Little Red Wagon (Anspaugh, 2012)
The simple narrative and self-consciously "PG" script will no doubt prompt Lifetime movie comparisons from some (sarcastic) circles, but a strong cast and crew keep the film from succumbing to excessive bathos.
Category: Disclosure
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Red Hook Summer (Lee, 2012)
All of which might explained why Spike Lee’s latest film, Red Hook Summer, manages to seem fresh and provocative even as it’s undermined by some of the most uneven filmmaking I've seen all year.
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Les Misérables (Hooper, 2012)
Watching Les Misérables is a bit like listening to a young pop star do a cover of a Beatles classic. She can have all the talent in the world, but it still sounds somehow wrong.
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Jackson, 2012)
Parts are camp comedy, parts CGI sword slashing, parts solemn intonations about fate and when not to kill.
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The Central Park Five (Burns, Burns, and McMahon)
The most depressing thing about The Central Park Five, for me, was its only hazy familiarity.
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The Sessions (Lewin, 2012)
The same thing that makes The Sessions better than expected is what makes it naggingly incomplete: it takes sex seriously.
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Love Birds (Murphy, 2011)
Love Birds is an innocuous romantic comedy from New Zealand featuring a sad mope (Rhys Darby) who adopts and nurses a duck and eventually falls for the woman (Sally Hawkins) to whom he turns for advice.
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Head Games (James, 2012)
I will say that judging nobody but myself, I feel convicted for the money and time I spend that create an inducement--some might say a temptation--for other human beings to put their long-term health at risk for my pleasure.
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Macky Alston Interview
“God’s Mandate is to Love One Another”