• December 29, 2008
• At Home, Drama, Romance, War

American Son is a timely, thoughtful indie film about a young man named Mike (Nick Cannon) who is about to be deployed to Iraq.  Only a four-day Thanksgiving holiday...

• December 28, 2008
• Adventure, At Home, Drama

Now, why is it there there are no excellent Viking movies out there? I mean, people love warriors, battles, raping, and pillaging when it comes to movie mayhem. Movies...

• December 18, 2008
• At Home, Drama, Horror

I had barely heard anything about this film when I saw it. Except that it was a Swedish vampire movie. Well, alright. But then a friend breathlessly told me...

• December 16, 2008
• At Home, Drama, Romance

Nicholas Sparks is clearly an agent of evil. Who else can write stories that are sappier than maple syrup and still win you over in the end? I made...

• November 28, 2008
• At Home, Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Let me get a few things out of the way before delving into my review of Twilight… Yes, I read the book and enjoyed it. Yes, I read the...

• November 17, 2008
• At Home, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Audrey Hepburn is perhaps best-known for her stylish and hip performance in Breakfast at Tiffany’s—with her timeless Hubert de Givenchy fashions and long skinny cigarette holder (not to mention...

• November 10, 2008
• At Home, Drama, War

I just read a review of this movie that completely, and utterly, ripped it apart. The reviewer was appalled by the fact that a movie could be made about...

• July 22, 2008
• Action, At Home, Crime, Drama

As I write this review, The Dark Knight is the #1 Movie of All Time on the IMDB Top 250 readers’ poll. At 115,000 votes and counting, will there...

• July 15, 2008
• Adventure, At Home, Comedy, Drama

Is it possible that I’ve never seen a Martin Lawrence movie before College Road Trip? I went through my mental rolodex, then double-checked the IMDB. Bad Boys? No. Big...

• May 30, 2008
• At Home, Drama, Romance

Spider Lilies is the story of Takeko (Isabella Leong), a lonely tattoo artist who keeps to herself, and only seems to have social contact with her withdrawn adult brother...

• April 29, 2008
• At Home, Drama

From the opening moments of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, you know you are in for something different. The camera is blurry and disoriented. It has a hard...

• March 28, 2008
• At Home, Crime, Drama

Con men,  expert thieves, scientific geniuses, whatever. If they’re able to somehow outsmart a system, I’m in. So the prospect of watching a movie about a bunch of college...