The Hurt Locker is a much better movie. So is Paul Greengrass’s United 93, the greatest film ever made about 9/11. It’s worth comparing it to Zero Dark Thirty, because Greengrass avoids every single pitfall that makes Zero Dark Thirty a problematic entertainment. For one, he uses no recognizable…

It’s The Makeup, Stupid

Here are some of my thoughts on why it is very possible that Daniel Day Lewis will be nominated for an Oscar for…

The only authentic part of this movie by J.A Bayona (The Orphanage) is the spectacular, utterly realistic recreation of the tsunami that hit Southeast Asia in 2006. The special effects are truly extraordinary, but the movie, sadly, is not. All the attention of the filmmakers seems to have gone into…

Or a sunny fairy tale about the genesis of Psycho, of all things. This enjoyable morsel by Sacha Gervasi (ANVIL! The Story of Anvil), improbably turns the story of how one of the greatest artists in the history of film made of one of the scariest movies of all time into a sweet little fable with a happy…

Yours truly is happy to collaborate with Out.com writing about, what else, Movies!
Here’s my first dispatch about 5 great movies you may have missed this year and five more coming down the pike. I am happy to report, my post, which appeared today, is no. 6 in the most popular list! Enjoy!