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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close 24 Feb 2012 | 02:01 pm
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Film review by: Witney Seibold As a mystery, Stephen Daldry’s investigative 9/11 treasure hunt “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” is first rate. In a very simple a...
The Artist 24 Feb 2012 | 01:34 pm
The Artist Film review by: Witney Seibold Michel Hazanavicius has previously directed a pair of recent high-profile French spy spoofs about agent OSS-117 (played in the films by Jean Dujardin), whic...
The Innkeepers 4 Feb 2012 | 11:39 am
The Innkeepers Film review by: Witney Seibold Ti West‘s “The Innkeepers” is a horror movie, but you wouldn’t guess it at first glance. The setup is boilerplate haunted house stuff: A haunted hotel c...
The Grey 4 Feb 2012 | 11:37 am
The Grey Film review by: Witney Seibold I was disappointed there wasn’t more wolf mayhem. I wanna see a pissed off Liam Neeson punching wolves! Joe Carnahan‘s “The Grey” is a cold, textured, and ha...
Kill List 4 Feb 2012 | 11:34 am
Kill List Film review by: Witney Seibold Not to sound like a bored cynic, but I have to confess that, very occasionally, I find myself getting tired of the handheld, you-are-there approach to certai...
Red Tails 20 Jan 2012 | 06:00 am
Red Tails Film review by: Witney Seibold A cartoonish lump of noisy, colorful, children’s war fantasies, Anthony Hemingway’s “Red Tails” is a bold stylistic leap of ridiculousness. Hemingway is, as ...
Haywire (2012) 19 Jan 2012 | 08:00 am
Haywire Film review by: Witney Seibold Steven Soderbergh’s films are, when you look over his career, all over the map. He is a director who does not seem happy unless he’s breaking some sort of grou...
The Descendants 4 Jan 2012 | 11:41 pm
The Descendants Film review by: Witney Seibold Alexander Payne’s strengths lie in deeply flawed people coming to the slow realization of their own flaws, all through a tragic or dramatic event. Yet ...
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) 3 Jan 2012 | 09:32 pm
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) Film review by: Witney Seibold There is a weird overlap between Goth and cuddly. Some of the women who pierce their nipples, wear standoffish leather outfits, ...
The Adventures of Tintin 3 Jan 2012 | 07:05 pm
The Adventures of Tintin Film review by: Witney Seibold This is the first animated film Stephen Spielberg has made, and it kind of shows. Let me explain what I mean by that. A live-action film direc...