I need to trust my intuition. I had seen the trailer for this movie several times and it always looked like a piece of mindless garbage, a bit of very low budget stream-of-consciousness acting by […]
Author: Bob Gibbons
review – ‘fast and furious 6’
If you’re not a ‘car guy’ – and I’m definitely not a ‘car guy’ – this is a really long and very repetitious movie. But it’s not a disappointing one because what you get is […]
review – ‘francis ha’
The whole movie is one long conversation between, about, among and around two best friends, Frances (Gerwig) and Sophie (Sumner) who are, in the words of Frances herself, “…like an old married couple. We talk […]
review – ‘star trek: into darkness’
JJ Abrams has made a terrific movie. Despite the fact that I’ve seen all the ‘Star Trek’ movies, but seem unable to remember the plots of any of them…I loved this one. Maybe it’s because, […]
review – ‘pain and gain’
In the Movie Bible according to Michael Bay, this movie’s director, the first – maybe only – commandment is this: Thou shalt do everything to excess or thou shalt not bother doing it at all. […]
review – ‘mud’
“Mud” is a tale of elemental things — falling in love, and putting your faith in others, and spending summer days with your best friend when you’re fourteen years old. It moves slowly, carefully, laying […]
review – ‘ginger and rosa’
“I don’t want to die,” Ginger (Elle Fanning) says at one point in this quietly-insightful film. “I want to grow up and do things.” What Fanning is “growing up” to do here is to deliver […]
review – ‘the call’
The sound you hear is my heart still pounding in my chest. This is what a tight script, taut direction, tension-building editing, and a two-thirds-terrific – and sometimes terrifying – movie looks like. There is […]
review – ‘oz the great and powerful’
How good could a movie be if five different men received at least partial credit as directors – and nineteen writers contributed to the screenplay? And, what if the most evil and imposing character in […]
review – ‘identity thief’
Director Seth Gordon’s last movie was the very funny ‘Horrible Bosses.’ This one is just horrible. In fact, at what seemed like the five-hour point in this not-quite two-hour film, I seriously thought about leaving […]
review ‘parker’
What a long, boring, predictable, time-wasting piece of nonsense. What is this Parker guy about anyway? He says: “I don’t steal from anyone who can’t afford it and I don’t hurt anyone who doesn’t deserve […]
review – ‘quartet’
There is a sense of reverence, respect, and charm to this movie, a feeling that age and accomplishments should be remembered and celebrated. In this, his directorial debut, Dustin Hoffman has gathered a number […]
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