Runtime: 1 hour, 40 minutes Rating: R Directors: Park Chan-wook Quick Impressions: I would have called this movie Beautiful People Are Creepy, Huh? I’ll guarantee you that no one would watch the first half hour if the Stoker family weren’t blessed with beautiful faces and a gorgeous home. When nothing …
Runtime: 1 hour, 31minutes Rating: PG Directors: Kirk De Micco, Chris Sanders Quick Impressions: I spent the last forty-five minutes of this movie with tears streaming down my cheeks, thinking, “My poor Dad! I’ve got to remember to tell him how much I love him!” Then as the credits rolled, …
Runtime: 1 hour, 36 minutes Rating: R Directors: Brad Anderson Quick Impressions: If you were idly flipping through cable channels and happened to catch The Call already in progress, you would never be able to stop watching it. Sure, maybe at some point early on, you’d intend to change the …
Runtime: 2 hours, 10 minutes Rating: PG Directors: Sam Raimi Quick Impressions: The first forty minutes or so of this movie really failed to impress me. Quite honestly, I watched and thought in surprise, “Wow! Jack the Giant Slayer was actually a lot better.” James Franco definitely did not seem …
Runtime: 1 hour, 53 minutes Rating: PG-13 Directors: Bryan Singer Quick Impressions: A few days ago, I saw a string of articles online in quick succession about how Jack the Giant Slayer was expected to have a soft opening and lose a lot of money and be a big disappointment …
Runtime: 1 hour, 35 minutesRating: PG-13Directors: Scott Stewart Quick Impressions:For the past couple of months, whenever a Dark Skies trailer has come on during movie theater previews, I’ve squinched my eyes shut and kept them closed through its duration. I mean, except the first time, obviously. I stopped looking because …
Runtime: 1 hour, 38 minutes Rating: R Director: John Moore Quick Impressions: Now that I’ve seen the fifth installment in the Die Hard series, I can’t wait for the next one. In fact, I have a great idea for the title—Die Hard 5. (My original idea was Die Hard 6: …
Amour Nominated Producer(s): Margaret Ménégoz, Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka, Michael KatzDirector: Michael HanekeWriter: Michael HanekeCast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, and Isabelle Huppert Plot: Retired music teachers, octogenarians Georges and Anne live quietly and happily in their apartment until Anne suddenly experiences the onset of small strokes because of a blockage that …
Runtime: 1 hr, 45 minutes Rating: R Directors: Steven Soderbergh Quick Impressions: The parasomnias fascinate me. My sister sleepwalks. Growing up, we shared a bathroom, so her sleepwalking made getting ready in the morning extra exciting. In times of high stress, she would regularly sleepwalk into the bathroom, unscrew the …
Jessica Chastain Age: 35 Film: Zero Dark Thirty Role: Maya, the driven CIA operative who after being recruited out of high school spends the better part of a decade (and her entire professional life) actively searching for Osama bin Laden until she finally finds him and convinces her superiors to …
