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Updated: November/20/2009
Movie review: The Twilight Saga: New Moon ***
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It feels like missing the point to talk about The Twilight Saga: New Moon as a movie. This is a pop culture phenomenon, some weird early 21st century aberration, our equivalent of the hula hoop or dancing the Charleston on a bi-plane's wing.
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Updated: November/20/2009
Movie review: Precious *****
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire is a film not easily shaken. It takes up residence deep within your soul and reminds you almost daily to be thankful for the life you have.
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Updated: November/20/2009
Movie review: The Blind Side ***1/2
Sandra Bullock retrieves much of the career momentum that The Proposal gave her and that All About Steve threatened to kill, with The Blind Side, a surprisingly smart and moving drama about a Memphis steel magnolia who doesn't truly bloom until she takes in a homeless teen and gives him a life.
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Updated: November/20/2009
Movie review: An Education *****
England in the early 1960s was a time of new freedoms and exciting possibilities. It’s an intoxicating environment for young Jenny to enter womanhood.
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Updated: November/18/2009
Sinking his teeth into stardom
The hair is still a mess. But most everything else about Robert Pattinson's life has changed radically in the year since he starred as Twilight's Edward Cullen, the sexiest nonsexual vampire EVER.
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Updated: November/13/2009
Movie review: 2012 ***1/2
2012 is Irwin Allen on steroids. It's a computer-generated spectacle on a massive scale that is completely illogical, wholly unbelievable, and surprisingly fun. The story - what there is of it - has Earth being bombarded with the kind of planet-changing radiation from the sun that happens every 200,000 years or so.
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Updated: November/13/2009
Movie review: Pirate Radio ***
Richard Curtis makes romantic, sentimental, overlong comedies filled to the rafters with friends as cast members. He's a British Judd Apatow - indulgent, substituting sweetness for edge, charm for shock value.
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Updated: November/06/2009
Movie review: Disney's A Christmas Carol **1/2
The holiday season arrives earlier than usual this year with the release of the umpteenth film take on the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol. But this version is unlike any you've seen before.
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Updated: November/06/2009
Movie review: The Men Who Stare at Goats **
The Men Who Stare at Goats takes a promising premise of U.S. soldiers wielding paranormal powers as weapons of peace and a strong-enough cast to pull it off, and squanders it all on an uneven comedy that grows increasingly dull as it wears on.
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Updated: November/06/2009
Movie review: The Fourth Kind **1/2
“I am actress Milla Jovovich,” the star says, directly to the audience as she introduces her new movie, The Fourth Kind.
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Updated: November/06/2009
Movie review: Coco Before Chanel ****
Though Amelie established her in America as a whimsical zany, Audrey Tautou’s essence as an actress has always had much more to do with melancholy, a kind of systemic sadness borne of an innate capacity for unvarnished observation.
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Updated: November/06/2009
Movie review: New York, I Love You **
The title is New York, I Love You, and it’s a collection of shorts intended as one big love letter to the city and all the romance it has to offer.
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Updated: October/30/2009
Movie review: This Is It ****
It's been four months since the untimely death of Michael Jackson at the age of 50. And yet, it doesn't really seem like he's left us.
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Updated: October/23/2009
'Astro Boy' has too much baggage
LOS ANGELES - The animated Astro Boy is a shiny hodgepodge of Pinocchio, WALL-E, Oliver Twist, Gladiator, and Superman, with some obvious visual touches taken from The Iron Giant. As its own entity, though, it's pretty forgettable.
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Updated: October/16/2009
Movie review: Where the Wild Things Are **1/2
To a child, the world can be a frightening, lonely place. Where the Wild Things Are is a manifestation of those fears, a perplexing Freudian ego analysis masquerading as a children's film that will baffle youngsters and leave many adults just as puzzled.
