The Movie Buff

I first watched “Jason and the Argonauts” in my 8th grade Latin class and was blown away. The 1963 fantasy film based on the tale from Greek mythology was lauded for its stop-motion animation with various monsters and creatures the titular crew encounters along the journey. Like many from my generation, I was mesmerized by [...]

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“Insidious: Out of the Further” is a decent step in the right direction, but it’s tracking way too much mud from the places it’s already been. Directed by Jacob Chase, the latest addition to this 16-year-old franchise was a bit of a surprise. Unlike previous films that centers around the mother of this franchise, Elise [...]

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Some movies become part of you before you’re old enough to understand everything they’re carrying. For me, one of those was James Bond. I still remember my dad introducing me to “Goldfinger,” and being transported watching Sean Connery deploy every little gadget on his Aston Martin DB5 before running off with Pussy Galore. I loved those [...]

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Andrew Niccol knows how to write dystopian films. And direct them. In his first, “GATTACA,” he examined the human spirit amidst a time where perfect humans were grown in a lab and ‘degene-erates’—lesser humans—were the product of natural birth. “The Truman Show” was sci-fi, the story of a man whose life was televised, primarily unbeknownst to [...]

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We say it often. And often it’s true. They don’t make movies like this anymore. The “like this” being adult dramas, in this situation “Ordinary People” a 1980 multi-Oscar winning picture directed by the legend Robert Redford. There’s no comic book mayhem or trillion-dollar effects budget. “Ordinary People” chronicles the breakdown of an upper-class family [...]

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