Movie Review

Sucker Punch Zack Snyder, the director of the misbegotten film, “Sucker Punch,” often gets tagged with the label “visionary.” I happen to think this is incorrect.  A visionary – in my book, anyway – is someone who has a tremendous ability to imagine lives and...

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Unknown Is the world ready for yet another movie that features amnesia as it’s major plot device? This tired old formula gets a slick makeover in director Jaume Collet-Serra’s “Unknown,” which stars Liam Neeson as a man who loses his memory after a horrific car...

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Another Year Since these reviews appear in The Networker, a website that has an audience of mostly actors, I feel it necessary sometimes not only to review films that are current blockbusters, but to turn you on to works that might actually illuminate and teach us...

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True Grit The Coen Brothers have long been known for tackling different genres and providing their own unique spin on them, so it comes as no surprise that one day they would get around to the most American of movie genres – the Western. That they chose to remake one...

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Burlesque Considering that I own (and quite proudly, I might add) a deluxe, special edition DVD box set of Paul Verhoeven’s jaw-droppingly awful masterpiece, “Showgirls,” it stands to reason that I would be the target audience for “Burlesque,” starring the one-two...

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Hereafter Look, I’m as amazed and admiring of the fact that Clint Eastwood is still making movies at age 80. It’s quite an achievement. And not just small movies, but big films with sweeping subjects and serious themes. But let’s face it, even a master can make a...