Film Reviews
Category“The Fault In Our Stars” Survival Guide
However useless I would be in the event of plagues, natural disasters and the like, I am your best friend when it comes to social phenomen..
“Palo Alto”: That’s Franco for “pale and alt”
The tragedy of James Franco telling stories about teenagers is that he played a role—but not a creative role—in Freaks and Geeks (1999-200..
“The Unknown Known”: Donald Rumsfeld throws his hands in the air like he just doesn’t care
The Unknown Known feels like a movie that was frustrating to make, and not just because we can repeatedly hear director Errol Morris’s exa..
My Internal Tweet Monologue During “Divergent”
No mystery behind teen apocalypse phenom: Your feelings are literally the center of the world & u get hot bf. SOLD.
Gasp! It’s Rose! Wh..
“The Grand Budapest Hotel”: A breakneck caper that breaks your heart
If only The Grand Budapest Hotel had arrived a month earlier. Only now, when those of us in northern climes are finally emerging from a th..
“RoboCop” and “About Last Night” remakes: Totally not 80s
It’s hard to imagine About Last Night (1986) and RoboCop (1987) ever sharing a double bill, except maybe at a desperate drive-in during th..
“The Lego Movie” takes license with Batman, Lando, and wizardly BFFs
After a preview screening of The Lego Movie at the Mall of America theater, my friend Lisa and I stopped by the Lego store downstairs. “I ..
In Spike Jonze’s “Her,” The Future is a Soft Pink and Emotionally Vulnerable Place
Different filmmakers tend to latch onto one color that represents what they think the future will be like. Will it be green and optimistic..
“Her”: Spike Jonze Fumbles Towards Ecstasy
The movies and videos of Spike Jonze are full of memorable moments, but perhaps the definitive illustration of what separates Jonze from h..
Wolf of Wall Street – A Eulogy for Douchebags
Before I see any movie, I usually avoid reading reviews. I like to have my own opinion first, and then see what others think (especial..
“The Wolf of Wall Street”: A Guilt-Optional Pleasure
At one point in The Wolf of Wall Street, Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) notes incredulously that the federal investigator pursuing him..
“Saving Mr. Banks” flies like a lead kite
There’s a scene in Saving Mr. Banks where Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) tells a moving story about his childhood job delivering papers for his h..