Cowboys & Aliens

The title Cowboys and Aliens suggests a Western/Sci-Fi mash-up romp. With a cast including Harrison Ford, Daniel Craig, Olivia Wilde and Sam Rockwell and directed by Jon Favreau (the man behind the Iron Man movies) this should have been a slam-dunk. It is not. Cowboys and Aliens is an amazingly dull and absolutely humorless mess of a movie. Continue reading

Farewell to Freedom in the Adriatic

I was hoping to have a review of X-Men: First Class or Super 8 for today, but I did not end up seeing them as soon as I would have liked. (I have seen both now, reviews are forthcoming.) So instead, I decided to write a review of my favorite movie, Porco Rosso.  Continue reading