Backcountry is a well-acted film with a familiar premis
Foxcatcher chronicles the tragic partnership of multi-m
Hell hath no fury like a fairy whose wings have been
A number of films that deal with isolation also deal with the fear of containment. Castaway pits Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) on an island. Pi is trapped on a boat with a hungry tiger. In Buried, Ryan Gosling must ward off claustrophobia and – inexplicably – fire in a coffin. Frozen relegates our skiers to their chairlift, […]
If 2011 was the year of the sequel, 2012 is set to rival that moniker with additional superhero franchise installments. Most notably is the uber-anticipated Dark Knight Rises, followed at a distance by The Amazing Spiderman and The Avengers. I’m sure Hollywood is also destined to bombard us with a handful of underground super movies that follow […]
2011 came to and end, and now it’s time to recap those things we saw, those things we enjoyed, and those things we abhorred. In the next few weeks, there will plenty of dicussions and conjecture about what will win, who will win what, and who should have been given a chance to win something, but before […]
Beneath the tale of a land baron trying to keep his family afloat after his wife suffers an irreparable brain injury, The Descendants is ultimately a study of required duplicity and a tale of revenge, pitting Matt King (George Clooney) on a quest for the man who cuckolded him. Admittedly, King doesn’t have to look far. He […]
From the moment a soothsayer warns Julius Caeser to “Beware the Ides of March,” the marriage of politics and assassination were forever canonized in eternal lines. And, in what might exemplify the upcoming season of Oscarbation, The Ides of March is star-studded, characteristically well-acted and brims with tension that is slightly reminiscent of scenes from 1998’s Bulworth. At […]
Picture me rollin’. Slowly. Through mid-day traffic on a Wednesday. Along U Street in NW Washington, DC. The sun is shining. The windows of my Grand Prix are cracked generously to welcome both the fresh Spring air and the sounds of the city. From somewhere behind me, I hear the approaching bassline of a song I think I recognize. […]
Thus far, Jason Reitman is three for three and has managed to make the dramedy relevant again. In Thank You For Smoking and Juno, Reitman tackles the tobacco industry and teenage pregnancy without beating the audience over the head with the righteous stick or presenting epiphanies that change the characters from concrete villains to saccharine heroes. His […]
