Understand my reasons for allotting 2011's "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" the final score I did. I'd give it a 10/10 for having its heart in the right place; a 6/10 for stretching that heart almo
In 1987, Elisabeth Shue starred in “Adventures in Babysitting,” an action-comedy that followed the trajectory of “The Out-of-Towners” and the tone of “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” “The Sitter,” whi
First, some interesting trivia. Well, at least this stuff is interesting to me, but I'm easy: "The Bodyguard" got generally dismal reviews when Warners released it in 1992 and then went on to take in
By its nature, film is a visually dynamic medium, carrying power to entertain us, be it a drama, documentary, or an action film. There are different components at work; the mix of visual images with s
English director Gerald Thomas made the first of the "Carry On" comedies, "Carry on Sergeant," in 1958 and continued making them through twenty-nine more motion pictures, ending with "Carry On Columbu
I have great gaps in my education and cultural awareness, as if I’ve been oblivious because of constant texting—and I don’t even own a cell phone! I came to **“Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life”**completely c
Ralph Bakshi specializes in low-budget animation—animation that thumbs its nose at Disney and established filmmaking conventions. My wife walked past as I was screening the 35th Anniversary Edition of
"Seven days. " Note: In the following Blu-ray review John Puccio and Yunda Eddie Feng comment on the film, with John also writing up the Video, Audio, Extras, and Parting Thoughts. **The Movie Acc
In an opening voiceover, Matt King (George Clooney)—a successful attorney living on Oahu whose great grandfather married Hawaiian royalty, then inherited a huge chunk of island real estate—says that p
What if the stuff your childhood was built on was more than ideas and fantasy, but instead a fairly important component to your protection from evil and all the devastation it brings with it? Dependin
At 158 minutes, David Fincher’s Americanized version of “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” is six minutes longer than the Swedish version but shorter than the sprawling Swedish TV version. I find that
Some people never grow up. You've heard the phrase often enough, and it's among the primary themes in 2011's dark comedy "Young Adult. " Only it isn't a comedy about delayed adolescence in the sense