By David Ferguson on Feb 20, 2012 in Action/Adventure, Comedy, Romance | 6 Comments
Well it is mid-February and already my hope is that This Means War is the worst movie I will sit through all year. It’s a waste of talent and utterly senseless . . . which would be fine if it happened to be funny as advertised. Instead, the screenwriters — Timothy Dowling and Simon Kinberg [...]
By David Ferguson on Jan 12, 2012 in Drama, Romance, War | 6 Comments
Most of us are extremely under-informed on the details of the Bosnian War thanks to the cursory western media coverage, and the mostly hands-off approach the United Nations took in responding to it. In the Land of Blood and Honey, Angelina Jolie’s writing/directorial debut, works to rectify that. And while it doesn’t shy away from [...]
By David Ferguson on Dec 30, 2011 in Comedy, Drama, Family | 0 Comments
Director Cameron Crowe has finally emerged from his cocoon — seven years after the abysmal Elizabethtown. Yes, he has had a couple of projects in that time, notably the Pearl Jam documentary, but he has avoided anything related to his dramatic film roots of which produced Say Anything, Jerry Maguire and Almost Famous. With We [...]