Category: Movie Reviews

  • Shutter Island

    Some movies aren’t fun to watch, but still have value at an intellectual or artistic level. Some are a blast to sit through, but the overall experience is much more entertaining than the mediocre sum of it’s parts. But watching a film that does neither doesn’t make for a very rewarding or satisfying experience. Such…

  • Avatar

    Many great films are so because their effect and artistry is a result of the combined sum of their parts. Avatar is not one of those films. It is instead a great film because of a few very specific, yet revolutionary parts, which overshadow the mediocrity and unoriginal aspects of several other main components. Avatar…

  • “Where The Wild Things Are”

    Regardless of your initial expectations, odds are that Spike Jonze’s ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ will find a way to defy them. Based on Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book, ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ tells the story of a complicated young boy, Max, (played by newcomer Max Records) and his journey to a distant land…

  • “The September Issue”

    R.J. Cutler offers up a deliciously indulgent peek at fashion-icon, Anna Wintour, Editor-in-chief of American Vogue since 1988 in this fascinating and addicting documentary. You might remember it was Meryl Streep’s character, Miranda Priestly, in The Devil Wears Prada that was “loosely” based on Wintour’s reputation. Like being a fly-on-the wall, Cutler offers us a…