MOVIE REVIEWS
REGGIE TALES The Perks of Being a Wallflower: Reviewed by OWHG
Editor's note: Out of Work Hockey Guy has had some spare time on his hands. That, coupled with his love of movies, moved him to write a guest blog for The Tales. I was pleasantly surprised when I rece...
Posted on 2/27/13 at 10:41 AM
MODERN-DAY JANE Pleasantly Surprised
Let me start off by saying that I am not a film expert by ANY definition. I mean, I love romantic comedies. Not all of them, but that's my preference. I also like historical (usually British) films an...
Posted on 1/31/11 at 4:28 PM
Boyle creates sense of isolation in ‘127 Hours’ 
Like many Danny Boyle movies, including “28 Days Later,” “Millions” and ”Slumdog Millionaire,” “127 Hours” is an against-all-odds survival saga.
By Carrie Rickey, McClatchy Newspapers , January 28, 2011
Hopkins can’t save flawed ‘Rite’
Thirty minutes into the exorcism thriller “The Rite,” Anthony Hopkins shows up. And for this performance, playing a grizzled, whimsical Welsh exorcist plying his trade in the working-class back alleys of Rome, Sir Tony packed the prosciutto.
By Roger Moore, McClatchy Newspapers , January 28, 2011
Violent ‘Mechanic’ in need of some repairs
Jason Statham is put on fine display in Simon West’s remake of the Charles Bronson hired-killer thriller, “The Mechanic.”
By Roger Moore , McClatchy Newspapers , January 28, 2011
Carrey’s smokin’ in ‘Phillip Morris’
Despite its title, it has nothing to do with cigarettes. But its star, as he once famously said on screen, is absolutely “smokin’.”
By Roger Moore, McClatchy Newspapers , January 28, 2011
'No Strings Attached': Friends-with-benefits tale turns into twisted, funny romance
Ivan Reitman – whose directing career (“Ghostbusters”) is so long in the tooth that he actually has a son, Jason, directing Oscar-worthy comedies – has his best outing in decades with “No Strings Attached,” an amusing flip of the “friends with benefits” sex-leads-to-love romantic comedy formula.
By Roger Moore, McClatchy Newspapers , January 21, 2011
Dunst shines in ‘All Good Things’
Kirsten Dunst makes a vivid, brittle return to the big screen with “All Good Things,” a fictionalized account of a notorious New York missing-person case with hints of great wealth, great love, treachery and murder.
By Roger Moore, McClatchy Newspapers , January 21, 2011
Director’s ‘Dilemma’
Howard misses opportunity with infidelity farceRon Howard’s “The Dilemma” presents the viewer with one. Is it OK to laugh at what was plainly intended as a relationship comedy?
By Roger Moore, McClatchy Newspapers , January 14, 2011
'Made in Dagenham' a fun history lesson
What, exactly, was “Made in Dagenham,” the gigantic Ford factory in the UK, back in 1968?
Nothing less than equal rights for women, Nigel Cole’s “Norma Rae from the UK” suggests.
By Roger Moore, McClatchy Newspapers , January 14, 2011
‘King’s Speech’ eloquent, elegant
According to “The King’s Speech,” King George VI – born Albert Frederick Arthur George, “Bertie” to his intimates – had such a paralyzing stutter that it was a struggle for him to say his own name.
By Carrie Rickey, McClatchy Newspapers , January 14, 2011
‘Green Hornet’ an epic failure
Perhaps “The Green Hornet” is director Michel Gondry’s mocking wink at the Hollywood of masked heroes and the fanboys who made it that way.
By Roger Moore, McClatchy Newspapers , January 14, 2011
‘Country Strong’ familiar
Strength of performances elevates same old storyLos Angeles – There is a down-home comfort saturating “Country Strong” – in that “somebody done somebody wrong song” way – that almost carries you through when its music-drenched melodrama gets predictable.
By Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times , January 07, 2011
Cage, Perlman battle evil in ‘Season of the Witch’
Film suffers from poor ending, predictable plotReason meets superstition in “Season of the Witch,” starring Nicolas Cage as a 14th-century knight who encounters a young girl possessed by evil. Or is she?
By Rafer Guzman, McClatchy Newspapers , January 07, 2011
‘Tamara’ a tease
Sex farce fails to maintain its focus“Voluptuous” doesn’t quite do Gemma Arterton justice. It leaves out her voluminous hair, her perma-pout and those eyes so dark no cinematographer seems able to coax color from them.
By Roger Moore, McClatchy Newspapers , January 07, 2011
‘Tiny Furniture’ intriguing but self-absorbed
There are tiny pleasures to be found in “Tiny Furniture,” a bare mumble of mumblecore musings on a brief time in the life of a young woman named Aura. She’s a lot like the film’s writer-director Lena Dunham, and in fact is portrayed by Dunham herself.
By Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times , January 07, 2011
Jack and the giant mess
Black acts through series of gags in update of ‘Gulliver’s Travels’It begins with a very short cartoon starring that pre-historic “Ice Age” squirrel and ends with a big song-and-dance number. But no, “Gulliver’s Travels” isn’t all filler. Even though it sometimes seems that way.
By Roger Moore, McClatchy Newspapers , December 24, 2010
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