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…

Resident Evil: Afterlife 

After meeting Claire (Ali Larter), who suffers from amnesia, in Alaska, Alice (Milla Jovovich) takes her on a small plane and flies to Los Angeles where they meet a group…

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,…

Breaking Dawn – Part 2

After having been rescued by Edward (Robert Pattinson), Bella (Kristen Stewart) is trying to get used to her new life as a mother and a vampire, but her family is…

Skyfall: Mommie Dearest

Daniel Craig. Photo: Sony Pictures Releasing It was at a party thrown by Hugh Jackman in 2010 that Daniel Craig ran into Sam Mendes after downing a few cocktails. Mendes…

The Haunting: That Damned House

Julie Harris. Photo: MGM Shirley Jackson's novel, on which this classic film was based, is often described as one of the finest horror stories of the twentieth century. Martin Scorsese…

Room 237 

In nine chapters, this documentary offers a chance for five Stanley Kubrick enthusiasts to present more or less imaginative interpretations of his classic horror movie The Shining (1980). Is it…