http://www.grouchoreviews.com/ Sat, 15 Jun 2013 19:51:27 GMT Film/DVD reviews, interviews and features. http://www.grouchoreviews.com/reviews/4518 /reviews/4518 On balance, this new cinematic take on a 75-year-old icon constitutes a worthy Superman movie and a modest improvement for a franchise that had creatively stalled. Sat, 15 Jun 2013 01:14:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://www.grouchoreviews.com/reviews/4526 /reviews/4526 The show continues to grow in dimension and in scope, a reality that‘s also meaningful within its fictional universe. Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:25:05 GMT Peter Canavese http://www.grouchoreviews.com/reviews/2317 /reviews/2317 On video, Safety Last! is a certified treat, but in packed movie houses, with audiences invariably gasping and giggling on every cue, it‘s a near-religious experience. Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:33:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://www.grouchoreviews.com/reviews/4514 /reviews/4514 Whedon goes for a kind of radical naturalism, an understated approach that suggests the characters could be your friends and neighbors. Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:41:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://www.grouchoreviews.com/reviews/4525 /reviews/4525 This type of thing has already been diluted by...Funny or Die...The main difference...is that This is The End is profane in the extreme, an R-rated stoner comedy gleefully grafted onto a ‘splatstick‘ horror picture... Wed, 12 Jun 2013 21:18:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://www.grouchoreviews.com/reviews/4524 /reviews/4524 The first major Western in sound...One can occasionally feel the filmmakers showing off the technology, with close-ups of a crying baby or sizzling ham and eggs. Tue, 11 Jun 2013 23:10:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://www.grouchoreviews.com/reviews/4480 /reviews/4480 Oz the Great and Powerful gets saved from the junk heap by Franco and especially by director Sam Raimi, who happily treats the enterprise as a sandbox. Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:48:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://www.grouchoreviews.com/reviews/4521 /reviews/4521 By setting the show in the recent past, Sorkin can productively remind or inform a broad audience of the pith of important news we‘ve lived through...a subplot about [NSA] wiretapping...[even] gets ahead of the curve... Mon, 10 Jun 2013 23:02:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://www.grouchoreviews.com/reviews/4517 /reviews/4517 Once blithely acceptable as American id, McClane‘s become the archetypal American idiot. Sun, 09 Jun 2013 23:32:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://www.grouchoreviews.com/reviews/4520 /reviews/4520 Cannily plays in equal measure to the sci-fi TV crowd and families, to red states and blue states, and it‘s a formula…refined in Season Two…that seems to be working. Sun, 09 Jun 2013 22:11:31 GMT Peter Canavese http://www.grouchoreviews.com/reviews/4519 /reviews/4519 Intrigues not with good guy-bad guy shtick, but with the conundrum of how to live morally in an inherently immoral West. Fri, 07 Jun 2013 06:50:57 GMT Peter Canavese http://www.grouchoreviews.com/reviews/4516 /reviews/4516 Although Vaughn‘s riffing skills remain in fine form, as do Wilson‘s, the story makes every obvious and conventional choice. Fri, 07 Jun 2013 06:40:27 GMT Peter Canavese http://www.grouchoreviews.com/reviews/4509 /reviews/4509 So preposterous in its particulars, so ludicrous in its lowdown, that you‘re liable to kick yourself silly for having bothered to play along. Fri, 31 May 2013 00:58:46 GMT Peter Canavese http://www.grouchoreviews.com/reviews/4508 /reviews/4508 What remains most striking about Philadelphia may be the...conspicuous emphasis on intense close-ups. They force an inescapable emotional intimacy in relation to issues the mainstream, at least at the time, would rather have looked away from. Wed, 29 May 2013 20:19:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://www.grouchoreviews.com/reviews/2909 /reviews/2909 Distinguished by its thoughtfulness regarding the nature of Western heroism, as defined not only by dead-eye gunplay, but by family, community, and moral rectitude. Tue, 28 May 2013 22:47:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://www.grouchoreviews.com/reviews/4505 /reviews/4505 Brims with funny ideas both verbal and visual that are finely tuned by Baumbach and his cast, and sharply edited... Thu, 23 May 2013 16:33:00 GMT Peter Canavese http://www.grouchoreviews.com/reviews/4506 /reviews/4506 Nothing new, but given its solidly built kids‘ adventure, I‘m not going to, y‘know, look down on it. Thu, 23 May 2013 16:26:45 GMT Peter Canavese http://www.grouchoreviews.com/reviews/4507 /reviews/4507 Less like a movie and more like a contractual obligation. Thu, 23 May 2013 16:20:06 GMT Peter Canavese http://www.grouchoreviews.com/reviews/4504 /reviews/4504 The main selling point here…and it‘s a considerable one…is Shannon, who shows new shadings in the role of Kuklinski... Thu, 23 May 2013 13:16:02 GMT Peter Canavese http://www.grouchoreviews.com/reviews/4469 /reviews/4469 The awfulness of the narrative is plain to see, and yet...no one can say Stand Up Guys lacks personality. Thu, 16 May 2013 15:27:00 GMT Peter Canavese