The Movie

When does honoring one's country become blind allegiance to evil? That's just one of many provocative questions raised by Good, a cinematic adaptation of the late British playwright C.P. Taylor's 1981 play. Effectively a character study of professor John Halder (Viggo Mortensen), who finds himself slowly assimilated into the ranks of the Nazis, Good traces the ascent of the Nazi Party in Germany in the late 1930s, as an otherwise astute intellectual is steadily seduced by the power and prestige of the nascent National Socialist movement and his shocking lack of moral outrage.

It must've been sorely tempting for screenwriter John Wrathall and director Vicente Amorim to draw parallels to contemporary society, particularly America in the wake of 9/11, and its tendency to drift toward us-vs.-them mentalities. Yet, the film shies away from overplaying its hand ...Read the entire review

THE FILM

I'm not sure what type of film "The Six Wives of Henry Lefay" was supposed to be, but I guess there's a comfort in knowing the filmmakers didn't either. Part madcap comedy, part weepy funeral saga, the picture is a mess, hopelessly failing a colorful cast making an effort to lend the film some personality. It seems director Howard Michael Gould didn't value the attempt, wasting a few commendable performances on a meaningless feature that doesn't provide profundity or laughs.

A womanizing rapscallion, Henry Lefay (Tim Allen) has died in Mexico while parasailing. Returning home to deal with the death is daughter Barbara (Elisha Cuthbert), who's confronted with uneasy feelings about a man she never respected. Unfortunately, there's little time to grieve, with Henry's cabal of ex-wives (including Andie MacDowell, Jenna Elfman, Paz Vega, and Lindsay Sloane) read...Read the entire review

The Film:

THE FILM

"Triage" is a frustratingly incomplete motion picture about the nightmarish world of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. It's a passionately made feature with emotionally charged performances, but it stands empty, incapable of reaching out and finding a connection to the horrors on display. It's a film to admire from afar, taking on the challenge of depicting war zone trauma, but it rarely connects in any sort of profound manner.

A photojournalist in Kurdistan covering the war, Mark (Colin Farrell) has lost touch with the aggressive reality of his surroundings, bringing along pal David (Jamie Sives) to help with the reporting, only to find his friend sensitive to the bloodshed. Going their separate ways, Mark heads deeper into the conflict, soon severely wounded during an attack. Returning home to Europe and to his Spanish wife, Elena (Paz Vega), Mark is a changed m...Read the entire review

THE FILM

Grief is such a tricky emotion to handle in film. It's an elusive sensation, often manifesting itself in resolute silence, which doesn't always register cleanly for the cameras. "The Greatest" is not a picture of complete quiet, but it's marvelous when it settles into a hushed mood of introspection and unspoken personal connection; a sweeping feeling of sea change reflected through a trio of splendid actors and their unexpected articulation of mourning.

On the very evening that teenagers Bennett (Aaron Johnson) and Rose (Carey Mulligan) have consummated their hasty coupling, a car accident separates them forever, killing the young boy. Bennett's father Allen (Pierce Brosnan), mother Grace (Susan Sarandon), and brother Ryan (Johnny Simmons) are forced to deal with the death in their own ways, but pressure is applied to the household when Rose seeks shelter, arri...Read the entire review

THE MOVIE:

It's no secret that Stephen King is one of the most adapted authors of our time. However, even he isn't above the law of averages. We've seen successful interpretations of his work and some glaring misfires. The last few years have been good for fans of King with The Mist and 1408 coming through in a big way. With Dolan's Cadillac director Jeff Beesley has unfortunately managed to swing the scales back towards mediocrity. He has employed one of King's short stories from the Nightmares and Dreamscapes collection to give us a seething tale of revenge told in an oddly artsy manner.

Robinson (Wes Bentley) and his wife, Elizabeth (Emmanuelle Vaugier), are teachers in love who are attemp...Read the entire review

THE FILM

While entitled "Motherhood," this picture doesn't set aside much time to explore the colorful rituals of child rearing. It's a much more self-involved drag, observing characters one would never tolerate in real life, funneled into a faulty empowerment lecture that ends up an insufferable dramatic spin-out. There's nothing much here on the wonders of parental obligation to reinforce the mood, only ineffective flecks of comedy and abrasively broad performances to help sell an unwelcome foray into me-me-me individuality.

