Family Rated PG
“The mock outrage and dry sarcasm of Seinfeld’s comic persona defines the movie’s hero, a worker bee with a high-pitched, often cracking whine.
Horror Rated R
A feature-length defense of the ugly American abroad, Turistas fearfully imagines what can happen when you let your guard down among strangers in a strange land. Josh Duhamel stars as a paranoid American reluctantly chaperoning his sister on a trip to Brazil. When he isn’t shouting at people in the wrong language, he’s worrying about
Drama Rated R
Inspired by the Music Box’s Stanley Kubrick retrospective last week, here is a Kubrick review from the archives. More to come…
Action/Adventure Rated NR
“…a monster movie with equal parts mourning and mayhem.”
One of the landmark spaghetti Westerns from Italian director Sergio Leone, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly follows the crisscrossing paths of three killers in Civil War-era America. The scam artists and all-around scoundrels are played by Eli Wallach (the ugly), Lee Van Cleef (the bad) and Clint Eastwood (the good, but only by
Drama Rated PG
Despite its quirky, comic charm, The Graduate is, in effect, a tragedy. It’s the story of a man who experiences the disillusionment of adulthood far sooner than he should have to. The youth in question is Benjamin Braddock, indelibly played by a stammering, jittery, 29-year-old Dustin Hoffman. Director Mike Nichols tells us all we need
The Great Escape portrays being a prisoner of war as something of a lark. I’ve seen country clubs dirtier than the POW camp in this picture. The movie seems to take its cue from Elmer Bernstein’s jaunty theme music, a tune that demands to be whistled while you work. As it details the based-on-fact, 250-man
"…defiantly star-less, defiantly deglamorized, defiantly devoid of Hollywood hero worship – and all the more riveting because of it."
Comedy Rated PG
“…a gleefully sinister lump of coal.”
Action/Adventure Rated R
“…hallucinatory cinema.”
