Takers is a small but pleasant surprise, an efficient late-summer action-heist film with a tight script and solid performances from an amiable ensemble cast. If it invites but doesn’t quite earn comparisons to Michael Mann’s …
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A Single Man is an earnest story about a gay man genuinely in love with his partner and devastated by his death. It is based on a novel by Christopher Isherwood that was written …
The road movie is a staple of Western film, but rarely does one begin by destroying the hero’s means of transportation.
When I came out of the theater after viewing The Lovely Bones, my mind was dominated by two thoughts:
1) I’ll give Peter Jackson this. He is the type of director who, when he sees a …
The average person, even if he or she is an avid cinephile, really sees a very small percentage of the films released every year. Add to that fact that more and more viewing is done …
Some people live in a world where it seems completely natural to break out into song and dance and others do not. I walk around suppressing the urge to burst into song about 80% of …
