Its not fair that the comparisons between SHARK TALE and FINDING NEMO are inevitable. Few films could weather being held to that high standard and not found wanting in some respects, and so it is with Dreamworks latest foray into the world of animation. Its not that SHARK TALE is a bad film, its not.… Read More »
HIDE AND SEEK
When making a thriller, especially ones with supernatural and psychological overtones, it is vitally important to at the very least not make the audience laugh unintentionally. HIDE AND SEEK fails to make it over even that low bar. Instead, it quickly devolves into a camp parody of everything it purports to be about, including Robert… Read More »
THE GOOD SHEPHERD – DVD
Doing the wrong things for the right, even honorable, reasons is the heart of the conflict in THE GOOD SHEPHERD, director Rober De Niro’s history of the CIA as told through the story of one of its founders. The tale is fictional, but the events, from the fall of the Third Reich to the Kennedy-era… Read More »
STONE
There is a tragic irony in STONE. Specifically, that Jack Mabry (Robert de Niro) has spent his professional life listening to convicts as they make their case for parole, and yet, he has never really heard any of them. He thinks hes wise to the lies they tell in order to be free once again.… Read More »