Category: cinema reviews
Greetings, programs! As we’re steeling ourselves for a summer of mind-bending blockbusters that will take us from Ohio to Oa, I took one last visit to The Grid with several hundred attendees at a viewing…
Thor continues the string of connected MARVEL comics films that began with Iron Man. Although different in tone, it soars to similar heights thanks to director Kenneth Branagh and the cast. The film deals with some…
Well, Christopher Nolan’s film has received it’s Oscar nod, and yet I have a feeling the Academy will wind up giving our “Best Picture” to something overinflated, overwrought, and overadulated like Black Swan. While I’m…
Sam Flynn misses his daddy. Sure, the 27-year old boy plays it cool in the opening of TRON: Legacy, chills out in a swanky bachelor pad I confessedly covet (but he drinks Coors, so we…
“Your father was the creator.” – Quorra, from Tron: Legacy Jeff Bridges doesn’t play a divine trinity in Tron Legacy, but he does present a curious trifecta of world creator, absent father, and slightly Lebowski-channeling…
What were YOU expecting from TRON: Legacy? A cursory viewing of this sequel’s 1982 film predecessor, sporting half-baked yet fun ideas stretched across a kaleidoscope of imagery and loosely scrambled religious plot-points (with cameo by…
A special son raised in a Christmas paradise is sent south to a much harsher world where he sees the darkness in the world and overcomes it with a light in his eyes that refuses…
In 1982, TRON was passed over for an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects because the Academy felt the movie “cheated” by using a computer (seven years later, The Abyss would win for it’s computer…
“It was as if the plan had been with him all his life…” – Karen Pomeroy, Donnie Darko Spoilers Ahead: for the first part of the Donnie Darko review, click here. By the end of this spectacularly…
“28 days… 6 hours… 42 minutes… 12 seconds. That is when the world will end.” – Donnie Darko Writer/Director Richard Kelly uses various techniques to capture not only the spirit of the late 80s, but…
What do filmmaker Christopher Nolan and Puritan Preacher Jonathan Edwards have in common? I know we’ve been hammering on Inception for what seems like a lifetime (or we might be dreaming within a dream, and…
“True inspiration is impossible to fake.” In Christopher Nolan’s incredible Inception, the notion is posited that planting an idea may not be possible because the mind will recognize it’s “inception” as foreign. One might easily…