by Rob Webster | Jan 1, 2022 | ★★★★★★☆
Two cultures, both alike in dignity (In fair Manhattan, where we lay our scene), from ancient grudge break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean: This is the story of the West Side, with language not quite as foreign to our ears as Shakespeare,...
by Robert Suttle | Jan 15, 2018 | ★★★★★☆☆
Steven Spielberg’s The Post is a timely and well done look back at the events surrounding the Washington Post’s publication of the Pentagon Papers in 1971, and it does a very good job at capturing the tensions within the hierarchy of the newspaper as...
by Rob Webster | Dec 30, 2011 | ★★★☆☆☆☆
Lots of people will love the movie War Horse, as it plays on their emotions with too much music, overacting, and unnecessarily dramatic lighting. I’m sure War Horse is a wonderful play, and it’s easy to see the movie’s roots: Things fall out neatly...
by Rob Webster | Jun 12, 2011 | ★★★★★★☆
The movie Super 8 is excellent, and tells the story of a group of kids, amateur film makers in 1979 who, when filming a scene for their homemade zombie movie, witness an incredible (and mysterious) train crash, while their Super 8 camera witnesses even more. Super 8...