Yeah…so I’m four reviews behind. With holiday season here, and a number of potential "sees" coming in the next 10 days, it’s high time I catch up. Let’s start with the one I saw longest ago, and the reason I’ve been sitting on my hands for 3 weeks. I have no idea what to say […]

When you’re watching a movie and can’t place where you’ve seen an actor from, is there anything more satisfying than hopping on the computer when you get home and getting the answer? I had another such moment this weekend while/after watching the Audrey Tautou-starring Priceless. Tautou stars as Anna Nicole Smith. Well, not really, but […]

If there’s one thing I’ve learned about myself as it pertains to writing film reviews in the year and a half history of this site, it’s that I don’t like writing reviews for big blockbusters like Iron Man nearly as much as I enjoy writing about mid-range to small movies. It really has nothing to […]

There’s a certain je ne sais quoi I find myself noticing every time I watch a new Danny Boyle-directed film. Many directors have trademark qualities that even a novice film geek could pick up on, from Quentin Tarantino’s rapid-fire pop culture-inflected dialogue to Martin Scorcese’s Rolling Stones’-tinged gangster flicks, but Boyle has never seemed to […]

Thomas McCarthy is a busy man. Having worked his way up the acting ranks, from a bit part in Conspiracy Theory to a regular role on Boston Public all the way to supporting turns in such high-class fare as Syriana and Flags of our Fathers, he took his time in becoming a writer/director, but showed […]

It’s Sunday night. Outside of The Fall, for which I have yet to write a review, Mrs. Fletch and I hadn’t been to the theater much lately at all, both of us unimpressed by the output at the theaters in recent weeks. But we love going (and we love that Harkins popcorn), so I browse […]