On Broadway

I was invited to attend a special screening of On Broadway,  an independent film shot entirely against the backdrop of Boston. This movie featured a little more fanfare than your typical independent production due to the impressive list of luminairies appearing in the movie – Mike O’Malley, Joey McIntyre, Amy Poehler, Will Arnett, and Eliza Dushku.
The [...]

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No Country for Old Men

Admittedly, it’s hard to offer up a review of No Country for Old Men without dishing out spoilers, but here goes…
One of things I hate about seing movies that are ripe with so much fanfare is that I tend to go into the theater with such elevated expectations, and typically they never live up to the hype [...]

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EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH — A bit underwhelming

When watching Employee of the Month (starring Dane Cook, Jessica Simpson, and Dax Shepard), I knew that this would be a hit or miss proposition… but I guess I was hoping to catch lightning in a bottle by way of a funny movie with a bunch of laughs, good actors, and perhaps some zany character development.
The [...]

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Thank God for JUNO

Every now and then, a movie comes along that not only scrapes a tickle brush against our emotional senses, but hits at the nerve of some sort of social nirvana. And make no mistake –  these movies come in mysterious packages, usually with unforeseen fanfare and predictability.
Enter Juno.
I had first heard about Juno about a year ago when [...]

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THE KINGDOM falls short

The premise of The Kingdom sounded like a home run.  In a post-911 era, a group of renegade FBI agents with a conscience are deployed to Saudi Arabia to investigate the the murder of helpless Americans in a western base.  Add to this mix the great actors Chris Cooper and Jamie Foxx, you would think [...]

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Who Knew?? Clerks II not bad!

Okay, stop me if you’ve heard this before — you’re surfing channels late at night and stumble upon that silly movie that catches your attention just long enough to keep you watching…  and watching…. and watching.
Sound familiar?   Of course it does, because it happens to all of us. 
This is what happened when I came across [...]

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When Stand Up Stood Out

Stumbled upon a nice gem today when surfing through my cable channels.  And… when I spotted the name of the movie “When Stand Up Stood Out” I figured this would probably be one of those documentary types about the birth of some comedy scene somewhere in the US. 
But… after watching the intro, I was [...]

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The Ringer – surprisingly good

While thumbing through the some movies playing on cable recently, I noticed The Ringer was playing on HBO. I figured I would put it on and use it as background filler while I worked on some other things. However, much to my surprise, I got sucked in and watched the entire movie (and credits, for which [...]

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The Bourne Ultimatum

“You really don’t remember, do you?”
These very words have created the foundation for the Bourne trilogy — the premise of Jason Bourne not being able to recall his past… and as a result taking us on a dangerous joyride across the world as he mows down his enemy assasins one-by-one while trying to uncover the truth about his [...]

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The Prestige

I knew that when I rented The Prestige I would be in for a great acting performance from Christian Bale as well as Michael Caine. Little did I know how impressed I would be with Hugh Jackman and, yes, even Scarlett Johansson. Take into account also the fact that this is a Christopher Nolan directed movie, and if it were [...]

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