Movie review of the 2011 film Hanna starring Saoirse Ronan, Eric Bana, and Cate Blanchett.
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2011
This review of the “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1” Blu-ray/DVD combo pack appears on KTKA-49. Out this week in a feature-filled DVD/Blu-ray combo pack is “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1,” or the beginning of the end. The quality of the “Harry Potter” movie adaptations has varied wildly over the […]
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It’s been 11 years since Wes Craven made a “Scream” movie, and in “Scream 4,” he pokes more fun at horror conventions, updating the jabs to include the “Saw” series, among other things. Sidney Prescott (played by Neve Campbell) returns home on the 15th anniversary of the killings in the first film, but—like “Saw”—the “Stab” series of movies based on her story is on its seventh film.
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Here’s my review of “Your Highness” from KTKA-49. It’s difficult to explain the level of disappointment I felt after watching “Your Highness,” a lazy medieval comedy starring Danny McBride, James Franco and Natalie Portman. In an interview from last year, director David Gordon Green said: “I haven’t pulled the script out in more than four […]
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Win Win is writer/director Thomas McCarthy‘s weakest effort. Now that might sound bad, but only until you realize the man has put together a pretty impressive resume so far. McCarthy both wrote and directed The Visitor and The Station Agent, as well as penning the original story Pixar’s Up was based on. That’s a pretty […]
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Based on the experiences of Bethany Hamilton (played here by AnnaSophia Robb), Soul Surfer tells the story of a young girl who lost her arm to a shark attack, which threatened to end a promising amateur surfing career. The main focus of the film is Bethany’s struggle — and that of her family and friends […]
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Joe Wright, director of the highly acclaimed “Atonement,” jumps aboard the girls-kicking-ass train with his most recent offering, “Hanna.” Wright taps into the same well-mined landscape of such films as “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” trilogy, the “Bourne” offerings, even a touch of “Let the Right One In,” but where as those films often […]
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From the Department of Useless Remakes comes Warner’s re-imagining of the Dudley Moore comedy Arthur. I haven’t seen that original, but having watched every episode of The Critic, I get the idea that remaking Dudley Moore’s original without Dudley Moore would be like if Warners followed through on their threats and made a “Buffy the […]
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While the 2011 South by Southwest Film Festival ended nearly three weeks ago, Scene Stealers has just finished wrapping up its coverage. In total, contributor George Hickman saw and reviewed 24 films. Below are links to and brief snippets of each of those reviews. Overall, his three favorites of the festival were “Attack the Block,” […]
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SXSW 2011 Reviews of Natural Selection and Five Time Champion
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SXSW 2011 Reviews of Bellflower and The Future.
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SXSW 2011 Reviews of Kill List and The FP
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SXSW 2011 Movie Reviews of The Divide and Our Day Will Come.
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“The Lincoln Lawyer” starring Matthew McConaughey, reviewed by Eric Melin with clips from the movie.
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Movie review of Zack Snyder’s “Sucker Punch
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