Like many movies, Doubt is based on a play. Throughout my viewing of the movie, I kept thinking that it probably would have been better and more intense on the stage, and that was somewhat disappointing. That said, the movie is very interesting and worth watching just to see the great acting by Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Amy Adams was pretty good ...

The title of this story is a bit of a misnomer — we don't really have the attention span required to put together a guide to every movie that could be considered a holiday release. With holiday-themed films like Four Christmasses already out and big end-of-year movies like Revolutionary Road and The Wrestler slated for sometime in the near future, there's plenty of material ...

The weeks when it's a struggle to find a movie worth seeing are often the weeks when you end up seeing something really worthwhile. With no interest in The Day the Earth Stood Still, this weekend I looked to Keystone Art Cinema for something that might be worth seeing. I decided to take a chance on a Swedish vampire film called Let The Right ...

A frenzy of whimsy, adventure, mystery, magic, corruption, drama, love, sex, tragedy and war mesmerized me while visiting the wonderful land of "Oz" the other night. That is, the land of Australia, created by director Baz Luhrmann. You didn't think I was referring to the Wizard of Oz, did you? Australia, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, is a stunning epic set in Northern ...

Blood lusting vampires sucked the life out of me this weekend, when I expected euphoria. OK, maybe that's a tad dramatic. In any case, if you didn't realize by now, I'm speaking of the newly premiered Twilight movie. I've heard enormous praise for the Twilight series over the past year from sources I consider pretty reliable in the book department, so when I finally ...