Something New Review
A charmingly slight mixed-race romantic comedy, featuring charismatic performances by Sanaa Lathan and Simon Baker but script as thin as the paper it’s printed on.
A charmingly slight mixed-race romantic comedy, featuring charismatic performances by Sanaa Lathan and Simon Baker but script as thin as the paper it’s printed on.
At once a history and a fantasy, Terrence Malick’s masterful rendition of the life of Pocahontas is a visual poem and the finest film of his career.
While it’s somewhat comforting to know that someone is still making horror movies like they did in the late 70s, does it have to be exactly like they did in the late 70s?
Highlighting a diverse mix of subjects, including gay cowboys, corrupt oil and pharmaceutical companies, troubled singers and writers, and politically charged commentaries, this year’s Oscar nominations have arrived.
The 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards included a few surprises. Lost won big, for best ensemble cast in a TV drama, but actors from Ang Lee’s ‘Brokeback Mountain’ didn’t finish on top.
Steven Soderbergh’s bold experiment is noteworthy as much for its delivery as for the film itself.
Director Eugene Jarecki takes a new approach in explaining why America has been in a near perpetual state of war since WWII.
Thoughtful, funny portrait of provocateur Melvin Van Peebles manages to be entertaining while keeping its subject thoroughly at arm’s length.
Albert Brooks, in the part he was born to play, stars as himself in a fish-out-of-water tale that travels halfway around the world but goes nowhere.
Crash Writer-director Paul Haggis weaves an intricate tale of lives that wander perilously close in a racially charged Los Angeles. Munich In response to the assassination of the Israeli Olympics team in Munich in 1972, men are sent out to avenge the murders. Along the way they learn and grow but not in any way […]
| ★★★★★ | Perfection |
| ★★★★☆ | Outstanding |
| ★★★☆★☆ | Excellent |
| ★★★☆☆ | Very good |
| ★★☆★☆☆ | Good |
| ★★☆☆☆ | OK |
| ★☆★☆☆☆ | Pretty Bad |
| ★☆☆☆☆ | Poor |
| ☆★☆☆☆☆ | Blech! |
| No Stars | Fail! |