Salt

Salt is a Spy-Fi thriller so delightfully bad you can fly a 747 through its plot holes. As a bonus, the wonderful Andre Braugher is completely wasted in a cameo (as Secretary of Defense) so brief you’ll miss it if you blink. Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie) is a covert CIA operative. Released from imprisonment in [...]

The Ghost Writer

There’s an air of familiarity to the story, in more ways than one. Former British Prime Minister Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan) is accused of war crimes and finds himself exiled in a bunker-like estate—a cross between Bauhaus and Usonian architecture. Just prior to these allegations by MP Robert Rycart (Robert Pugh), the original ghost writer [...]

Shutter Island

Set in Boston, 1954, Shutter Island tells the story of U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio). He arrives, we’re told, at the island’s psychiatric hospital to investigate the disappearance of a woman who drowned her three children. We’ve seen so many films which play with perception versus reality in a psychiatric setting. Here, director Martin [...]

This Is It

Where does one begin to sum up the surreal existence of Michael Jackson? Director/Choreographer Kenny Ortega starts with his dancers, whose personal and professional lives have been changed forever simply being on that stage, auditioning for the opportunity to go on what would have been Mr. Jackson’s farewell tour. The enormous production is enough to [...]