Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Gary Oldman is John le Carré's unflappable spy, George Smiley, in this dandy espionage tale.

"...to nestle in with the staid and resolutely unsuave George Smiley (Gary Oldman). A longtime operative in Her Majesty's..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

All's Faire in Love

Christina Ricci stars in this strained romantic comedy set in the world of renaissance festivals.

"...this one like the pox. Better yet, go rent George A. Romero's criminally underrated and terminally underseen cult classic..."

Oct. 28, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Blackthorn

Sam Shepard stars in this film which imagines what might have happened if Butch Cassidy had survived and lived on in Bolivia.

"...the Sundance Kid hadn't died at the end of George Roy Hill's genre-redefining 1969 classic, but instead lived on..."

Oct. 21, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bellflower

Hellaciously original, this low-budget, post-apocalyptic film looks like no other in recent memory.

"...kind of like the Toecutter's retro-futuristic biker gang in George Miller's Mad Max or the Humungus' motley crew in..."

Aug. 12, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Johnny Depp sails the seas once again.

"...cameo as the obese, obdurate, and altogether entertaining King George II of England is a marvel of protracted vowels..."

May 20, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hickenlooper Lobbies for 'Casino Jack'

George Hickenlooper on his Jack Abramoff film

"...George Hickenlooper, the director of Casino Jack (which opens in..."

Jan. 5, 2011 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

The King's Speech

Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, and Helena Bonham Carter act up a royal storm in this movie about King George VI of Great Britain overcoming his speech impediment.

"...York (Firth, brilliantly human), was forced to become King George VI when his brother, King Edward VIII (Pearce), scandalously..."

Dec. 24, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Seven Fun Facts About 7 Walkers

Strange but true…

"...Bill Kreutzmann, the Killer Bees’ Malcolm “Papa Mali” Welbourne, George Porter, Jr. of the Meters, local sideman extraordinaire Matt..."

Nov. 25, 2010 Music Post by Austin Powell

Resident Evil: Afterlife

This 3-D continuation of the video-game-to-movie series sees the virus spread.

"...eternal zombie apocalypse franchise, is considerably more entertaining than George A. Romero's most recent exhumation. As in Survival of..."

Sept. 17, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Crazies

A mysterious pollutant in their water supply is making the residents of a small Iowa town insane in this remake of George Romero's topical horror tale.

"...Cedar and Preston Bailey. The Crazies, a remake of George A. Romero's 1973 film of the same name, taps..."

March 5, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Closer Tackles Trans Issues Uncomfortably

Beau Bridges plays a transwoman on The Closer.

"...episode of TNT's The Closer, playing a transwoman named Georgette. He played one of the detective's former (male) partners..."

Dec. 23, 2009 Qmmunity Post by Lola Houston

Soul Power

The "Rumble in the Jungle" was the main event, but this concert in the Congo was a hell of an undercard.

"...African talent before the epic 1974 Muhammad Ali vs. George Foreman title bout. Soul Power serves as a companion..."

Aug. 21, 2009 Movie Review by Thomas Fawcett

My Bloody Valentine 3D

This horror film is a full-on, old-school, gore-hound heaven – a supersaturated arterial goregasm with zero socially redeeming values for anyone other than first-year med students.

"...correct eyeball trauma? No? Well, this way-above-average remake of George Mihalka's plodding 1981 splatter film has it in spades..."

Jan. 23, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Dukes

Character actor Robert Davi directs and co-stars with Chazz Palmintieri in this movie about a former doo-wop group that tries to recapture its glory days.

"...moving again. He and his brother, and fellow Duke, George (Palminteri) are willing to try anything – working in..."

Nov. 28, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Quarantine

An L.A. apartment building is quarantined in this new horror film, and a news crew's videotape may be the only proof of the strange goings-on.

"...drooly victims. It's also more than a little like George Romero's Diary of the Dead but less self-aware, ironic,..."

Oct. 17, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

This comedy starring Simon Pegg is based on Toby Young's memoir about working at Vanity Fair.

