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When it comes to the truly great horror films of Irish cinema, everyone knows the classics: Leprechaun, Leprechaun 4: In Space, Leprechaun 5: In the Hood. ... What you may not know, is that there are scary movies hailing from the Emerald Isle that don't feature Warwick Davis as a
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I hate Jane Austen. Yeah, I said it. It may shock some of you to hear this, but early 19th century romantic British literature just isn't my cup of tea. (Rimshot!) I don't think Jane Austen's a bad writer or that there's anything inherently wrong with her literary genre. It's
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Over the last few months, I've reviewed films about homicidal anarchists, arranged marriages, cancer survivors, suicide bombers, Somali pirates, bourgeois paintings and harrowing life-or-death expeditions across the Pacific Ocean. Every once in a while, it's nice to take a break from all of that and review something SERIOUS! In the hallowed
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Are you a good negotiator? Many people would likely rank their bargaining skills somewhere between "fair" and "excellent" if asked to make an honest assessment. After all, everyone has at least one harrowing tale of unequalled wheeling and dealing in their past. Maybe you channeled your inner Fonzie and, with
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There was so much potential, so much possibility for success and perhaps even greatness. Then one woman's inexplicably heinous act rent it all asunder. But that's enough about Miley Cyrus' performance at the VMAs. The Attack is the latest film from Lebanese director Ziad Doueiri, adapted from the international best-selling novel
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In a series of commercials for Paul Masson champagne, (which you should definitely look up on YouTube, but I digress), the late, great Orson Welles once opined, "Ah, the French..." and while Welles then went on to extol the virtues of moderately priced champagne that was somehow French despite being
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Foreign films are a hard sell for some people. Many moviegoers are quick to dismiss them as pretentious, esoteric little things best reserved for only the hippest of hipsters. Unless the foreign film in question is dubbed over in English and features giant rubbery monsters moshing in the middle of
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I know that I may be revealing myself as a bit of a musical troglodyte if I tell you this, but when I first received word that I'd be reviewing the movie Ain't in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm, my first thought was, "Who the heck
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All you need is love, or so Lennon and McCartney would have you believe; and although the Beatles' 1967 ballad is nowhere to be found on the film's soundtrack, (Dean Martin's "That's Amore" does an excellent job serving as the film's leitmotif), it seems the Fab Four's sentiment remains intact
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Two wrongs don't make a right. Everyone's heard that old adage countless times from parents, teachers, clergy, Mister Rogers and other sage luminaries. It seems like perfectly sound, reasonable advice if one wants to lead a life on the right side of justice and in the service of good. Then,
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Film trilogies tend to follow this pattern: the first film draws its audience in and leaves them wanting more when the credits roll. The second film corrects the flaws while retaining and building upon the strengths of the first film, resulting in a sequel that outdoes the original and once
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The biopic can be a tricky thing. Many of the genre's offerings take artistic license beyond its proper boundaries, placing an overly-sanctified and sanitized protagonist into an overly-sentimental and idealized period in history, often resulting in a film that plays more like a "director's cut" of the subject's life rather
