Star Trek: Into Darkness
132 minutes. PG-13. You think you’re safe. You are not. Is there anything you would not do for your family? Star Trek: Into Darkness opens almost like an old original series episode: First Officer Spock (Zachary Quinto) nobly indulges his death wish, Captain James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) does daring things that mess up developing societies, and Dr. Leonard McCoy (Karl Urban) gets dragged along, panicking all the way. As usual,...
Robot & Frank
89 minutes. Rated PG-13. After you wipe my memory, things can go back to normal and you can continue planning your next job. Robot and Frank is the story of an aging cat burglar Frank Langella and his accomplice, a robotic home health aid whose personality might be a product of Frank’s loneliness and memory loss… or not. As his memory deteriorates, Frank’s care becomes a more and more serious problem for his highly...
Quarantine
89 min. Rated R. “They’re not gonna let us out of here alive, are they?” Quarantine is a zombie movie for those who are sick of boring zombies. Fast and highly entertaining, it draws upon sources as diverse as Night of the Living Dead, Cloverfield, and the nightly news. I wouldn’t go quite so far as to call it believable, but Quarantine does have a decent patina of reality. Compared to other members of its genre,...
Prairie Love
81 minutes. Not rated. “So, back in the day, like, hundreds of years ago, when they rode horses with wagons trying to get west before winter… Anyway, sometimes something or other would go wrong and then they wouldn’t make it far enough west before winter hit, and the they’d be stuck out in the cold, you know, out in the prairie with nothing. You can about imagine what that would be like.” Prairie Love is...
Oz the Great and Powerful
130 minutes Rated PG. Quote: I am Oz, the great and powerful! Oscar’s (James Franco) life sucks. Though he knows he’s destined for greatness, he’s stuck as a small-time carnival magician and ladies’ man in rural Kansas. Luckily, just when it looks like he’s doomed to eternal misunderstood schmuckdom, an angry circus strongman chases Oscar into a tornado and the our hero-ish person ends up in the magical...
