Movie and TV Reviews.
Fresh off of the Academy Awards, I thought I would go in the opposite direction for a little bit and review one of the worst movies I have seen in a long time, the 1986 George Lucas travesty Howard the Duck.
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With no shortage of first-class boxing dramas in the last forty years, it seems only fitting that The Fighter join former heavyweight champs Rocky, Raging Bull, Million Dollar Baby, The Hurricane, Cinderella Man, and Ali as a major contender in the ring of motion picture greatness. David O’Russell’s darkly funny and tragic film springs from […]
Midway through The Hunt for Red October a few nights ago, my wife turned to me and said “Why don’t they make movies like this anymore?” I asked her what she meant, and she said “You know, movies with just a really good plot.” As we spent a good chunk of our evening watching Jack […]
Visual excess abounds for Peter Jackson, whose imagination runs wild with the imagery provided by the text of Alice Sebold’s 2002 novel. Surprisingly, Jackson has less of a human element present in his crack at ‘The Lovely Bones’ than he did in his spectacularly bloated rendition of ‘King Kong’ four years ago. With so much […]
