The year is 1900 and a magician is enchanting Vienna. His name is Eisenheim (Edward Norton) and his tricks are like those of no other illusionist before him. His act attracts the attention of Crown Prince Leopold (Rufus Sewel), who attends a performance with his fiancee, Sophie (Jessica Biel). LeopoldContinue Reading
Before watching the latest installment of the Harry Potter series, I looked over my reviews of the previous four movies and noted that I said they all have been of a consistently high quality. About an hour into Harry Potter & The Order of the Phoenix, I was worried thatContinue Reading
Jesus Camp is the single scariest movie I’ve ever seen. It also works as hilarious comedy. The problem is that it’s a documentary and its subject is the brainwashing of children — and there’s no other way to put it — by Evangelical ministries to turn them into Christian warriors whoContinue Reading
Giant monster movies — especially those made in Japan during the 1960s — are usually viewed as campy, kitschy, or children’s entertainment. How seriously can a viewer take a movie that’s essentially comprised of a man in a rubber suit destroying a model of Tokyo as toy planes and tanksContinue Reading
Director David Cronenberg has been consistent at one thing in his career: being wildly inconsistent. He’s made films that I’ve loved, like The Fly and The Dead Zone, and films that I’ve hated, like Naked Lunch and eXistenZ. So it was with some trepidation that I viewed 2005’s A HistoryContinue Reading
What an incredibly consistent film series the Harry Potter films are! Four films into a run of seven movies and it has yet to stumble at all. While I’m sure this can be credited to the strength of the novels by J. K. Rowling, each individual movie has had toContinue Reading
Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio) is the descendant of a long line of thugs and criminals. Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon) grew up under the tutelage of crime boss Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson). For completely different reasons, each of the youths decide to join the Massachusetts State Police. Upon graduation from theContinue Reading