After Liam Neeson’s exploits in The Grey, Unknown and Taken, it’s beginning to seem like the actor is carving out a specific ‘winter action movie’ time slot. His latest genre picture, Non-Stop, is a fairly run-of-the-mill effort that falls apart…
Sometimes, it can be difficult to rate a movie. Pompeii is certainly intended to be an exaggerated melodrama. It also clearly wants to be an emotionally moving and exciting one that thrillingly depicts a historical event on an epic scale.…
Based on the highly regarded novel of the same name by Mark Helprin, Winter’s Tale yearns to be a romantic fable for the ages. However, fans of the book are unlikely to be satisfied with this simplified adaptation and those…
A beloved modern sci-fi classic, the original RoboCop hardly seems like an ideal property to remake. The good news is that this effort is superior to other recent reboots (including Total Recall and Carrie). It’s clear that Brazilian filmmaker José…
It’s hard to walk into The Lego Movie and not expect to see a ninety-minute ad for a toy line. Thankfully, writer/directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs) have much more on their minds than…
The Monuments Men is a tribute to a little known unit who performed incredible feats towards the close of World War II. While there can be no doubt that the story behind these real life heroes was indeed dynamic and…
It may have been marketed as a serious drama or at one point even an awards contender, but it’s clear that the new film Labor Day was never intended for Oscar glory. In fact, it marks a complete departure from…
With the Academy Awards only a month away, Landmark Theatres is giving moviegoers the opportunity to check out all of the films nominated in the Animated Short Film category. Normally, it’s difficult to find these little gems, so the program…
Also opening today is The Oscar Nominated Live Action Short Films for 2014. Just as with the animated shorts (featured here), the five nominees are collected in this program. It’s more of a mixed bag, with subject matter veering all…
There have been plenty of adaptations and riffs on Mary Shelley’s classic horror novel, Frankenstein. But if any might cause the author to turn in her grave, this could be the one. Despite its best efforts, I, Frankenstein is a…