Review: Up in the Air

George Clooney and Anna Kendrick economic comedy flick

A journey both by plane and through character, this third effort from Jason Reitman tells a relatable story about a guy who makes flight connections, not personal ones. In a landscape littered with Avatars, Nelson Mandela and Sherlock Holmes, George Clooney gives us small story about…a guy.  A guy you like.  A guy you’d hang [...]

Review: Avatar

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Awesome in the literal sense.  Full of awe.  An interesting way of using the latest in CGI to show the beauty of nature, this movie truly brought me to a fully realized world and made me care about characters that weren’t actually there in a place that didn’t actually exist. Labeled “the most expensive movie [...]

Review: Invictus

Nelson Mandela ends apartheid film

A story of one of the boldest public relations moves in history.  Morgan Freeman gives the performance he was born to play in a movie that is captivating, both historically and in the narrative. Most sports movies are about redemption, whether it’s an aging athlete trying to be relevant again, a team trying to prove [...]

Review: Brothers

Natalie Portman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Toby Maguire

Brothers is heart-wrenching.  Heart-wrenching and painful, full of loss and regret and rebuilding your life and what a person will do to get back to their family.  It’s a lot of things but most of all it’s a damn good movie.  A very simple plot with the depth some of the best actors today can [...]