Written and directed by Kenneth Branagh, "Belfast," is the filmmaker's autobiographical coming-of-age story of a nine-year-old boy told amidst the tumultuous late 1960s.
Frozen was a really great movie but the songs got a little annoying. The movie is a cartoon musical. Most of the songs were good but some went on for too long. I liked the movie because it was interesting and was not just another true love’s first kiss story. Frozen starts off with two Princess, Elsa (voiced by Idina Menzel) and Anna (voiced by Kristen Bell) who live with their parents in a ...[Read More]
Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph was one of my favorite movies last year, and it gave me a good feeling to see that the House of Mouse can still make great animated films even when they aren’t under the Pixar banner. After that, I was eagerly anticipating the next Disney animated feature, Frozen, loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen and written and co-directed by Jennifer L...[Read More]
Closed Circuit is a competent, yet bland political thriller that feels more like a BBC television drama than a theatrical film. Despite some fine acting from leads Eric Bana and Rebecca Hall, the film lacks the compelling characters or an engaging storyline to keep even the most lackadaisical of thriller aficionados interested. Several months after an apparent terrorist attack in London, the accus...[Read More]
Having never seen a single Harry Potter movie, I was curious to see Daniel Radcliffe’s first major non-magician role, and while I was surprised at how well he portrayed the perpetually brooding widower, Arthur Kipps in The Woman in Black, I found the film itself to be a run of the mill ghost story full of familiar plot devices, flat characters, and underwhelming scares. The opening scene sets the ...[Read More]