Admission is a strange movie and difficult for me to evaluate.  Its major strength is the look it provides into the world of college recruitment, with dedicated admission counselors (such as Tina Fey, Gloria Reuben and Wallace Shawn) evaluating and sometimes […]

While I sincerely hope that nothing like what occurs in Olympus Has Fallen ever takes place on American soil, I must admit that I like movies like this, and I really, really like this one.  Antoine Fuqua’s thriller is plausible, dramatic, […]

Magic (as it is performed) is a hard sell for me; I’ve never loved either the illusions themselves nor the showmanship required to distract the audience from perceiving those illusions.  It is difficult for me to appreciate such trickery and […]

Since winning her Oscar way back in 2001 beautiful Halle Berry has made her share of turkeys (Catwoman, Perfect Stranger, Gothika, Movie 43, Catwoman, etc.), but The Call is not one of them.  The Call is surprisingly realistic, suspenseful and even thrilling. […]

One of the five Best Foreign Language entries for the 2012 Oscars is this Chilean political film directed by Pablo Larrain.  No is a historical reenactment, using actual footage from the time period, of the 1988 political campaign to unseat the […]

When Hollywood tackles history sometimes the result is an uneasy mixture of what really happened and what might have happened.  This is certainly the case with Emperor, which spotlights the dilemma facing General Douglas MacArthur (Tommy Lee Jones) when he […]