Long ago, Eliza Welsh (Uma Thurman) gave up her promising writing aspirations to become a parent to two children, with husband Avery (Anthony Edwards) maintaining a job that leaves the child rearing to the harried mommy. Attempting to juggle the daily struggles of parenthood with her efforts to maintain a motherhood blog, Eliza finds her patience w...Read the entire review

The Film:

Funny thing about people who make movies: they generally don't watch 'em. When it comes to genre pictures, it probably isn't that important; an executive producer's awareness of a previous romantic comedy, slasher film or buddy-cop actioner wouldn't be reason shake up the formula, because the formula is the movie. When rocking the boat is the goal, though, it actually pays to know what came before. Give 'Em Hell, Malone doesn't skimp on the gunplay, which was the centerpiece of the popular trailer that popped up online months and months ago, but the movie is filled with the kind of "originality" that feels fresh only to those people who haven't been keeping tabs on what's been made in the few years.

To be fair, the style-homage adapted by Malone has an even bigger problem that trumps the familiarity: consistency. In the film's opening scene, Malone (Thomas Jane) is in the process...Read the entire review

The Movie:

An introductory scene, made in s style similar to an old educational movie, introduces us to Staten Island, the forgotten borough of New York City, a part of the metropolis that pales in comparison to The Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and especially the one it is geographically closest to, Manhattan. Yet, as the introduction tells us, for some reason Staten Island is a popular place for the Mafia. Maybe it's the more spacious living conditions, the more relaxed atmosphere or, as the film points out, the forests and swamps that make the perfect dumping ground for dead bodies which attracts mobsters, but regardless, this is, if the film is to be believed, fact.

With that in mind, the film introduces us to Parmetto 'Parmie' Tarzo (Vincent D'Onofrio), a small time mob boss with big plans. He's bound and determined to start a mob war and take over the island, something that his co...Read the entire review

THE FILM

A distinctive tone of dark whimsy is what director Gregory Mackenzie is searching for with the black comedy "Camille," but he mostly encourages a constipated quality that's neither humorous nor daring. Perhaps best described as a zombie rom-com, "Camille" is allowed the luxury of two lead actors able to swallow their embarrassment, giving the script a special spin as it slowly but surely drives straight into a wall of ludicrousness.

On the eve of her wedding day, Camille (Sienna Miller) is filled with excitement, ready to make her lifelong boyfriend, Silas (James Franco), her husband. Trouble is, Silas wants nothing to do with Camille, going through with the wedding to please her father (Scott Glenn), a cop who's helped Silas out of trouble on numerous occasions. On their way to Niagara Falls, Silas fails to contain his frustration with Camille's sunny personality and cha...Read the entire review

"Till

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death do us part" isn't a vow; it's wishful thinking. See, Silas (James Franco) can't stomach the giddy, yammering, Southern-fried chatterbox he's about to marry, but Camille Read the entire review

For about 20 minutes, Night Train plays a familiar but entertaining game. Three strangers on a train -- a conductor named Miles (Danny Glover), a businessman named Peter (Steve Zahn), and a med school student named Chloe (Leelee Sobieski) -- discover that the wooden box a newly-deceased passenger is clutching contains a treasure worth millions. All they'd have to do is slip the body off the train, and nobody would ever know he was even there. Not the most original premise by any means, but as Roger Ebert says, it's not what a movie's about, but how it is about it that's important. Unfortunately, writer/director M. Brian King (or Brian King, according to IMDb) isn't interested in the internal battle of right and wrong, and decides to introduce other disappointing elements, like police officers, butcher knives and stupidity.

At first, Miles wants nothing to do with the treasure, because he knows...Read the entire review

The Movie:

Brian King's Night Train is a mess of a picture, tonally scattered, shoddily made, assembled out of spare parts. But it's also oddly entertaining; you're aware of the obvious influences and the befuddling scenes and the awful special effects, and yet it keeps plugging away, following every insane turn as if it made complete narrative sense. There are plenty of complaints to be lobbed against Night Train, most of them valid, but I'll give it this much: it ain't boring.

The setting is Christmas Eve, and that's about all we know; the place and timeframe are strangely indeterminate, and the opening scenes are so streamlined that it almost feels like we're joining the picture already in progress. Danny Glover is Miles, the conductor on a sparsely-populated late night train; med student Chloe (Leelee Sobieski) and traveling salesman Peter (Steve Zahn) are two of t...Read the entire review

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Heather Graham has a Nerf dart stuck on her forehead! Geez, and she just ripped one during a big meeting with Lara Flynn Boyle who -- yikes! -- is kinda starting to look like Eric Stoltz in Mask. Wait, wait...Read the entire review