Method
David Cronenberg directing a period piece? Looks like it. Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) and Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) vie for the affections of the same mentally unstable beauty (Kiera Knightley.) Definitely going on ...