"...than leveling blow, more Billy Crystal at Katz’s than George S. Kaufman at the Algonquin Hotel. Where Young’s book..."

Oct. 10, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Women

This remake of the 1939 George Cukor film isn't particularly fun or funny.

"...– The Women is a remake of the 1939 George Cukor film of the same name – but really..."

Sept. 12, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Children of Huang Shi

This would-be epic tells the story of George Hogg, an English adventurer who saved the lives of Chinese orphans during the Sino-Japanese War of the 1930s and Forties.

"...the sad story of little-known World War II hero George Hogg was going to be told by the man..."

June 27, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Funny Games U.S.

Michael Haneke comes to the U.S. to remake his tortuous German film about psychological terrorism with Naomi Watts and Tim Roth.

"...about what happens to the Farber family. Ann (Watts), George (Roth), and their adolescent son, Georgie (Gearhart), while off..."

March 14, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Film Prof's Drunk, and the Kids Are Not All Right

Zombie auteur George Romero delivers another state of the union

"...George Romero: I woulda used faster cuts! Everything was pretty..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Charlie Wilson's War

Despite a script by Aaron Sorkin, direction by Mike Nichols, and star turns by Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, and Philip Seymour Hoffman, this good-natured geopolitical romp falls flat.

"...operative, and he's a gas to watch.) Based on George Crile's nonfiction book of the same name, Charlie Wilson's..."

Dec. 21, 2007 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Walker

Woody Harrelson stars as a professional escort for political wives in this Paul Schrader movie about sex, murder, scandal, and adultery in Washington, D.C.

"...of revenge and secrecy that has come to define George W. Bush's Washington. Writer/director Schrader makes his less-than-amicable feelings..."

Dec. 21, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Darfur Now

For all the film’s rallying efforts, its meandering structure and absence of a central focal point result in a film about genocide that is, as unbelievable as it sounds, kind of boring.

"...feature film. Additional stories involving Cheadle (sometimes accompanied by George Clooney) and the Californian activist are vaguely inspiring. But..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

The District!

This animated Hungarian feature is equal parts South Park and Magyar-inflected hip-hop, and an altogether smart, urban riff on Romeo and Juliet.

"...current geopolitical figures (Osama bin Laden, Vladimir Putin, and George W. Bush) to Hungary's own prime minister and assorted..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Angel-A

Luc Besson delivers a gorgeous-looking but ill-conceived mash note to the city of Paris that stars a petty crook and an ethereal beauty.

"...who saves him from suicide (the Clarence to Debbouze's George Bailey. Hot dog! Andre, we soon learn, is in..."

July 13, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Ken Loach paints a grim realist portrait that captures the solemnity of an Ireland turning on itself and the tragedy of two brothers spiraling away from each other.

"...against the ruthless Black and Tan soldiers of King George V. At the center of the struggle is Damien’s..."

April 27, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

What Love Is

Writer/director Callahan keeps his characters talking from the first frame to the last – and like all great chatterers their preferred topic is love and all its variations.

"...well-explicated. He, along with his friends Ken, Wayne, and George (Callahan, Daly, and Astin), comes to the rescue of..."

March 23, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

An Unreasonable Man

This documentary is a far cry from the dry polemics one might expect from a survey of Ralph Nader's career as a consumer activist and political candidate.

"...of An Unreasonable Man (the title is taken from George Bernard Shaw) enters into Nader's quixotic bids for the..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Happily N'Ever After

The animated Happily N'Ever After isn't just cynically humorless, it's shoddy-looking to boot.

"...all while Fairy Tale Land's rightful ruler (of sorts), George Carlin's Wizard, is off golfing in Scotland. Seriously. And..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The History Boys

If you like your British movies quick, raunchy, reflective, and bittersweet, then The History Boys, based on the stage play, is for you.

"...collaborated with director Hytner on The Madness of King George, brings to the screen a sharply whimsical exploration into..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

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