Top Posts & Pages
- Movie Review: A blood feud, a buried "sister" and sacrificial hand binds "The Accursed"
- Movie Review -- "Trevor: The Musical," a Pride Month period piece comes to Disney+
- Netflixable? South Africa's version of "Crash" is titled "Collision"
- Movie Review: A Child Grows up "Tethered" in the Woods
- Netflixable? Even sunny "Toscana" can't save this maudlin Danish Food-and-Daddy-Issues Romance
- Netflixable? A tragedy of WWII recreated, "The Bombardment (Skyggen i mit øje)"
- Documentary Review: Netflix's "One of Us" exposes the horrors of escaping Hasidism
- Netflixable? "RRR," an Action Bromance that Pulls out all the Bollywood Stops
- Movie Review: "The Black Phone" rings up a horror homage to King, "Twilight Zone" and '70s Childhood
- Movie Review -- "The Witch: Part 2, The Other One" gives witches the "Underworld" treatment
Find a Movie Review
Like Movie Nation on Facebook
Daily Archives: March 10, 2013
Critic’s log — Next screening, Danny Boyle’s “Trance”
I just love Danny Boyle, from “Trainspotting” and “Millions,” to even “Sunshine” and of course “Slumdog Millionaire.” And “Trance” has traces of his break-out films, “Shallow Grave” and “Trainspotting” — action, crime, and edge. James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson and Vincent … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Comments Off on Critic’s log — Next screening, Danny Boyle’s “Trance”
Weekend Box Office: “Oz” clears $80 million, Disney breathes sigh of relief
For a movie that cost over $215 million (marketing, etc., all in) to have any prayer of breaking even, it’s got to open as close to half of that amount as possible. Projections for “Oz, the Great and Powerful” have … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Comments Off on Weekend Box Office: “Oz” clears $80 million, Disney breathes sigh of relief
Movie Review: “From Up on Poppy Hill,” a Miyazaki apple that didn’t fall far from the tree
The latest anime from Japan’s famed Studio Ghibli breaks one of the cardinal rules, at least in Hollywood, of animation. Can the story be told without animation? If so, why animate it? There is no mythical “My Neighbor Totoro,” no … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Comments Off on Movie Review: “From Up on Poppy Hill,” a Miyazaki apple that didn’t fall far from the tree
“Star Trek Into Darkness” — the new teaser
More character development, more humor, a better sense of the movie to come. Not bad.
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Comments Off on “Star Trek Into Darkness” — the new teaser