Beasts of the Southern Wild

A huge storm is headed straight toward a Louisiana bayou community… and a five-year-old and her sick dad (Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry). Director Benh Zeitlin's first feature film became a…

Amour: In Sickness and in Health

Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva. Photo: Les Films du Losange Welcome to the ever-fascinating journey of the cinema of Michael Haneke. When I started writing this review I began by…

Texas Chainsaw 3D

Heather Miller (Alexandra Daddario) finds out that not only did she have a grandmother she never heard of, but now she's also inherited her estate in Texas; however, the house…

Airplane: Felled by Fish

Leslie Nielsen and Robert Hays. Photo: Paramount "Our survival hinges on one thing – finding someone who not only can fly this plane, but didn't have fish for dinner." A…

It’s a Wonderful Life: Wing and a Prayer

James Stewart, Donna Reed, Carol Coombs, Jimmy Hawkins, Larry Simms and Karolyn Grimes. Photo: RKO This Christmas I decided to catch Frank Capra's last masterpiece again. Having seen it several…

Argo: The Great Escape

Photo: Warner In my reviews of Persepolis (2007) and A Separation (2011), I wrote that those films offer a well-needed opportunity to understand Iran. Argo, however, is not that type…

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 

Gandalf the wizard (Ian McKellen) convinces a hobbit, Bilbo (Martin Freeman), to join his party of 13 dwarves on a quest to reclaim a treasure that was stolen by a…

Tron Legacy

A few years after the events of the first film, Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) disappears; twenty years later, his son (Garrett Hedlund) is sucked into a virtual reality created by…

Tron 

Software engineer Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) breaks into the headquarters of his former employer, but is sucked into the company's mainframe where he becomes a player in martial games. A…

Sinister

True-crime writer Ellison Oswalt (Ethan Hawke) moves his wife (Juliet Rylance) and children to a rural house to work on his next book… without telling them that the last owners,…