I’m sure at some point there were good intentions about making a movie based on the Grimms’ Brothers fairty tale, “Hansel and Gretel”. Then something terrible happened. Maybe it was the greed of the studio, opting to for a big weekend; or maybe it was ignoring a keen script reader who kept reminding everyone the screenplay was awful — but instead of a Tim Buron-esque trippy fairy tale about a boy and girl battling a witch while lost in the woods, we get a mindless action movie with crappy CGi. Continue reading ‘Hansel and Gretel’ is fun at times but mostly misguided — movie review
Category Archives: 2013 Movie Reviews
‘Broken City’ is a broken movie with a pretty great cast — movie review
Ah, January movies. Every now and then there is a great one — at least I want to believe that. This isn’t it. Of course, like any movie, “Broken City” could have been amazing.
Unfortunately, the director set out to make a completely different movie than he was given in the screenplay and it ends up being a mess. It’s a shame too, because it’s a waste of a concept that’s not done right enough as well as a great cast. Continue reading ‘Broken City’ is a broken movie with a pretty great cast — movie review
‘Zero Dark Thirty’ a tense thriller that may not sit well with audiences — movie review
It is important to consider the context of “Zero Dark Thirty” before you view the movie. Director Kathryn Bigelow and her crew were already in pre-production on The Battle of Tora Bora, once believed to be a hideout for Osama Bin Laden. When the real-life S.E.A.L. Team Six raided a compound in Pakistan and killed Bin Laden in May of 2011, Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal started from scratch and decided to focus on the decade long search for the terrorist mastermind… (Continue Reading at Examiner.com)