Dark Days: A Memoir

Lamb of God frontman details his 31 days in a Czech prison

"...doing the day before 9/11? That's how Lamb of God vocalist Randy Blythe felt when Czech prosecutors pulled him..."

Dec. 11, 2015 Music Feature by Richard Whittaker

Timbuktu

Jihad in Mali goes from comic to horrific in the blink of an eye.

"...the imam asks the unyielding, uncompassionate jihadists, “Where is God in all this?” The chief jihadist chastises a woman..."

March 6, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Taken 3

Liam Neeson's back in action.

"...accepting Mills’ innocence. All the while, Neeson retains his God-given gravitas and trademark ferocity; he’s as comfortable bantering with..."

Jan. 16, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

Exodus: Gods and Kings

Batten down the hatches! The plagues are here!

"...face-full of locusts and will get one watching Exodus: Gods and Kings. Ridley Scott’s grand and goofy take on..."

Dec. 19, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Housecore Horror Preview: Randy Blythe

Lamb of God frontman on his Kafkaesque manslaughter charges

"...When Lamb of God mouthpiece Randy Blythe signed up for the Richmond, Va.,..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

When the Game Stands Tall

It's all teamwork to the impediment of characterization in this sports drama based the 151-game winning streak of high school football coach Bob Ladouceur.

"...guy already pretty definitively nailed the holy trinity of God/family/football (not necessarily in that order), and his name is..."

Aug. 22, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Deliver Us From Evil

A police officer and a priest team battle supernatural forces in this horror thriller from the director of Sinister.

"...obsession with this rarely performed religious practice ever wane? God only knows...."

July 11, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Visitors

The Koyaanisqatsi director is back with his latest stream-of-vision meditation.

"...Directed by: Godfrey Reggio...."

Feb. 14, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2014: Live Action

Short films come in nice packages.

"...prisoner (Tom Hollander) who believes himself to be a god. A cagey comic short featuring another utterly believable turn..."

Feb. 7, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

August: Osage County

Plates are broken and egos are trampled on in this wonderful ensemble rendition of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play.

"...– is the endgame in August: Osage County. “Thank God we can’t tell the future,” observes Barbara at one..."

Jan. 10, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Carrie

Sin never dies.

"...(Moore), a religious fanatic who accepts the baby as God’s curse. The major update in Peirce’s version is the..."

Oct. 25, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

We Are What We Are

This effectively creepy horror story gives new meaning to the family film.

"...Jack (Gore), that it's up to them to "continue God's will." But whose, exactly, is that will, and what..."

Oct. 11, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Place Beyond the Pines

A melodrama, multigenerational epic, heist film, and motorcycle-fetish movie are all rolled into one in this Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper headliner.

"...into one. Arguably, it’s a bit overambitious, but good God, look at Gosling! He doesn’t sing. He doesn’t need..."

April 12, 2013 Movie Review by Leah Churner

Liberal Arts

When a Manhattanite returns for a visit to his old liberal arts college, he falls hard for a student 15 years his junior.

"...the head just for trying so hard. But, my god, how it rankles. Love of literature – and the..."

Sept. 28, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Casa de mi Padre

Will Ferrell commits 100% to this goofy, all-Spanish-language soap opera-cum-horse opera.

"...set décor and the matter-of-fact line deliveries. And Ferrell, god bless him, is a natural-born fool; he cannot help..."

March 16, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Carnage

Roman Polanski directs this chamber piece about the demise of social decorum that's adapted from the play God of Carnage.

"...Reza and director Roman Polanski from Reza's hit play God of Carnage, that essential confinement and airlessness is temperamentally..."

Jan. 13, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Tarsem's Divine Designs

Immortals star Daniel Sharman brings the hammer down

"...that canvas. But Daniel Sharman, who plays hammer-slamming war god Ares, says there is still room for the actor...."

Nov. 11, 2011 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Tree

Charlotte Gainsbourg stars in this uneven and overly metaphorical Australian drama that is nevertheless strange and moving.

"...progress, it becomes clear that only an act of God or a heavy-duty chain saw can impede this tree’s..."

Sept. 30, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Making Mjolnir Out of a WiiMote

Local game developers Red Fly talk 'Thor'

"...press for their tie-in game for the Wii, Thor: God of Thunder...."

May 11, 2011 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Soul Surfer

It's the true story of surfing sensation Bethany Hamilton, who lost an arm to a shark at the age of 13.

"...most intriguing faith-based questions (i.e., "How could a loving God allow a shark to bite off the arm of..."

April 8, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2011: Live Action

Amaze your friends and colleagues when you know everything about all the nominees in this category.

"...dramatizing the terrifying absurdities of war. The final nominee, “God of Love,” swings the pendulum wide to the absurdities..."

Feb. 11, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Ip Man 2: Legend of the Grandmaster

This sequel is a model of the martial arts movie form.

"...is cool, calm, and noble in intent and execution. God save the Queen? Not bloody likely...."

Jan. 28, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen

This biopic tells the life story of Hildegard von Bingen, the 12th-century Benedictine nun, who was a woman of many talents and mystical visions.

"...(Held), and instructs her self-flagellation-prone sisters and brethren that “God wants mercy, not sacrifice.” Another time, she condemns the..."

Dec. 10, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bullet With Butterfly Wings

Billy Corgan on the Smashing Pumpkins, the Source Family, and Sky Saxon

"...I think my family enlightened him to the name God Yahowha."..."

Sept. 17, 2010 Music Post by Austin Powell

Vampires Suck

From the filmmaking team that gave us Disaster Movie and Meet the Spartans comes this inevitable spoof of teen vampire movies.

"...of the extremely loose collection of repetitive sight gags, god-awful puns, and soul-crushingly lame kinda/sorta impersonations of everyone from..."

Aug. 27, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

This Week's Waste of Time

We get nostalgic for handheld LCD video games

"...Having stumbled upon a browser version of God of War that plays like an LCD handheld game..."

May 20, 2010 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Clash of the Titans

A messy assemblage of mythic odds and ends, Clash of the Titans takes a nosedive off Mount Olympus.

"...Hamlin, woefully miscast as the hero, Perseus, a half-human demigod son of Zeus who must battle the gods to..."

April 2, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Serious Man

The Coen brothers deliver one of their best and most personal movies, a kind of cockeyed Jewish fable that urges us to embrace life's mysteries.

"...are some of the things that serious men learn. God owes us bubkes in the way of answers. With..."

Oct. 16, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Year One

Jack Black and Michael Cera are comic wanderers through the biblical era.

"...Azaria, Juno Temple and Vinnie Jones. Slayer was right: God hates us all. How else to explain this blasphemously..."

June 26, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Che: Part One

Steven Soderbergh’s filmmaking legacy is his aesthetic daring, and his latest – as massive and imperfect as it is – just might be his most daring work to date.

"...adventures in Cuba in the mid-1950s of the Argentine doctor-turned-revolutionary-turned-martyr-turned-god-turned-hipster-icon, when he and Fidel Castro led a ragtag guerrilla..."

Jan. 23, 2009 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

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