Jim Erickson

Movie Review: The Great Gatsby

Jim Erickson — Thu, 16 May 2013 10:00:00 +0000

The Great Gatsby is so good that I am required to give up my dislike of writer-director Baz Luhrmann for his William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge, because in The Great Gatsby Luhrmann forgets about calling attention to himself and devotes himself to his material, and comes as close to doing justice to F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel as I expect any movie director ever can.

Movie Review: Iron Man 3

Jim Erickson — Thu, 09 May 2013 10:00:00 +0000

Every so often, my duties to the general public force me to suffer through a movie I would ordinarily not-- and Iron Man 3 is an action movie, a borderline science fiction movie, and a special-effects movie, any one of which would ordinarily save me my movie dollar. So don't expect my comments here to do justice to Iron Man 3.

Movie Review: Mud

Jim Erickson — Thu, 02 May 2013 10:00:00 +0000

Mud is a first-rate little drama of life among the lower classes, a little like Winter's Bone, and maybe a good deal more subtle than it seems at first glance.

Movie Review: Oblivion

Jim Erickson — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:00:00 +0000

Friday's "Go!" section in the Eagle said some things so generic to current movies that I have half a mind to make a rubber stamp of it to use as a template for future reviews.

Movie Review: Trance

Jim Erickson — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 10:00:00 +0000

Even with a little help from some people in the audience, I'm not sure I can say that Trance makes complete sense.

Movie Review: The Croods

Jim Erickson — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:00:00 +0000

The Croods is a quite enjoyable animation that might have been a little better if it had made up its mind what it wanted to do and worked a little harder to avoid repetition.

Movie Review: Spring Breakers

Jim Erickson — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 10:00:00 +0000

Spring Breakers will owe its box office success to its continual shots of bosoms and bottoms, not always covered by bikinis.

Movie Review: The Call

Jim Erickson — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:27:00 +0000

The Call does, as accused, turn in the end from a first-rate police procedural about how the 911 emergency system operates into a story of first-person heroics by Halle Berry.

Movie Review: Oz the Great and Powerful

Jim Erickson — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:00:00 +0000

Oz the Great and Powerful is a fun movie not unworthy to be a successor-- as a prequel-- to the great MGM movie of 1939. It isn't as good as The Wizard of Oz, but what is?

Movie Review: 21 & Over

Jim Erickson — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:41:35 +0000

The makers of the Hangover movies have titled their new movie 21 & Over, supposedly because it is about the loss of innocence and gain in adulthood bestowed by one's 21st birthday.