King of Texas (2002) is an adaptation of King Lear within the western genre.  Lear (Patrick Stewart) decides to divide his empire among his three daughters.  In keeping with the original Shakespeare, the daughters must first tell their...

Leave it to mad scientist director Vincenzo Natali to splice (pun intended) together a haunted house film that turns the tired old genre inside out. Natali's built himself a dedicated fan base with simple yet high-concept thrillers...

Beginning today at 4:30 pm, the Northwest Film Center begins its special screenings of Samurai Cinema,  screening 11 films over the next few months.   It opens with "Ran" (Japan/France 1985), the highly acclaimed...

 The following reactions are from each of AZ Weekly Entertainment Magazine's film columnists Stan Robinson, Randy Montgomery, and Joseph J. Airdo in an effort to generate a well-rounded overview of this weekend's new movie...

Gravity is a movie of style and substance.  It’s a movie that will remind you of “2001: A Space Odyssey” because of its undertones of spirituality and the rebirth of the human soul.George Clooney...

In space, no one can hear you scream. This is certainly true if you find yourself spinning out of all control as you’re launched away from the earth into a dark abyss with nothing but a single layer...

Written by Markus Robinson, Edited by Nicole I. AshlandMarkus Rating: 5 out of 5 StarsRated PG-13 for intense perilous sequences, some disturbing images and brief strong languageNow playing at Century 20 Oakridge Mall in San Jose, California:Screw &ldquo...

In the “Director’s Fortnight” at the recent Cannes Film Festival in May was yet another Sundance entry, "We Are What We Are" , which opens Oct 5 in San Francisco (Century San Francisco Centre...

I don’t do this too often, but I’m going to have to write this review as a blogger and not an amateur movie critic.  I’m going to have to put the “no...

It took seven years for Alfonso Cuaron to follow-up his brilliant “Children of Men,” but “Gravity” proves to be worth the wait. A ninety-minute thrill ride that pushes what can be done on film...

In "Gravity," Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) is on her first NASA mission to work on the Hubble telescope. She is accompanied by Mission Commander Matt Kowalski (George Clooney) and three other crew members. It's during...

To watch Alfonso Cuarón’s “Gravity” is to experience the unfolding of a cinematic masterstroke. Apart from being an unprecedented technical triumph, Cuarón having relied on fledgling digital technologies and unproven mechanical feats in order...