Safety Not Guaranteed — Angst and Time Travel
The characters familiar, the story sweet, the ending a distraction.
Reviews
Head Games — Contradicting Passions
Head Games takes a look at the contradictions in our love for sports, and the contradictions therein.
Mirror Mirror — Reflections on Parentheticals
An fanciful and luminous film shot in the style of a ballet akin to The Nutcracker or Peter and the Wolf shouldn’t be sabotaged by…
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy — Imagine the Number of Disappointed Teenagers who Stumbled onto This Post
It’s hard to imagine that the title didn’t deter people from seeing the film. Just imagine talking to a significant other or a group of…
Footnote — All Just a Little Bit of History Repeating
Two rival professors in Talmudic studies come to grips with their academic desires as well as the confrontation that looms within their own personal histories.
Dark Shadows — The Disney Demon Might Almost Be … Nevermind
Burton and Depp are coming closer to eradicating the tent-pole film machine known as Disney, but they’re not there yet.
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel — Outsourcing Sympathy
Even though it ends with a saccharine, fortuitous, foreseeable ending, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is an endearing and frightening journey for our cast of…
The Bad News Bears — Love and Hate of Sports
Since the first time I viewed it as an eight year old (around 1989), The Bad News Bears was something of a pedestrian, underdog baseball…
The Master — Bait for the Able-Bodied Masses
Designated by chatter as an exploration of Scientology, The Master defies categorization and offers a beautiful film featuring a war veteran caught in the midst…
Wall E — Using Technology to Explore the Dangers of Technology
Characteristically Pixar, Wall E lures us in with endearing characters, but traps us in a web of irony and self-reflection.