movie reviews

Some readers may be curious about the forthcoming Martin Scorsese film, Silence . The story follows two Jesuit priests (played by Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver) who leave Portugal in order to discover the fate of Father Ferreira (Liam Neeson), a missionary to Japan whom rumor has it had abandoned...
Jon Coutts
Transcendence is the latest in a long line of films which peer into the shadows of the technological future and try to prefigure the darkness and/or wonderment that could wait for us there. It stars Johnny Depp as Will Caster, a leading developer of artificial intelligence who is more interested in...
John Perritt
Spoiler alert: This review details key scenes in the movie and its ending. He determines the number of the stars; he gives to all of them their names. (Ps. 147:4) Movies like Gravity gave birth to terms like groundbreaking . After audiences were wowed by Alfonso Cuarón's near-perfect, Children of...
John Perritt
"A near-perfect movie," said Time magazine's Richard Corliss in reference to Kathryne Bigelow's film, The Hurt Locker," a tense military drama following an elite Army bomb squad unit which turned out to be one of the most critically acclaimed films that year, taking home Best Picture and Best...