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: …
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 …
Runtime: 1 hour, 38 minutes Rating: PG-13 Directors: Jonathan Levine Quick Impressions: I’ve never liked zombies. Nobody with a brain should date one. They’ll fall apart on you! Okay that was zombie humor. But seriously, zombies do nothing for me. Vampires are seductive. Werewolves are tormented. Ghosts are haunted. Zombies …
Runtime: 2 hours, 7 minutesRating: PG-13 Director: Michael Haneke Quick Impressions: All day long, the Hopkins poem “Spring and Fall: To a Young Child” has been running through my mind (probably because I took a long walk with my daughter who kept pointing out that the trees and stiff reeds …
Runtime: 2 hours, 37 minutes Rating: R Director: Kathryn Bigelow Quick Impressions: I’ve got to say, sitting in a darkened movie theater watching CIA operatives interrogate terrorists while all around me my fellow Americans munch popcorn and slurp drinks is a pretty surreal experience. Even putting aside what Zero Dark Thirty is trying to …
Runtime: 1 hour, 43 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Juan Antonio Bayona Quick Impressions: The tsunami of December 26, 2004, made a profound impression on me. I always associate it with the death of my grandmother. Even though Grandma died at home in bed months earlier, the two events got mixed …
Runtime: 2 hours, 38 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Tom Hooper Quick Impressions: I first saw the musical Les Misérables on the stage in London in the summer of 2000. To be honest, it was a slightly disappointing and, at times, bewildering experience. The show seemed very rushed (as if they were trying …
