Tony Laplume

John Carter review

There's been a lot of confusion over what exactly John Carter is. That does not actually need to be a problem:Creator Edgar Rice Burroughs is best known for Tarzan, but he dreamed up his Martian hero...

The Oscar should go to...

With the Academy Awards being announced on Sunday, I thought it would be fun to weigh in on who I thought the winners should be in the major categories. That being said, the votes have already been cast, tallied...

This Means War review

Sometimes you go to the movies just to be wowed by the art of filmmaking, and that's what director McG specializes in. He's responsible for both the Charlie's Angels movies and We Are...

Tom Hardy career capsule

Tom Hardy (This Means War) is an actor whose undeniable magnetism has taken an introvert along for one of the more complicated paths toward stardom.Hardy was first glimpsed in 2001's Black Hawk Down, as one of Ridley...

Chris Pine career capsule

Chris Pine (This Means War) is an actor whose effortless charisma is sometimes a little hard to contextualize. He's a leading man who's young enough where his biggest strength can be his biggest weakness, because...

Best films of 2011

There is a caveat I'd like to make before I begin, and that's that any "best of" list should always be considered not only subjective but subject to change, whether because opinions change or...

Five reasons to watch Five

Five is a collaborative film from the Lifetime cable network that meditates on the topic of breast cancer. Few people watched its premiere, which was something of a shame, but there will be more opportunies in the near future...

Warrior is the best movie of the year

Here it is September, awards season is months away, I haven't seen any of the movies the studios typically reserve for release with those specific designs, and I will in all confidence declare Warrior to be the best...

Happening into a state of fear

The tenth anniversary of 9/11 necessarily has everyone in a reflective mood, in all manner of ways, both in the personal and universal sense. Hollywood has been attempting to meditate on the events of September 11, 2001 for the...

The Debt is first class

For some reason, this was a summer for holocaust movies. There was, if you were paying attention, Magneto's personal battles in X-Men: First Class, and now we have John Maddon's The Debt, an infinitely superior film, and...

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