Movie Reviews

BY MAGGIE SCOTT With an eye to box office receipts and common denominator appeal, director Chris Weitz has gutted the anti-religious dogma thrust of the literary source for the fantasy…

BY MAGGIE SCOTT Ian McEwan’s best-selling novel "Atonement," now turned to turgid cinema by director Joe Wright, deserved the Masterpiece Theatre treatment---lengthy probing of the psyches and behaviors of a…

BY MAGGIE SCOTT One man has stolen another man’s wife. There’s the little matter of divorce. What will it take to convince the husband to agree without the messiness of…

BY MAGGIE SCOTT Mother love, family ties and holiday cheer are all put to the test by the strains, strifes, strivings and secrets of the children of Ma’Dere Whitfield (Loretta…

BY MAGGIE SCOTT More than the hills are alive with the sound of music in the lavishly corny drama "August Rush", about an exceptionally gifted young boy who never gives…

BY MAGGIE SCOTT Nobody does princess like Disney. While the media and commercial giant owes a major debt of gratitude to the Brothers Grimm, most of their Magic Kingdom’s mega…

BY MAGGIE SCOTT Perhaps you’re thinking, "enough already with the hero movies." Maybe you’ve just about had it with blood and gore. Could be that you don’t think Hollywood’s got…

BY MAGGIE SCOTT A man admits he hasn’t been a good father to his son. The child confesses he hasn’t been a good son. But, it’s too late. The die…

BY MAGGIE SCOTT Joel and Ethan Coen have adapted Cormac McCarthy’s acclaimed novel "No Country for Old Men" into a stomach-churning horror drama. With the stunning kick of a rattlesnake…

BY MAGGIE SCOTT A fatal accident tears apart the lives of two very different fathers, and their disparate handling of the tragedy plays out to wrenching effect in the eyes…