Aaron Johnson
Movie Review: Kick-Ass 2
After the events of the first Kick-Ass film, regular citizens, inspired by the action of the hero who shares a name with the film’s title, decide to don masks and fight for justice. Kick-Ass (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) has started a movement, and unfortunately, his work has also spawned the world’s first super-villain. Still reeling from his Mob Boss father’s death at the hands of Kic...[Read More]
Movie Review: Savages
In my estimation, Oliver Stone has not made an exceptional film in fifteen years; 1997’s U-Turn was the last worthy one in a celebrated run of controversial classics that helped define 1990’s American cinema. Beginning with The Doors (1991) and culminating in a nasty neo-noir (U-Turn [1997]), the director’s forceful combination of large themes and dynamic cinematic playfulness engendered as much a...[Read More]
Movie Review: Albert Nobbs
Albert Nobbs is a strangely wonderful little movie about a strange little man named Albert Nobbs (Glenn Close), who isn’t a man at all but a woman disguised as a man to live a better life in 19th-century Ireland. Nominated for three Oscars (Best Actress – Close, Best Supporting Actress – Janet McTeer, and Best Achievement in Makeup), the film explores interesting questions about gender. Despite a ...[Read More]