Brave (Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman, 2012)

Brave  is at once the most visually distinctive project Pixar has yet made and their most derivative work. Slightly dimmed as if filmed by n...

The Brothers Bloom

It's perfectly possible that The Brothers Bloom , despite its erroneous title -- one of the brothers is named Bloom, and neither seems t...

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

After running through my marathon viewing of the previous five installments of the Harry Potter franchise in the last two days, I've com...

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

After Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets solved some of the issues of the first film while further entrenching many of its other weakn...

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

All right, then. Now that I've gotten all the background for my feelings on the Harry Potter franchise out in my previous review -- hey,...

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

With the release of the sixth Harry Potter installment upon us, I decided to revisit the other five films for the first time in ages, to ch...