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Watching the opening scene of National Treasure, I found myself tapping my chin thoughtfully as Christopher Plummer told a story about great secrets and treasures from the past to...
Based on the play Scorched by Wajdi Mouawad, Incendies introduces various characters that are destined to collide in a way that would befit a Greek tragedy. In the present...
It is hard to say if The Girl Who Played with Fire stands alone narratively from the über-popular book and movie of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With the Dragon...
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is an intriguing if kind of by-the-book (no pun intended) crime story. The plot itself is gripping, but it is the story-behind-the-story that...
To Catch a Thief is not remembered as being one of Hitchcock’s best… in fact the “mystery” is so obvious right from the start that the revelation at the...
As the closing credits rolled on director Ron Howard’s follow-up/prequel to The Da Vinci Code, my movie-going pal leaned over to me, pointed at the screen and said, “Know...
Changeling came and went in the theaters, despite the star-wattage attached to it (directed by Oscar-winning director Clint Eastwood and starring Oscar-winning Angeline Jolie). Were cinema audience experiencing Angelina...
In the opening scene of A History of Violence, the Stall family is awakened by the screams of young Sarah. Tom (Viggo Mortensen) reaches her first, and as he...
Hayden Christensen plays Clay, a super-rich young man with a domineering and over-protective mother (Lena Olin). Clay has inherited his father’s riches, his business, and one might guess, his...
On paper, this reads like a movie I’d absolutely love: Keira Knightley and James McAvoy in an epic WWII-era romance directed by Joe Wright, who brought the oft-filmed old...
National Treasure: Book of Secrets is a movie that made my dad say, “I might have never seen a movie that dumb before.” Since my dad is smart, and...
I’m starting to think 88 Minutes was designed as some sort of gauntlet for Al Pacino’s talent. It seems like someone actually sat down and said, “Hey, let’s give...
