The American opens with George Clooney staring into a fireplace as he sits on the floor of a remote cabin in a Swedish snow-covered mountainside. The naked woman lying on a bed with her arms around his neck paints ... more
There’s money to be made in them thar exorcism hills, and Rev. Cotton Marcus (Patrick Fabian), he of the 1000-watt Pepsodent smile, can (and will) tell us all about it in The Last Exorcism. Handsome, successful and phony as ... more
Filmmaker Samuel Maoz was 20 when he climbed into an Israeli tank and killed a man for the first time. That was in June 1982, the first Lebanon war had just broken out and Maoz was assigned to a ... more
Move over Ma Barker; there’s a new mastermind crime mama in town. That would be the doting and crime plotting grandmother, Janine “Smurf” Cody (Jacki Weaver) in the Melbourne underworld crime world that’s exposed in Animal Kingdom.
I’m really on the fence about The Switch. I think there are two movies inside this romantic comedy. There’s one plot I dislike for being cliché, boring, ridiculous and helping to spur even more tabloid stories about poor Jennifer ... more
Nanny McPhee is back and just as magical as Nanny McPhee was five years ago. In Nanny McPhee Returns, set in the English countryside and London, statues come alive, elephants sleep in beds, and pigs fly. Mrs. Isabel Green ... more