Spike Lee’s focus, appropriately, is on the process and the passion, not the tabloid conjecture and presumed wackiness.

 

 

The War on Drugs, its casualties, and its collateral damage.

 

 

Good, family fun with a clever script, but a nagging need to satisfy those who wanted to see 3-D.

 

 

Sloppy, shoddy, inconsistent, and not in the fun, Expendables-type way.

 

 

Fresh off the success (?) of The Expendables 2, van Damme is back (again) as Luc Deveraux.

 

 

Haven’t we seen this before: a young boy, isolated, frightened, able to see dead people? Didn’t he come with a shrink as the vehicle for a shocking reveal? This assumption and the corresponding visceral reaction to The Sixth Sense probably kept me from seeing Paranorman sooner, which is unfortunate. Paranorman is a fine film with meticulous animation, […]

 

 

Profound in its brevity, Refuge explores, time, memory, and the road movie.

 

 

Masterful, suspenseful, simple, satirical.

 

 

A new Ken Burns films that reminds us of New York City in the late 1980’s, the power of coercion, and the paranoia around authority.

 

 

Beautifully animated and full of potential, Brave falls short on story.