Movie Review

By Gary Dowell The art house equivalent of a Girls Gone Wild video, bad-boy auteur Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers offers a mock-morality tale disguised edgy nihilism, but only after he hobbles it with an anemic […]

By Gary Dowell There is a lot of smoke and mirrors and sleight of hand involved with The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, Don Scardino’s comedy about the rise, fall, and re-invention of a vain and supercilious […]

By Gary Dowell Jack the Giant-Slayer: A re-telling of the classic fairy tale starring Nicholas Hoult (Warm Bodies) in the titular role, this has been a long-time passion project for director Bryan Singer. The trailers […]

By Gary Dowell Director Sam Raimi’s trademark kitsch is sadly reined in for the choppy but diverting prequel Oz the Great and Powerful, and for the most part so is the heavy-handed eye candy that […]

By Gary Dowell At first blush, Jack the Giant Slayer would appear to be nothing more but the latest in what’s becoming a long and lackluster line of hipster re-imaginings of classic fairy tales; in […]

By Gary Dowell Despite what the commercials would have you believe, Dwayne Johnson’s crime drama Snitch is not an action extravaganza; rather, Johnson, director Ric Roman Waugh (Felon), and co-screenwriter Justin Haythe (Revolutionary Road, The […]

By Gary Dowell So far, the first few weeks of 2013 have characterized it as the year aging action heroes have been dusted and wheeled out for their umpteenth go at creative mayhem. So far, […]

By Gary Dowell A fun and funny twist on the romantic comedy, Jonathan Levine’s (50/50) adaptation of Isaac Marion’s novel of love in the time of the zombie apocalypse makes more an unlikely but effective […]