Get Out of My Dreams: A Movie Review of “Inception”
There is an entire industry built around the attempt to understand dreams, an industry that would be bigger and more mainstream if such a thing were actually possible. The truth is you can keep any number of interpretive books on your nightstand and notepads and pens handy to write thoughts down with and still never [...]
Lost Reel Review: Triplets of Belleville
In search of movie rentals that don’t suck? You may have missed Triplets of Belleville when it was released, even though it narrowly missed an Oscar. Drop it onto the “to watch” list ASAP.
Winter’s Bone: A Review
Allen Vaughan reviews Winter’s Bone, the Sundance-winning film shot entirely in the Ozarks with local cast and crew. His thoughts? Great movie, mediocre story.
To Err Is Human: A Movie Review of “Avatar 3-D”
James Cameron spared no time or expense to place a giant, two-hour-and-forty-minute, $200-to-$500-Million “L” on humanity’s forehead with his live action/CGI sci-fi epic Avatar, the story of man’s attempt to connect with a tribal alien race in order to exploit its land for profit. Thanks, Jim. At least this bitter pill comes in the form [...]
The Beast In Me: A Movie Review of “The Road”
Psychologists would probably have a field day with Cormac McCarthy. The author’s two most recent novels, The Road and No Country for Old Men, share two things in common. First, now that The Road has been released starring Viggo Mortensen (who is making a dark-horse bid for inclusion in the “great actors of our time” [...]
