Here are the movies I saw in the last 2 weeks. I don’t have energy to write longer reviews right now, so here are the short versions. The Taking of Pelham 123 – This movie gives you what you came for which is Denzel Washington and John Travolta matching wits. I probably won’t watch it [...]

Last week I saw Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox. I read a lot about this one before seeing it… The long feature in the New Yorker on Wes Anderson, the interview with Wes Anderson on NPR’s Fresh Air. I read a ton of reviews on IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes (who’s reviewers gave it a 92% [...]

My wife and I went to check out Where the Wild Things Are this weekend. I was able to see a couple of weeks ago too. The New Yorker had this to say about it: The movie seems to be less about liberation than about futility. I just have to disagree that the movie was [...]

Last Friday I went out to see 2012. I have sure seen a lot of criticism of this movie from my Twitter friends and from professional reviews. The criticism seems to be aimed at the low intelligence of the dialog and the predictability of the action (everything blows up but the heros get away just [...]