Movie Reviews

BY MAGGIE SCOTT Add greed and stupidity to the colossal failings and menaces that the human race has to offer the universe along with violence and ecological destruction. Not much…

BY MAGGIE SCOTT Before the city of Mumbai was recent front page news around the world thanks to bloody terrorist attacks, India’s teeming metropolis (formerly known as Bombay) played a…

BY MAGGIE SCOTT If you came away feeling malnourished from what you had hoped would be another sensual feast from James Bond and company in "Quantum of Solace," you are…

BY MAGGIE SCOTT At one point in the sprawling saga of Australia, the genteel lady turns with flashing eyes to her stalwart male companion and says, "We can’t let them…

BY MAGGIE SCOTT According to the popular song, "there’s no place like home for the holidays," Brad and Kate would beg to differ: Fiji is more like it this year.…

BY MAGGIE SCOTT There’s nothing wrong with "Twilight" that a little bit of Bela and a little bit of Anne Rice couldn’t fix fast. Overly sensitive to their target audience,…

BY MAGGIE SCOTT You’ll be shaken, but not stirred by the new James Bond film, "Quantum of Solace." Author Ian Fleming’s short story title is enigmatic; as is 007 (Daniel…

BY MAGGIE SCOTT "Madagascar Escape 2 Africa," like all animated features geared to children, has a lesson; and it’s one we’ve been clobbered with over and over in countless animated…

BY MAGGIE SCOTT A woman turns to the police for help finding her missing son, only to find that what she has always seen as men with the authority— the…

BY MAGGIE SCOTT Director Oliver Stone puts a unique stamp on his work, and is sometimes vilified for it, by the importance he places on shaping a movie based on…