Category: Movies

Hugo–Movie Review

What should we expect to get if Martin Scorsese made a heartwarming family film? As it turns out, Hugo is mostly a love poem to the early pioneers of film… Read more »

50/50–Movie Review

50/50 is sort of like a Judd Apatow comedy except it’s about cancer. The movie is loosely based on the experiences of screenwriter Will Reiser who is now in apparent… Read more »

Moneyball–Movie Review

Moneyball is an unusual sports movie, perhaps a sports movie for people who hate sports movies. A slightly fictionalized adaptation of Michael Lewis’s book, it ignores the usual sports movie… Read more »

Contagion–Movie Review

Contagion is an unusual disaster film: tightly written, thoughtful and totally plausible. Pretty much everything that is shown could actually happen and in fact is not particularly unlikely. The movie… Read more »