Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is one of the most exciting and engrossing films of the summer. It's suspenseful, funny, and even heartfelt. This mar...
After an impatient eighteen months, the latest installment of the wildly popular Harry Potter films has finally made it onto the silver screen. Harry Potter...
Brüno is an hilarious adventure that provides stomachache inducing laughs. Sacha Baron Cohen delivered an excellent shocking original film with Borat, but d...
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs is about as luke warm and formulaic as successful family film can be served. With the tone of a 94 minute Saturday morning cartoon you can’t expect a lot. Watching a movie like Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs in the age of Pixar makes me ask myself - What’s the point? It has little heart and moves at a pace that dangerously flirts with losing your attention, but I’m definitely not the target audience for movies like this. While modern family entertainment has proved it can be relevant for children and adults alike -- Do I even need to say Pixar again? -- the target audience for the Ice Age series is definitely below the 5th grade reading level. The franchise is in danger of becoming as relevant as the Land Before Time series. Remember that? I believe we’re on Land Before Time XIII now. Bottom line is will your kids enjoy it? The answer is yes. Should you see this movie in the theatre if you don’t have any kids? The answer is most assuredly no. If you’re having a craving for mildly entertaining animation save your $15 to $20 and tune into Nickelodeon....
By Jack Giroux
Having established himself as a master of the seedy crime underworld, director Michael Mann has once again delivered an other prime exampl...
After years of Iraq war films that are mostly nothing but pandering messages, now there is finally a film that adds something new to the genre. Kathryn Bige...
Taking out the much-coveted Camera d'Or this year at the Cannes Film Festival, director Warwick Thornton’s first feature film has reignited the Australian film industry. Using very little dialogue, this unpredictable coming of age story relies upon body language to engage with its audience.
Set in a remote Aboriginal Community in the Central Australian desert, Samson & Delilah follows the story of two Aboriginal teens, Samson (Rowan McNamara) and Delilah (Marissa Gibson) whose fight for survival is thwarted by violence, poverty and substance abuse....
“Once, not long ago, a small Egyptian police band arrived in Israel. Not many remember this. It was not that important.”
The Alexandria Police Ceremonial Orchestra arrives in Israel at the request of the Arab Cultural Center in Peta Tikva to play at their grand opening. With the potential disbanding of the Orchestra, the stoic leader and conductor Colonel Tawfiq Zacharya (Sasson Gabai) is determined to make the trip a success and bring honor to the Orchestra. Despite his best efforts the band runs into problems immediately upon arrival. The band is stranded in a foreign land unable to reach anyone who could help them. Attempting to find transportation on their own, the Arabic/Hebrew language barrier mistakingly sends them to a small empty town in the Israeli desert called Betah Tikva and not the Petah Tikva that invited them to play. With no more buses until morning and no hotels in the town the band finds themselves marooned for the night dependent on the kindness of strangers. A group of Arab men stuck in an Israeli town provokes thoughts of conflict and turmoil. However we are shown that even in the midst of a problem as large as Israeli/Arabic conflict we are all cut from the same cloth and the emotions and personalities that make us who we are transcend political and religious boundaries....
By Jordan Raup
Editor's Note: This review does contain spoilers.
During a scene in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen John Turturro’s (The Taking of ...
By Jack Giroux
Editor's Note: This review does contain spoilers.
Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen is an underwhelming follow up to a highly enterta...
