Articles by John C. Anderson
Guest Movie Review: The Croods
A family of Neanderthals navigate the dangers of the pre-historic world in DreamWorks’ latest animated feature
Guest Movie Review: Oz the Great and Powerful
Director Sam Raimi takes on one of the greatest cinematic classics of ‘em all – with decidedly mixed results
Guest Movie Review: Jack the Giant Slayer
The old folk tale gets an sfx-laden kid-friendly modern retelling by one of Hollywood’s most successful directors
Guest Movie Review: A Good Day to Die Hard
John McClane rides again in the latest chapter of the “Die Hard” franchise
Guest Movie Review: Warm Bodies
“Warm Bodies” is a zombie rom-com: but does boy meet girl, or EAT girl?
Guest Movie Review: Hansel & Gretel
The adorable little candy-seeking moppets from the folk tale are all grown up and exceedingly well-armed in “Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters”
Guest Movie Review: Zero Dark Thirty
The controversial new movie about the hunt for bin Laden – and the role torture might have played in that hunt
Guest Movie Review: Jack Reacher
It’s Tom Cruise starring as Lee Child’s super-tall, super-gritty action hero!
Guest Movie Review: The Hobbit
The first part of director Peter Jackson’s long-awaited movie adaptation of “The Hobbit” is finally here
Guest Movie Review: The Sessions
The Oscar race for Best Actor gets a little bit more crowded with the performance of John Hawkes in Ben Lewin’s “The Sessions”
Guest Movie Review: Life of Pi
A boy and a tiger, trapped at sea – the best-selling novel “Life of Pi” gets a movie adaptation by Ang Lee
Guest Movie Review: Rise of the Guardians
Santa Claus … the Easter Bunny … the Sandman … the Tooth Fairy … figures out of children’s story-time band together with Jack Frost to fight an evil that threatens childhood itself
Guest Movie Review: Wreck-It Ralph
The dynamic of beloved old video games gets a surprisingly nuanced treatment in the latest offering from Disney
Guest Movie Review: Cloud Atlas
Time-bending? Gender-bending? Race-bending? “Cloud Atlas” drifts onto Mr. Anderson’s radar.
Guest Movie Review: Alex Cross
The best-selling James Patterson novel, featuring his most popular recurring character, gets a big-screen adaptation
Guest Movie Review: Argo
Director Ben Affleck’s latest, “Argo,” is a real Hollywood movie about a fake Hollywood movie way back in the 1970s
Guest Movie Review: The Master
Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film, featuring a thinly-veiled take on L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology
Guest Movie Review: Dredd
The two Judge Dredds: For fans, Dredd is the hero of his own comic series; a futuristic lawbringer whose stories have been told in the weekly British comic anthology 2000 A.D. since 1977. In the …
Guest Movie Review: Branded
A visually surrealistic new movie about the evils of marketing and advertising run amok.
Guest Movie Review: Lawless
Hollywood Next Big Things – past, present, and future? – share screen-time in a gritty tale of the Prohibition-era South.
Guest Movie Review: The Apparition
The Twilight film series will finally be coming to a close this fall, and with it the free rides of many of the young actors and actresses who made names for themselves in their roles …
Guest Movie Review: ParaNorman
A creepy, touching stop-motion masterpiece from the creators of “Coraline”
Guest Movie Review: The Bourne Legacy
Jeremy Renner steps into Matt Damon’s action-shoes in the latest instalment of the “Bourne” series!
Guest Movie Review: Total Recall
Critics tend to scoff at remakes. To many, these copies represent the worst that Hollywood has to offer, blatantly repeating stories that were successful in the past, rather than risk trying anything new. As movie …
Guest Movie Review: Beasts of the Southern Wild
Aurochs run amok in “Beasts of the Southern Wild.” John C. Anderson reviews.
Guest Movie Review: Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter
Mash-up fiction come to the big screen in “Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter”!
Guest Movie Review: Snow White and the Huntsman
Can the Peter Jackson/Lord of the Rings approach work with the Brothers Grimm? Mr. Anderson tells the tale!
Guest Movie Review: The Chernobyl Diaries
Disaster movie or disaster of a movie? Horror movie or horrible movie? Mr. Anderson disambiguates!
Movie Review: Battleship
Can an enormous budget save an old, defunct board game about an old, defunct class of warship? Ask Mr. Anderson!
Movie Review: Dark Shadows
The latest collaboration between Tim Burton and Johnny Depp is very nearly un-dead on arrival, according to our guest-poster, movie blogger John Anderson!
Tales of the Tales of Monkey Island
Like paintings or fine wine, video games have a lifespan – a messy birth, a heyday of renown, and a decline. Retrace the epic life, death – and afterlife? – of Tales from Monkey Island.
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