Reviews
Warm Bodies
“This date is not going well. I want to die all over again.” Such are the sentiments of a zombie in love, a character so seldom seen on the big screen. In Warm Bodies, Nicholas Hoult plays such a zombie who—despite a limited vocabulary and a knack for shrugging instead of...
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Bullet to the Head
It’s tough to remember now but Sylvester Stallone is an Oscar-nominated actor. Nominated for his title role in the Oscar-winning Rocky (1976), the muscled man has made audiences forget that nod time and again as he performs in so many mediocre action films that fail to...
Broken City
“Every forum’s the proper forum. Act accordingly,” the contemptible mayor (Russell Crowe) says to his calculating wife in the new film Broken City. Subtly threatening her, he informs her she should sing his praises at every event where she speaks. With the election only...
Amour
Yesterday’s Oscar nominations gave us a few major surprises. From the snub of Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow (“Zero Dark Thirty”) to the exclusion of Ben Affleck (“Argo”) in the directorial race, many critics were wondering what the Academy was...
Gangster Squad
In “Zombieland,” director Ruben Fleischer took a well-known movie subject (zombie attacks) and turned it on its head. The film embraced the lunacy of poor civilians being hunted by the undead. In “Gangster Squad,” the director once more takes a familiar genre—gangster...
Monsters, Inc 3D
It’s been more than a decade since the Pixar animated film “Monsters, Inc.” first arrived in theaters. And like many of its fellow Pixar classics, this idealistic family film remains as wonderful today as it was back in 2001. This week, a 3D version of the film hits...
Hyde Park on Hudson
The choice to cast former “Ghostbuster” Bill Murray as Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, was a clever one indeed. Murray, known predominantly as a comic actor whose quirky roles have made him a must-see star for decades, isn’t the most...
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