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Updated: October/16/2009
Movie review: Paranormal Activity ***1/2
San Diego, Calif., 2006. Micah and Katie live in a sunny suburban subdivision that is anything but eerie. Yet they're hearing unexplained thumps in the night. Car keys left on the kitchen counter are found on the floor. Micah, a tech guy, sees this as an opportunity to buy a big honkin' video camera and record the midnight creepshow.
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Updated: October/16/2009
Movie review: Law Abiding Citizen **
Law Abiding Citizen is a glib, brutal, and preposterous revenge fantasy, a take-the-law-in-your-own-hands rabble rouser that taps into a lot of fears and genuine gripes about the American legal system. It's the sort of movie Mel Gibson or Clint Eastwood might have made back in the day - a man survives the slaughter of his family by thugs and sets out to get even, and then some.
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Updated: October/09/2009
Movie review: More Than a Game ****1/2
By any standards, it was a special year for the 2002-2003 St. Vincent-St. Mary High School boys basketball team in Akron. Led by LeBron James, the team was the focus of national media attention - including broadcasts of its games on ESPN2, a first for the cable network - with cameras capturing every on-the-court move by the future NBA superstar and his teammates.
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Updated: October/09/2009
Movie review: Couples Retreat **
Couples Retreat was made because of its sunny, sandy location, scenic Bora Bora. Judging from the light, cast members slept late and took it pretty easy, even in the "We rise at dawn" scenes.
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Updated: October/08/2009
Black Swamp International Film Festival makes debut Friday
Finally, it’s here. The Black Swamp Arts International Film Festival, a years-in-the-making celebration of cinema, is packed with screenings of 35 feature-length national and international works, local and animated films, and shorts.
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Updated: October/02/2009
Movie review: Capitalism: A Love Story ****
Michael Moore's latest, Capitalism: A Love Story, is an angry mob of a movie. The film is pitchforks and torches and violent screams to the heavens, with our economic system cast as the villain, a hulking monster rewarding the rich and subjugating the middle class to a lifetime of toil under the never-realized dream of prosperity.
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Updated: October/02/2009
Movie review: Zombieland ****
In the months after the zombie apocalypse, brought on by a virulent mutation of Mad Cow Disease, America has ceased to be.
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Updated: October/02/2009
Movie review: The Invention of Lying ***
The new film from Ricky The Office Gervais may well be the most subtle subversive comedy of the year. It's not disturbingly crude like, say, Sacha Baron Cohen's over-the-top Bruno.
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Updated: September/27/2009
More than a basketball player: LeBron James stars in new documentary
LeBron James stands, and a hundred eyes dart in his direction. He sits, and there's a low buzz of whispers in the room. Necks and heads twist quickly, often violently, in an effort to catch a glimpse of the 6-foot, 8-inch Cleveland Cavaliers player as he gets comfortable in his seat in the front-row balcony of the beautiful Akron Civic Theatre in downtown Akron.
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Updated: September/27/2009
Class experience an A+
Kris Belman just wanted an A in his Introduction to Documentary Filmmaking Class.
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Updated: September/25/2009
Smart 'Surrogates'
If this were 1989, the new sci-fi thriller Surrogates most certainly would feature Arnold Schwarzenegger in the lead role of Greer, a cop distrustful of a society where humans live vicariously through humanoids.
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Updated: September/18/2009
'The Informant!': Is it a comedy or is it a drama?
Examining Steven Soderbergh's oeuvre, you'll find a director with a disparate resume of films: the gritty think-piece Traffic, the drama-bio Erin Brockovich, the audience-pleasing Oceans Eleven franchise, the action-revenge movie The Limey, and even the sci-fi remake Solaris.
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Updated: September/11/2009
Movie review: Whiteout **
Early in Whiteout, a murder mystery set in a South Pole research station, a federal marshal played by Kate Beckinsale strips down and takes a shower.
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Updated: September/11/2009
Movie review: Tetro ***
It is tempting to see Francis Ford Coppola's latest work - Tetro, a visually lush cinematic fugue about love, ambivalence, and two brothers fleeing the dark shadow of their domineering father, a world-famous conductor - through the lens of autobiography. But like much of this movie, the lens appears clouded.
