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This isn’t a real review–I’m just writing to bring a movie to your attention: Burning Palms. I previewed this movie–a collection of five stories–over the weekend, and it was good. Really good. Here’s my caveat, though: It is dark. Very black humor. The themes may be disturbing to some, including rape and [...]

How Do You Know was a real disappointment. You’d think that a cast that included Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd, Owen Wilson, and Jack Nicholson, could pull off a decent Rom Com, but alas, this was a poorly scripted effort, the plotline was not well-developed, and the only actor who even began to inhabit his role [...]

Get Low won the hearts of many film critics, and I found it to be definitely worth the view as well. It’s an actors’ showcase: you have your Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, and Bill Murray. All are veterans, and I watched the movie to see them, if nothing else.

I really did enjoy spending 98 minutes watching You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger. We see Woody Allen here doing what he does best: using his satiric lens to depict the most human emotions and experiences. His humor is unmistakable, and if you’re a fan, you’ll probably like the film enough to [...]

Conviction was a very “serviceable” drama based on a true story. Hilary Swank stars as Betty Anne Waters, a working mom who decides to put herself through law school so she can defend her brother, Kenny (Sam Rockwell), whom she believes to be wrongfully convicted of a grisly murder.

There’s not that much to say about The Town, except it was good. Really good. The Town is Ben Affleck’s baby—he adapted the screenplay, he directed it, and he starred in it. It’s hard to believe that the goofy, half drunk kid I saw on Inside the Actor’s Studio nearly ten years ago, could have [...]

Cyrus got a lot of positive press, and a good number of critics liked it. It has all the ingredients for getting a big thumbs up from me, too, but it just didn’t go down so easily. The directors, brothers Mark Duplass and Jay Duplass, also gave us The Puffy Chair, which was a staff [...]

Going the Distance was just an okay romantic comedy. I didn’t love it by any means. I didn’t feel any great chemistry between the stars, Drew Barrymore and Justin Long, even though they have been an on-again, off-again couple for a while. I really liked Drew in He’s Just Not That Into You (a much [...]

Eat Pray Love was okay. It seems like it could have been a lot better, somehow. Perhaps if the main character, Liz, had been played by someone else. Perhaps if the movie had gotten direction from someone other than Ryan Murphy. Something just fell a little flat in the cinematic retelling of the [...]

I can’t say enough bad stuff about I’m Still Here. 50% of the critics totally agree with me, and 50% “got it” in a way I didn’t, and thought it was artful or ingenious, or something good.