It is easy to see why Gerard Butler accepted the role of a former star soccer player now trying to put his life back together in rural Virginia. Not only is it a nice role that blends athleticism with comedy […]
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Anna Karenina (2012) ☆ 1/2
This is my first brush with Leo Tolstoy’s famous story; I have never read the book, nor seen any of the numerous earlier versions, many of which are considered to be classics. What a mistake I made to see this […]
Continue reading »Hitchcock (2012) ☆ ☆
As with the case of Lincoln, a one-word surname title for Hitchcock does a disservice to both its material and its audience, as neither movie is a full-fledged biography that one would expect of titles which bring to mind images of […]
Continue reading »Killing Them Softly (2012) ☆ ☆
I have been remiss lately about keeping up with reviews, and this movie is to blame. I’ve had a difficult time deciding where I stand on it. On one hand, Andrew Dominik’s low-key mobster film is as intricately written as […]
Continue reading »Silver Linings Playbook (2012) ☆ ☆ ☆
I’ve been trying to find an accurate, descriptive term for Silver Linings Playbook and the best I can generate is “unconventional love story.” It isn’t really a comedy, though some of it is pretty funny, and it isn’t really a drama, […]
Continue reading »Red Dawn (2012) ☆ ☆
Imagine if you will that North Korea, with the help of Soviet Russia, uses an EMP (electro-magnetic pulse) weapon against the western United States and then takes advantage of our downed defenses to invade Spokane, Washington. That is the premise […]
Continue reading »Lincoln (2012) ☆ ☆ 1/2
Every new Steven Spielberg movie is an event for me; I consider him to be the greatest American filmmaker of our time. Spielberg’s best films have an immediacy that brings magic to our mundane reality, and which bring the unbelievable […]
Continue reading »Wreck-It Ralph (2012) ☆ ☆ ☆ 1/2
Disney studios’ newest animated movie is a loving tribute to the video arcade games so popular twenty and thirty years ago. It is nostalgic but not overly sentimental, preferring to update its old-time protagonists into the more modern universe of […]
Continue reading »Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012) ☆ ☆ 1/2
The end has finally arrived for The Twilight Saga, in a fifth film that brings the story to a crescendo of decapitating action before freeing its vampires and shape-shifters to follow their dreams. If, indeed, vampires and shape-shifters dream, since […]
Continue reading »Skyfall (2012) ☆ ☆ ☆
Skyfall is a strange, atypical James Bond adventure. It doesn’t look, feel or sound like a Bond film at various points, and yet the overriding feeling at the end is that the series has restarted, and in a good way. I […]
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