Cinema Alliance Movie Reviews

Now I can never hear the name

Where to begin? I guess one possibility is to relate this story to Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West, by Cormac McCarthy. In that tale, a novel re-telling of

Ok. Generally, I do not return to a movie I have seen recently, even though my memory is nothing to celebrate. However, I had the opportunity to see a second showing of Prometheus. As a result, I need to clarify a couple of things. The production design of many holographic displays and the alien ship

There will be a gangster movie with a whopper cast. Josh Brolin, Nick Nolte, Sean Penn, and more will rid LA of nasty East Coast mafia types, some of whom evoke Jewish and Irish gangsters of decades past. This promises to be a dramatic shoot

You for damned sure know that it is going to hurt me to find this movie wanting, but, alas, I did. I found it wanting Sigourney Weaver in her underwear, Harry Dean Stanton yelling at Yaphet Koto over screaming steam pipes, I found it wanting better music, and so on.

Ok. So,

Prepare yourself now, not just for the Hunger Games movie, but also for the inevitable sequels. The movie made so much money that they will have plenty of money to realize the next two volumes of Susan Collins

Well, it was a pleasant surprise to sit in the theater and watch The Grey starring Liam Neeson. One reason that was so was the relative lack of star power in the movie. Except for Mr. Neeson, it was possible to concentrate on the characters and the plot of a movie that played homage to a couple of other interesting cinematic efforts, most notably 1993

It is a chilly winter Thursday in suburban Philadelphia and after sorting out our schedules after weeks of trying, we have finally found a chance to see a movie together. It has finally happened. It really looks like we are the only people at the movies and I speculate to myself as to what business model keeps this room open and showing movies. At ten or so dollars a ticket, the rental on the room is a good deal. Unfortunately, we can

Halloween is over and I am back from the insane asylum where I usually spend the holiday. If you are looking for something to do when you get back from your Occupy Wall Street protest and rinse the pepper gas out of your eyes thoroughly enough so that you can see again, why not take a Canadian style look at the good ol

This movie has very little to do with Greek mythology and even less to do with any sort of historical reality. Very few of the cast look Greek. The Herecletans or whatever are just redone Romans. Mickey Rourke is angry and wants to smash everything. Everyone looks way too handsome and too clean. (Ladies, this a great eye candy movie for you, and, on some level, I think that this effort is explained as a