All Is Lost–Movie Review
All Is Lost (IMDB) is an artistic tour de force, a sailing adventure movie with only one actor and just a few spoken lines, which still manages to be gripping… Read more »
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Dallas Buyers Club–Movie Review
Dallas Buyers Club (IMDB) is a powerful but somewhat tendentious movie based loosely on a true story. It features notably strong performances by Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto. In 1985… Read more »
Ender’s Game–Movie Review
Ender’s Game (IMDB) is a troubling morally-ambiguous movie based on a classic science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card (which is also troubling and morally ambiguous.) Decades ago Earth was… Read more »
Board of Education Inspection Report: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Via Slate comes a damning report on a school that obviously should be shut down at once. Behaviour of students is very poor indeed. Staff seem to maintain their grip… Read more »
Enough Said–Movie Review
Enough Said (IMDB) is an unusually smart and insightful romantic comedy. This does not mean that it is the sort of movie that will dazzle you with brilliant witty dialog…. Read more »
Gravity–Movie Review
Gravity (IMDB) is an exciting and visually stunning science fiction thriller. Director Alfonso Cuarón has put in a tremendous effort to get the technical details right. Space geeks will probably… Read more »
Rush–Movie Review
“A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.” ― Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom Rush (IMDB) is a sports biopic about… Read more »
The World’s End–Movie Review
The World’s End (IMDB) is a quirky British comedy that is not what it first seems. Gary (Simon Pegg) is a middle-aged ne’er-do-well whose fondest memory is the night of… Read more »
The Spectacular Now–Movie Review
The Spectacular Now (IMDB) is an interesting character study with some excellent performances but it is marred by an abrupt and implausible happy ending. Sutter Keely (Miles Teller) is a… Read more »
Blue Jasmine–Movie Review
Blue Jasmine (IMDB) is one of Woody Allen’s darker films. The acting is terrific. The writing is insightful and full of dark ironic humor. The downside is that this is… Read more »