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Updated: September/06/2009
Fall Film Preview: LeBron James and 'Twilight Saga' vampires are coming to theaters
As the weather turns colder and wetter, a warm, dry movie theater becomes increasingly inviting. Fortunately, Hollywood has been kind enough to help you wile away the hours in cinematic comfort with a slate of new fall film releases, starting Wednesday. As usual with the September-December movie schedule, there's a film for everyone, including ...
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Updated: September/04/2009
Movie review: All About Steve *
At times like this, it's good to think positive. That's what Sandra Bullock's socially inept crossword puzzle "constructor" does in All About Steve.
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Updated: September/04/2009
Movie review: Extract **
Ten years ago, Mike Judge satirized the absurdities of the workplace experience from the perspective of put-upon employees with Office Space. It didn’t do much when it came out but, as we all know by now, it became a cult favorite on cable and home video, to the point where it changed the way you looked at the common stapler.
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Updated: August/21/2009
Movie review: Inglourious Basterds ***1/2
The joy of a Quentin Tarantino project is that it's like an expensive buffet where there's so much to feast your eyes upon you're never quite sure where to begin. The director's latest effort, Inglourious Basterds, opening in Toledo on Friday, is no different. It's a fun, over-the-top action-thriller set in Nazi-occupied France that begs for repeated viewings.
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Updated: August/21/2009
Movie review: Post Grad **
Because Alexis Bledel plays the same determined, intelligent, and likable character that she brought to life on Gilmore Girls for so many years, there’s a natural inclination to think of Post Grad as “Rory Gilmore’s College Daze.” On closer examination, such a new moniker would do an injustice to the Gilmore clan.
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Updated: August/21/2009
Movie review: Shorts ***
Robert Rodriguez channels his inner 11-year-old with Shorts, a childish but fun wish fulfillment fantasy for kids that's equal parts boogers, big messages, and product placement.
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Updated: August/18/2009
Miley Cyrus stalking suspect to appear in court
TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. — A 53-year-old man charged with attempting to stalk Miley Cyrus is scheduled to head back to court on Tybee Island, where the teen superstar just finished shooting a movie on the Georgia coast.
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Updated: August/14/2009
Movie review: The Time Traveler's Wife ***1/2
Henry DeTamble (Eric Bana) is a time traveler. His shifts in time don't involve an intricate device born of the imagination of H.G. Wells; his is a simpler, stranger agent - a gene anomaly. The downside to his temporal journeys is that Henry can't control when he leaves and where he goes. His body just quickly melts into nothingness, leaving behind only a pile of the clothes he was wearing.
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Updated: August/14/2009
Movie review: Ponyo **
If you're 5 years old, or under the influence of some sort of hallucinogenic drug, Ponyo is probably awesome. Clearly, these are the ideal scenarios in which to watch the latest animated fantasy from Japanese writer-director Hayao Miyazaki.
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Updated: August/14/2009
Movie review: Bandslam ***
The late John Hughes would have liked Bandslam, an upbeat high school musical that plays like a garage-band cover of The Breakfast Club.
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Updated: August/12/2009
Channing Tatum sees a lot of action in hit film ‘G.I. Joe’
It isn’t easy to star in a film whose main characters are based on toys. Take it from Channing Tatum, who stars in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, playing the leader of an elite military unit targeting international black-market arms dealers.
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Updated: August/07/2009
Movie review: Julie & Julia *****
Julie & Julia is a marvel, and a joyous celebration of life through cooking. It's that rare sweet summer comedy that buoys your spirits and isn't ashamed to make you smile.
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Updated: August/07/2009
Movie review: (500) Days of Summer ****
If you've ever sifted through your breakup photos, sorting images of glory days, painful days, and days you didn't understand at the time, you have an idea of (500) Days of Summer.
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