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This Week's Classic Movie Picks - 8/11 - 8/17
Monday – August 11th – It goes without saying that Marlon Brando represented a sea change in the way the craft of acting was approached as he was at the forefront of bringing Method Acting to the...
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Robin Williams (1951–2014)
I always preferred Williams in his more serious roles, when he was forced to slow down, consider his character’s motivations and construct their backstory, that he was most effective.read more
View Article"Cops" familiar but fun
I often tell people where popular movies are concerned – “Keep your expectations low and you might end be pleasantly surprised.” Such is the case with Let’s be Cops, a goofy bromance comedy. I often...
View Article"Expendables 3" too Familiar to Thrill
Having now sat through three Expendables movies, I can safely say that this is the most predictable franchise in film history. Nothing, and I mean nothing comes as a surprise in Sylvester Stallone’s...
View ArticleFey “What if” an exercise in irritation
It’s hard for me to put into words just how much Michael Dowse’s What If irritated me. It’s hard for me to put into words just how much Michael Dowse’s What If irritated me. Not so much like...
View ArticleHoffman’s power on full display in 'Most Wanted'
It’s been a rough year where deaths in the world of film are concerned. It’s been a rough year where deaths in the world of film are concerned. While we acknowledge their passing and recognize the...
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Classic movie picks, Aug. 18-24
Matt Damon, Laurence Olivier, Dustin Hoffman, Gloria Swanson and more in Chuck Koplinski's classic movie picks of the week.read more
View ArticleJust Enough Magic in "Moonlight"
While Magic in the Moonlight doesn’t rank as one of Woody Allen’s finer efforts, it certainly isn’t without its charms. While Magic in the Moonlight doesn’t rank as one of Woody Allen’s finer efforts,...
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Chuck's Classic Movie Picks 8/25 - 8/31
You might want to fire up the DVR for these recommendations from Chuck Koplinski.read more
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Reel Page-Turners – August 2014
If there’s one subgenre that’s exploded over the last decade it’s that of the zombie movie. read more
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Familiarity Makes "Game" Stand Still
More times than not, there’s a recurring problem where most faith-based movies are concerned – they’re often less-than subtle in delivering their message, which is ironic because for the most part...
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Chuck's Classic Movie Picks 9/1 - 9/7
One of the better films to come out of Australia in the last five years, David Michod’s Animal Kingdom (2010), which airs at 1:50 pm on the Encore Suspense Channel, is a taut coming-of-age tale about a...
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It Never Came to Town - Night Moves
Kelly Reichardt’s Night Moves is the sort of movie that slowly eats away at you, particularly after the credits roll. Though flawed in execution, its noble intent and realistic look at the futility of...
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Chuck's Classic Movie Picks 9/8 - 9/14
Many have tried to put into words an accurate description of Greta Garbo’s beauty as well as the sort of hypnotic charisma she possessed. I don’t think it can be done. read more
View ArticleIt Never Came to Town - "Words and Pictures"
There’s definitely a retro vibe at play in Fred Schepisi’s Words and Pictures, a film that comes off as a Hepburn-Tracy romance with a bit of a modern update. Without question, the formula of...
View Article"Congress" Drowns in its Own Ambition
To say that Ari Folman’s The Congress has an axe to grind is an understatement of titanic proportions. A film that’s literally brimming with ideas, it’s a production that’s as timely as they come as...
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Chuck's Classic Movie Picks 9/15 - 9/21
Following up a sensation like The Sixth Sense is an unenviable position to be in yet writer/director M. Night Shyamalan managed to be up to the task when he made Unbreakable (2000).read more
View ArticleLithgow and Molina Elevate "Strange"
When director Leo McCarey was awarded the Academy Award for Best Director in 1938 for his film The Awful Truth, he said in his acceptance speech that he was getting the Oscar for the wrong movie. He...
View Article"Alexander” an Effective Reminder of Our Blessings
We’ve all had them, those days when, not only do things go badly, but circumstances occur that are so outlandish, so catastrophic that we can’t possibly understand how they came to be. These are the...
View Article"Ouija" reveals nothing new
It isn’t that Ouija, the latest property from Hasbro Toys, after G.I. Joe and Transformers, to hit the screen, is necessarily a bad movie.It isn’t that Ouija, the latest property from Hasbro Toys,...
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