"Les Miserables"
Directed by Tom Hooper
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway
Grade: D-
During the climax of "Les Miserables," directed with stunning ineptitude by Tom Hooper, characters...
"Titanic" (1997)
Directed by James Cameron
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Gloria Stuart
Grade: A
In crafting his 1997 blockbuster masterpiece "Titanic," writer-director James...
Note: I don't watch everything. This year in particular, I've fallen behind on a number of shows I like. Of what I did watch, here's what I most enjoyed:
10. Chuck (NBC)
The little spy comedy that could,...
http://www.hulu.com/watch/408884
I've only seen one episode of "Nashville," embedded above, but I wanted to offer a few first impressions, as I did with the comedy pilots last month. Set in the eponymous...
As I read the opening pages of J.K. Rowling's "The Casual Vacancy," I felt the onset of an all-too-rare pleasure: the joy of being placed in the hands of a trusted storyteller, an artist with a proven...
Reviewing television pilots is a tricky practice--how much weight should be placed on a single television episode that may or may not be representative of the series that follows? Some shows start...
Writer-director David Koepp's latest film, "Premium Rush," has been advertised with the tagline "Ride Like Hell." This is, perhaps, to its detriment--I'm not sure high-speed bicycling constitutes...
I doubt I'm alone in feeling that this summer was rather unremarkable in terms of the films released.
The sole box office knockout was Joss Whedon's "The Avengers," having grossed over $600 million...
You'll soon learn that registration at Trinity represents a rather (melo)dramatic phase of each semester. Complaints of "ruined" schedules and early classes fill the air, as does a shared resentment...
The 2007 announcement that Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson were to collaborate on an animated film called "The Adventures of Tintin" seemed to be met with little more than a "Huh?" among most...
The phrase "psychological thriller" has long been overused, particularly in reference to film. Somewhere down the line, "psychological" became a synonym for "good" and/or "interesting." "Take Shelter,"...
"Martha Marcy May Marlene," a haunting drama from writer- director Sean Durkin, is not an easy film to swallow. Indeed, the crowd at a screening I attended was quite vocal about its disdain for the movie....
