<em>Big Miracle</em> (Kwapis, 2012)
February 3, 2012 – 12:01 am | No Comment

Big Miracle is the kind of film you dread getting assigned to write about as a film critic, you go to by yourself because none of your friends will join you, you growl through the …

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The Thing ( van Heijningen, Jr., 2011)
October 14, 2011 – 12:34 am | No Comment
<em>The Thing</em> ( van Heijningen, Jr., 2011)

One of my pet peeves in writing or contemporary speech is the lazy way people will misuse the adverb “literally.” 

Courageous (Kendrick,2011)
October 13, 2011 – 12:27 pm | No Comment
<em>Courageous</em> (Kendrick,2011)

I thought I was going to get away without having to write anything about Alex Kendrick’s Courageous, a film which is admittedly hard for me to be fair to at least in part because I’m …

Real Steel (Levy, 2011)
October 7, 2011 – 12:01 am | No Comment
<em>Real Steel</em> (Levy, 2011)

Real Steel is a hard film to not like, so about half way through I stopped trying and just gave myself permission to enjoy it.

African Chelsea (Roske, 2011)
October 3, 2011 – 11:33 pm | No Comment
<em>African Chelsea</em> (Roske, 2011)

I don’t normally say a lot about short films in these pages, but I thought I would give a shout-out to African Chelsea for a couple of reasons.
I’ve mentioned several times in the last few …

50/50 (Levine, 2011)
September 30, 2011 – 12:00 am | No Comment
<em>50/50</em> (Levine, 2011)

Does it really fall on me to be the dissenting voice on this film? Grimace. I don’t want to be. I want to respect it (in fact I do respect it) for its earnestness and …

4th & Goal (Seavey, 2010)
September 19, 2011 – 6:09 pm | No Comment
<em>4th & Goal</em> (Seavey, 2010)

One of the abiding mysteries of film criticism is why there are so few good football movies.