Some titles are better than others, of course, and Arbitrage is one of those that is more confusing than commanding.  It is a financial term which I had never heard before and it is difficult to pronounce as well.  Unless one […]

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Twenty years after Unforgiven, it’s still a bit of a shock to see Clint Eastwood as a frail old man.  Now 82, it shouldn’t be a surprise that the iconic Man with No Name can no longer embody the lethal […]

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The cast lured me to this poorly-titled espionage thriller, but even with solid contributions from Bruce Willis and Sigourney Weaver, I am quite disappointed with the result.  Based on the way that the American spies disrupt the city of Madrid, […]

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I’m all for new, unique and different movies to watch, but not everything new, unique or different is good.  And Branded is not good.  It’s a Russian-American co-production which posits that advertising and marketing is a global evil used to foist […]

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The worst aspect about this movie is probably its title, which is so generic that it is meaningless, and not memorable at all.  And I’m not sure that Tom Arnold is very good as a sweaty federal marshal, but no […]

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Usually when a movie is “based on a true story,” as Lawless is purported to be, it piques my interest.  Fictionalizations of actual events often induce me to learn more about the situation in question.  However, because of the relentless unpleasantness […]

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First, let me state that Hope Springs is the type of movie that Hollywood should make more often.  It is a movie about people and their very real emotions, contains no high concept, and provides a nice role for our finest […]

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I haven’t seen a bicycle messenger movie this good since Quicksilver!  Actually, that 1986 Kevin Bacon film wasn’t very good, so Premium Rush certainly qualifies as the best bicycle messenger movie I have ever seen. Much of the rush of Premium […]

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Moviegoers around the world continually chastise Hollywood filmmakers for their perceived lack of originality, and for the copious amounts of cinematic crap they produce.  I know; I’ve done it, too.  Yet every once in a while someone makes a movie […]

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I’ve enjoyed the Matt Damon-led Jason Bourne films of the past decade, although, truth be told, I doubt if I could coherently explain just what it is about Treadstone and Blackbriar that is forcing the CIA to hunt Bourne all […]

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