Movie Reviews

GEORGE CLOONEY and VIOLANTE PLACIDO star in the The American. By  Sandra Olmsted The most important thing the opening of a film can do is to make the audience care…

THE SWITCH stars Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman . By SANDRA OLMSTED In the The Switch, which is more worth seeing for the acting than the predictable, more-sweet-than-funny story, Jennifer…

The Other Guys:  Political Activism Buried in Absurdist Humor By Sandra Olmsted In the guise of a buddy-cop action parody, executive producer Will Ferrell and director Adam McKay make the villain…

Evelyn Salt, Angelina Jolie proves she has the chops to be a James Bond-esque action star because her new film Salt uses less CGI and more real stunts. Salt:  A…

BY SANDRA OLMSTEAD Knight and Day, directed by James Mangold (3:10 to Yuma), has a number of good qualities to recommend it, but an important message and studied character development…

The Sex in the City gal pals are back, this time visiting Abu Dhabi in Sex in the City 2. Sex in the City 2 : Pushing The Limits of…

Russell Crowe is Robin Longstride before he became Robin Hood in new epic film from Universal. By Maggie Scott It’s not just the legendary man of Sherwood Forest who’s launching target-piercing…

ROBERT DOWNEY JR. is back in Iron Man 2 By Maggie Scott In 2008 another hero from the beloved Marvel Comics world of Stan Lee made a successful transition to cinematic life. …