Film Review: Taken 3 (2015)
byThankfully, this time no one gets abducted, apparently due to Liam Neeson’s request that the film go in a different direction. This being the…
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Film Review: Into the Woods (2014)
byStrange things happen in the woods. At any given moment in Rob Marshall‘s adaptation of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine‘s musical Into the Woods,…
Film Review: The Imitation Game (2014)
by“Sometimes it is the people no-one imagines anything of who do the things no-one can imagine.” Thus is the theme for director Morten Tyldum’s…
Film Review: Big Hero 6 (2014)
byThis year’s obligatory Boxing Day animated release is Disney’s Big Hero 6, based on the Marvel comic of the same name. Upping the cute…
Film Review: Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014)
byA few years have passed since the Battle of the Smithsonian and Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) is successfully disguising his wax figures coming to…
Film Review: Mr. Turner (2014)
byIn his biography of the early nineteenth century painter J.M.W. Turner acclaimed filmmaker Mike Leigh not only crafts a rich and textured portrayal of…
Film Review: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
byPeter Jackson‘s The Hobbit series has thrown almost everyone into mutually exclusive camps: the haters and the indifferent. For what is essentially a bit…
Film Review: St Vincent (2014)
bySt Vincent is a great opportunity for Bill Murray to do what Bill Murray does best. But, what’s the issue with that? This is…
Film Review: The Holiday (2006)
bySet around the Christmas season, The Holiday follows the life of Iris (Kate Winslet), a romantically struggling journalist, and Amanda (Cameron Diaz), another character…
Film Review: The Polar Express (2004)
by‘Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can’t see’, declares The Conductor, played swimmingly by…