Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. I won’t say this movie was perfect, but it’s about as perfect as a movie of a very long book can be. In other words, it was great. Yes, the hard-core Potter fans are going to complain about the number of memories Dumbledore shows Harry, or that there wasn’t…
Editor’s Note: Since most of us comedy film nerds are a bit… older, have grown up with the Star Wars franchise and hate seeing it slowly destroyed, we thought we should get a fresh younger perspective on this film. And yet I think both the young and older have come together on this one. It…
Tom Hanks returns as Professor Langdon in this adaptation of the sequel of the bestselling “The Da Vinci Code.” Langdon is again the detective in this second religious-history whodunnit. And, of course, the mystery to be solved is tailored to him to a T. Otherwise, as the captain of the Swiss Guard so aptly puts…
Films made as book adaptations are often hard enough. You don’t always know what you’re going to get on the screen. But sometimes you’re really impressed. So when I heard Spike Jonze was making a film of “Where the Wild Tings Are”, I was alternately delighted and wary. How do you make a movie…
Well, another Halloween down, and that means another Shriekfest has also crept into the history books. Or shall I say; the dusty, creaky tomes of yesterdays. Nonetheless, it was a treat to attend as it was last year. Our gracious hosts, Denise Gossett and Todd Beeson, always put on a great festival of independent films. …
“Amelia” is the story of Amelia Earhart portrayed by Hilary Swank, who you may know at the… OMG, I’m bored just thinking about it. This is the most boring biopic of any I’ve seen. From the first line I was bored. And there’s no reason to be bored. It’s Amelia Earhart, known for having…
If you want to see Good Hair and you don’t live in a predominantly Black neighborhood you have to go to a predominantly Black neighborhood. This review will reflect my “Black Experience” (Version 2.0 – I took Intro To Black Experience when I taught Head Start in Milwaukee in 1990). The film was…
When you watch a movie like 2012, the last thing on the studio’s mind is movie reviews. They just don’t matter. So what can I say about 2012 other than the fact that it was absurdly entertaining to watch a movie made inside a computer by a director who has the emotional development of…
Ugh! I got the first Twilight. I liked it. I’m not in the desired demographic, but I get it. It’s a sexy teen vampire romance. Who wouldn’t like that? Hot vampire Edward Cullen is a bad boy. He thirsts for his girlfriend’s blood. That’s the ultimate bad boy. But this movie, the second…
Bad Lieutenant is not a sequel to Bad Lieutenant staring naked Harvey Keitel. The movie is about an entirely different bad lieutenant and the producers thought it would be a good idea to name it after the 1992 film that was also not very good. Even the director, Werner Herzog said they shouldn’t name…