• November 26, 2006
• At Home

Against the Ropes isn’t a total failure or washout. It is the type of film that is the quality of an average, if forgettable, made-for-TV film. No one really...

• November 26, 2006
• At Home, Documentary

You will not a find a more entertaining, heartfelt or unapologetically spirited documentary anywhere this year. You won’t. In fact, I dare you to try. Because, seriously, Summercamp! is fantastic. It’s...

• November 22, 2006
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction, Thriller

Got it? Good, because then maybe you can watch the movie without the knotted brain and perplexed expression that overcame me about 30 minutes in and lasted through the...

• November 22, 2006
• At Home, Comedy, Family

Like a steaming cinematic turd, this hollow and horrible Christmas comedy arrives on screens just in time to disappoint families for the holidays. I’m not sure what happened to...

• November 18, 2006
• Action, At Home, Crime, Thriller

I’d like to take this opportunity to thank Daniel Craig for doing something that no other actor playing superspy 007 has ever been able to do before: get me...

• November 1, 2006
• Action, Adventure, At Home

There are scenes in Gladiator that were directly lifted out of this Stanley Kubrick classic. The story of a slave who becomes a gladiator who becomes a general, and...

• November 1, 2006
• At Home, Drama

Rinko is a pretty yet reserved crisis hotline counselor. Of course, behind her somewhat dorky glasses and conservative dress is a siren waiting to explode. But it ain’t going...

• November 1, 2006
• At Home, Documentary

If anything, it offers a character portrait of one man who is not afraid to stand on his own pedestal and shake his liberal fist at conservative pundits and...

• October 27, 2006
• At Home, Crime, Mystery, Thriller

I first saw this film a few years ago at a film festival, enjoyed it, and was later appalled when I heard that Brad Pitt has optioned the rights...

• October 27, 2006
• Action, At Home, Crime, Drama

With the success of Martin Scorcese’s The Departed, a remake of the original Infernal Affairs, there has been a renewed interest in the Hong Kong trilogy of films that...

• October 25, 2006
• At Home, Drama, Television

Based on Alan Hollinghurst’s Booker Prize-winning novel, The Line of Beauty shows Margaret Thatcher’s 80s-England through the eyes of a wide-eyed young gay man. Nick Guest (pretty Dan Stevens...

• October 21, 2006
• At Home, Drama

I can only think that Philip Seymour Hoffman must have had a blast playing Truman Capote. In fact, had this movie come out when I was younger, I would...