Chip Kaufmann’s Pick: Wake Wood (2011) Well now that the new Hammer’s latest opus The Quiet Ones is in the theaters and is not as good as its predecessors (see my review this issue), you should check out the least known of their previous four movies and that is WakeContinue Reading
Just a couple of weeks ago the good Professor Kaufmann and I were lamenting the offerings at the cinema. We were actually wondering what we were going to force ourselves to see in order to cobble a section together. When a superhero movie and a mainstream faith-based film are theContinue Reading
Divergent ***1/2 Short Take: Overlong Hunger Games knockoff has its good points including a nice turn from Kate Winslet as the principal villainess. Reel Take: Yet another installment in the Young Adult book trilogy to film version saga has a few things going for it. It’s clearly designed as aContinue Reading
by Chip Kaufmann The next time you watch a TV show on the Fox Network, cheer or hiss a talking head on Fox News, see a movie produced by Twentieth Century Fox (or any studio for that matter), or visit the Fox Theater in Atlanta, then spare a thought forContinue Reading
Chip Kaufmann’s Pick: Sunrise (1927) Is Sunrise the greatest silent movie ever made? Who can say? What is without question is that Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (to give the film its full title) IS one of the greatest films ever made, sound or silent. The fact that weContinue Reading
The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza) ***1/2 Short Take: An exquisitely filmed but overlong and very confusing look back at an Italian writer’s life on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Reel Take: There’s lots of Oscar buzz surrounding La Grande Bellezza (The Great Beauty) as the entry to beatContinue Reading
by Chip Kaufmann Last month marked the 100th anniversary of the first appearance of a movie icon. But, if it weren’t for the intervention of another film comedy pioneer, his first appearance might have been his last. On February 2, 1914 Charlie Chaplin appeared in a Keystone comedy called MakingContinue Reading
Chip Kaufmann’s Pick: Chato’s Land (1972) The recent death of Ralph Waite brought back memories of The Waltons but his long stint on that show has obscured his versatility as a character actor which was put to good use in such early 1970s movies as The Stone Killer where heContinue Reading
August: Osage County **** Short Take: A dysfunctional family reunites and ignites. REEL TAKE: If you think your family has problems, you’ll feel much better, by comparison, after watching August: Osage County. Actor, screenwriter and playwright, Tracy Letts, is no stranger to the ugly underbelly of life (Killer Joe). SoContinue Reading
