Category: Reviews

Overall Impression – An extremely simple story that makes an incredibly complex film.  The best movie I’ve seen this year. THE FOUR QUESTIONS Who’s your main character? – 9-year-old,  slightly autistic Oskar Schell. What’s he trying to accomplish? – Professional: Find the lock that fits the key he believes his father left for him. Personal:… Continue reading EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE

Overall Impression – Subtle and beautiful.  Sneaks up on you like an Hawaiian sunset. THE FOUR QUESTIONS Who’s your main character? – Matt King. What’s he trying to accomplish? – Professional: Manage the sale of his family property. Personal: Hold his family together while his wife is in a coma.  Private: Come to terms with… Continue reading THE DESCENDANTS

Overall Impression – A boy, a soldier, two soldiers, a girl, another soldier, another soldier, and finally back to a boy and his horse. THE FOUR QUESTIONS Who’s your main character? – Joey, the horse. What’s he trying to accomplish? – Professional: Be the best darn horse ever. Personal: Stay alive.  Private: Get back to… Continue reading WAR HORSE

Overall Impression – Perfunctory storytelling meets lack of charisma. THE FOUR QUESTIONS Who’s your main character? – Erik Lehnsherr (Magneto). What’s he trying to accomplish? – Professional: Kill Sebastian Shaw. Personal: Work with Charles Xavier to find and recruit fellow mutants.  Private: Create the family he was deprived of as a child. Who’s trying to… Continue reading X-MEN: FIRST CLASS

Overall Impression – Visually exhausting and dramatically repetitive. THE FOUR QUESTIONS Who’s your main character? – Scott Pilgrim. What’s he trying to accomplish? – Professional: Defeat his new girlfriend’s seven evil ex’s. Personal: Learn how to be a good friend to his band mates and the girls who like him.  Private: Learn the true meaning… Continue reading SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD