Monthly Archives: May 2014

“Words and Pictures” is the cloying title of a cloying little comedy made by talented people who, not that long ago, deserved better than this, and knew it.It’s a nearly two-hour long “meet cute” academic romance from the director of … Continue reading →

  He was one of the greatest of the greats from the Golden Age of cinematographers as painters, the American Sven Nyqvist or Vittorio Storarro. Gordon Willis shot gorgeous looking Westerns (“Bad Company”), stunning mob epics (“The Godfather”) and the … Continue reading →

Audiences prone to going to a movie’s opening weekend are even more prone to dash off to a movie they’re dying to see late night Thursday or Friday. Especially with regards to summer popcorn pictures. So…”Godzilla” shot his wad Friday. … Continue reading →

Those sneaky French — turning a romantic comedy into a trilogy, maybe even a franchise, without even telling us.It started in 2002, in Barcelona, with a bunch of foreign exchange students — meeting, flirting and falling into one another’s arms … Continue reading →

Hats off to the Warner Brothers marketing department. They assessed that there was a hankering for a monster movie in epic scale. They shook off the weaker returns of “Pacific Rim” and plowed onward. They didn’t spend a lot on … Continue reading →

James McAvoy has played the odd scoundrel, here and there. Think of his break-out turn in “The Last King of Scotland,” his fanatical cop in “Welcome to the Punch” or wily con man in the art world turn in “Trance.”But … Continue reading →

So as I said in my review, “Godzilla” is very kid friendly. It plays to me like a lot of the “Godzilla’s our friend” kid-friendly movies in this long running franchise,a “Godzilla vs. Mothra” sort of outing, without any laughs, … Continue reading →

In his latest film, “A Night in Old Mexico,” Robert Duvall rages, as the poet put it, “against the dying of the light.” As Red, a crusty old rancher who has lost his land, who has no close family left … Continue reading →