Reviews

Bad Boys is a comedy team film with Will Smith as the straight guy and Martin Lawrence as the comic.  The team almost reminds us of Abbott and Costello or even George and Gracie Allen, these guys are a comic team and cops in Miami.  The banter and comic intersessions at the heart of the […]

Terrence Malick works persuasively from real life accounts of Franz Jagerstater in his latest ruminative drama, arguably his most involving since The Tree of Life. A Hidden Life is basically a two handler featuring August Diehl (Inglourious Basterds) and Valerie Pachner as Austrian peasant farmer Franz and beloved missus Franziska.  It has a political slant […]

An unhurried death row drama doesn’t have the emotional power of a Dead Man Walking but is often involving and intelligent in how it unfolds as a character study. Even if naysayers will poke into its redundant and overwrought tendencies. The estimable Alfre Woodard stars in Clemency which has a grim, if affecting realism about it, […]

The continuation of a horror franchise hardly does justice to Takeshi Shimizu’s original concept which began at the beginning of the millennium (which was remade by him to much financial success back in 2004 staring Sara Michelle Gellar). This reboot or reawakening (if you prefer) of The Grudge provides an invitation to a haunting, Psychological […]