by Allison S.
2.5 / 5 stars
She’s Out of My League is funny. More important, it’s not unfunny. So, so many recent comedies have the “funny” but with a rather high unfunny-to-funny content ratio. For every joke you laugh at in their trailers, there’s about 20 more you won’t laugh at while actually watching the film. […]
by Norm Schrager
4 / 5 stars
A Serious Man may be the most Jewish movie I’ve ever seen. Sure, there are plenty of films about actually being Jewish — The Chosen, A Price Above Rubies — but the Coen Brothers’ character examination is ridiculously gratuitously Jewish. Nu? Such strangeness is not such a bad thing, especially […]
by Allison S.
2.5 / 5 stars
Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland is as amazing to look at as you could imagine. The attention to detail is impressive. Not only does the Queen of Hearts have a heart shape painted on for lips, the others in her kingdom follow suit (ha) with spades, clubs and diamonds for […]
by Norm Schrager, posted 02.26.10
2.5 / 5 stars
In this era of lightning-fast flesh-eating zombies and the relentlessly pugilistic diseased, you’d expect a remake of George Romero’s The Crazies to be full-blast nuts. It’s not. That’s okay, you can appreciate that director Breck Eisner would rather inject his update with a more traditional flavor — but […]
by Norm Schrager
4.5 / 5 stars
For decades, Martin Scorsese has been peering into the psyches of troubled men, from Travis Bickle to Howard Hughes. Teddy Daniels may very well be the most troubled of them all. Played by Leonardo DiCaprio in Shutter Island, Daniels is a U.S. Marshal in the 1950s with buried nightmares from […]
